7/6/2023 0 Comments Intensity isThe obvious difference is that, in the latter case, she’d have to give herself permission to stop working, and that, weirdly, is going to take more discipline for her to do (to use her slow practices) than to work. I chose to remind her that if she could use her timers to work, she could use timers to not work. On the subject of timers, I happen to know she uses timers for her work. The latter is better for most people after they have been practicing slow productivity for a while, but when folks are addicted to checking off tasks, it’s typically better to start with timers. She’s still exploring whether it’ll be best for her personally to set a timer to initiate her slow practices and self-care or to sense when she’s needing to do one of these practices between tasks. Instead of cutting work, I asked her “what would you do if I asked you to be 15% slower?” We brainstormed a few “slow practices,” she might do in 5-10 minutes, like: She’d work four days, just as intensely, and end up just as worn out. So, in her circumstances, cutting an additional day of work wouldn’t make her better off and would create a lot of stress to get there. (We’re working through the way her upper limit responses have gone guerrilla.) She’s happy and doesn’t want much, which itself has become a challenge for her. Her health is great and far improved than when we started. She has a new perfect-for-her romantic partner. Her business is working well, she’s getting the right clients, and she loves the work that she does. This has the net result of them being just as stressed about the work, no matter how much work is removed from their plate.Īn additional part about this client’s scenario is that, partially because of the work we’ve done together, everything is great for her right now. Even if/when we remove 25% of the work from their plate, the typical move among these folks is to then cut the amount of time they give themselves to do the work by 25%. I pointed out that a really common pattern and a byproduct of efficiency crankers are they’re exhausted no matter how much actual work is on their plate. Deep down it was about work intensity, or how stressful it was for her to be working “at 100% efficiency” for 5-6 hours a day. Please refer to the exercise sections of this website before prescribing target heart rates to patients.A client recently wanted to problem-solve for working four days a week, but when she started explaining the problem, it wasn’t about the load of her days or how many days a week she worked. For this reason, alternative measures of exercise intensity may be more appropriate. Medications such as beta blockers directly impact upon an individual’s heart rate.
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