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Written by: Jeff GillArticle Overview: If you could do something for just twenty minutes a day that would improve your judgement, reasoning, awareness and perception, and it cost nothing – would you be interested? Might you be even more interested if you knew this would help you make fewer errors, better decisions, be more focused and improve your executive control (ability to achieve goals in changing environments). And what if I also told you that this twenty minute investment in yourself would make you healthier, happier and sexier!
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! Dan Landers, a professor of kinesiology, explains that exercise improves cognitive functioning and benefits can be gained by all ages and every brain. For example Dr Phillip Tomorowski evaluated 43 studies using bouts of vigorous cycling and found that mental performance improved significantly post exercise compared with pre exercise. Dopamine and epinephrine, our bodies neuro-transmitters, enhance communication between key areas of the brain and are shown to climb during physical activity. After exercise other neurochemicals take over to make this effect long lasting. A further study compared a group of subjects who ran for thirty minutes twice a week for six weeks with a group who didn’t run. Tests to measure concentration showed the runners scored significantly better than the non-runners and there were still positive effects twelve weeks after they stopped running. Cameron Herold, CEO of a global business, uses exercise to increase his mental ability “When I’m running I get into a zone that allows me to solve problems” he says. He takes this one stage further and incorporates this thinking into his recruitment policy “We look to hire fit people because we find them more focused and engaged” Many organisations spend considerable amounts of time and money on executive training to enhance the thinking ability of their leaders and managers. It might be argued that this could be better spent on assisting their people to make positive life style changes that would not only improve their ability to achieve goals and think more clearly at work but would also improve their health and reduce stress. In coaching I often find it is the simple and practical steps that achieve significant benefits over time. Many people I coach tell me that as a result of incorporating more exercise into their life style they have achieved a greater sense of well being and can think more clearly at work. For example one client said “By simply walking to work instead of driving I find I am more alert, can concentrate better, do certain jobs in half the time and I’m less ‘ratty’ with my colleagues”.
You can prove this for yourself with the ‘Stroop’ mental function test. Write the following words in capitals in a line like this:
BLUE PURPLE GREEN RED
Write the word blue in green ink, purple in red, green in purple and red in blue. Test yourself before and after your chosen 20 minute physical activity by quickly naming the colour of the ink in which the word is written rather than the colour that the word names – compare before and after! The exercise needs to be quite vigorous for maximum effect, so do work up to this, warm up and stretch before and check with your Doctor if you have concerns. You could even try something a little different for your next business meeting. Rather than sitting round the board room table wrestling with a decision or trying to solve a tricky problem instead try going for a brisk walk together and continuing your meeting on the ‘hoof’!
Jeff Gill ICF Credentialed Coach
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Thanks for the video link on Work-life balance, I found Nigel’s presentation very enjoyable and his style kept your interest all the way thru. I must admit I saw a lot of myself in what’s wrong today and the only thing that was a bit unrealistic is when he said he took a year off work to discover more about family life.
Other than that it was a great video and very thought provoking. There are some very basic things we can all do to look at life differently and value the right things before we are too old to make it happen. I suppose that is why so many of us want to work from home.
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