I am a professional problem solver enthusiast dealing with meetings, battling my inbox and task list every day all to help in doing my part to design and develop world-class web sites. My work life is awesome and so is my personal life. I am blessed with a great wife and two awesome little dudes and another little dude on the way in April. I owe it to my family to work just as hard for them when I come home as I do my team and our clients. The problem is when I come home I am typically on the edge of being mentally wiped out.
Now being caffeine free for some seven years I have been in search of the holy grail of how to re-energize. I have read countless articles about sleep optimization with many triangulating the point of how people should avoid naps after 3:00 PM. I decided to put the expert advice aside and starting experimenting and have found a winning combination. For the past couple of months almost every work day, I duck out for 15 minutes when I come home. I fire up my bedroom fan on high speed to create some nice, neutral white noise, put on my face mask (which I have been made fun for wearing), set my iPhone timer for 15 minutes…
…stretch out and close my eyes. After taking 20 deep breaths I think happy grateful thoughts and chill. When my alarm sounds (I like the Bell Tower sound), I quickly shake off the rested state and am ready to go. Typically working a couple of hours each night after reading time, I glide through with a nice energy buzz. Where before I had to fight getting in front of a computer again, I have no issue. Oh, and I also sleep great at night.
In summary, this web developer agency chief recommends learning from computers and rebooting when things start running sluggish.
Steve C. Kahle
Managing Principal
White Lion Internet Agency