Micro-Resets Can Help with Work-Day Stress

How often do you find yourself feeling the weight of your agenda stressing you out, and, counterproductively, distracting you from the task you’re currently working on? One of the best ways to power through and stay on track is to step away and take a minute to get your stress back under control. 

Why These Micro-Resets Work

It is almost shocking how well taking a short break can help moderate your body’s cortisol, the hormone that is intended to enable the fight-or-flight response, as well as giving your brain the chance to process information. All of this will help your team be more productive and leave them more capable of coming up with creative and thoughtful solutions to problems and going about them with renewed productivity.

How You Can Incorporate Micro-Resets into Your Workday

Here are some simple tips to help you embrace these brief breaks:

• Consider your existing habits and add a reset into them - If you like to get a snack in the middle of the workday, or tend to use the restroom around a given time, consciously try to incorporate a micro-reset into your process. In order to get the consistency you need to establish a new habit, small tweaks will be easier to sustain than an entirely new routine.
• Remind yourself about your resets - The thing about habits is that we tend to go on autopilot as we do them—it’s half the reason it can be challenging to change them or give them up. Until you get into a pattern, put up sticky notes or set a phone alarm that will prompt you to take a moment and refocus.
• Buddy up - Accountability makes it a lot easier to stick to a goal. Recruit the help of a coworker to join you in adopting your new habit and—if you can’t keep an eye out for one another—reporting back to each other.

Pausing for One Minute Can Enhance Many, Many More

Try incorporating some into your workday, and see how much more productive it makes you. Naturally, this isn’t the only way to help you accomplish more in your time. We can equip your business with the tools and technologies to boost your productivity in other ways.

Contact Macro Systems to learn more about what we can do for you. Give us a call at 703-359-9211.