14 Oct 09 Stay Awake Through Boring Meetings

Being tired in a meeting that seems senseless can be bad. Your tiredness could lead to you missing some vital info, missing out on an opportunity to stand out, or even falling asleep. There probably isn’t any worse impression you can leave on somebody’s mind, beyond falling asleep. So tiredness is severely bad, and could do damage to your career. Which is why these tips will help you stay fresh, awake, and ready to contribute to any meeting:

-Make sure you get enough oxygen. Typically when you are ready to go to sleep at night your body slows down the breathing process. Because you’re not doing any activity you take fewer, deeper breaths, which helps to lull you to sleep. If you’re feeling tired make sure to keep your breathing up, oxygenating your muscles and helping them feel awake. A few quick deep breaths should do the trick.

-If the meeting is one of those you have to be there, but nothing really important happens affairs, the task of staying awake can be especially daunting. Try taking pen and paper and make a list of something you have to do later. Or make a list of things you’d like to do this week, or after work. Anything to get your brain thinking. Plus those around you will just see that you’re taking notes on the meeting, so you look informed and you stay awake.

-Bring a bottle of water with you, and if you’re feeling tired take a few sips. Or even chew some gum quietly. Anything to get your body moving and using energy. Both of which will help to keep you awake.

-Finally, if you just can’t keep yourself going, then at an appropriate moment excuse yourself. Excusing yourself is a much better solution than risking falling asleep. The ultimate goal here is to not look slack enough to fall asleep at work, and excusing yourself accomplishes that, even if you anger a few folks in the process.

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26 Jun 09 Constantly Creating New Ideas And Topics

When your profession falls into writing, no matter what sort of writing it is that you do, the demand for coming up with new ideas is always very, very high. Therein lay the problem of keeping up on that demand with new relevant ideas to write about. Which is why you need to make sure you’re well aware of the many tactics writers use to help them come up with new ideas constantly. Just remember, this is a skill that will take a lot of practice to really maintain properly, but keep at it and you’ll find yourself having more new ideas that you’ll ever know what to do with.

One of the most common methods, and one that you should most definitely be employing already, is to keep an idea notepad with you at all times. Not necessarily an actual pen and paper mini notebook, but something to function as such. If you have a smart phone, like an iPhone or Blackberry, you can use their note taking features to quickly jot down anything that pops into your head. This keeps you ahead of the game with a wealth of ideas that you can look to later, when you find yourself in need.

Read. Can’t stress that one enough. The more you put your energy towards learning new things, or reading new ideas, whether through books or magazines or online articles, the more information you’re taking in that you can call upon at a later date. Extraordinarily useful when coming up with a new topic to write about.

Find a friend or colleague to bounce a few ideas off. Let them know about the concept and tell them some things you were considering, or ways you want to approach writing about the idea. The input they have could help you guide yourself into a brilliant new direction you couldn’t have thought of on your own.

If you find yourself struggling to think of anything while sitting at your desk, take a break. Go outside for a few minutes, get some fresh air and clear your head. You’ll find yourself feeling much more refreshed, and after wicking away the fatigue, you’ll be in a much better place to re-energize your thinking.

Finally, as a last resort, twist around another idea you’ve already read about or heard about. If you can’t find an idea all to your own, borrow someone else’s. Don’t just rehash an article or book that you’ve read before of course. But take what you learned there, or the basic concept, and apply it to your own outlook, and your own unique writing voice to manufacture an entirely new piece of work.

Tags: Blackberry, Colleague, Desk, Few Minutes, Fresh Air, Game, Iphone, Jot Down, Magazines, Matter What Sort, Mini Notebook, New Books, New Direction, Notepad, Pen And Paper, Profession, Reading Books, Relevant Ideas, Smart Phone

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