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How digital marketing can increase your sales

How has digital marketing changed over the years, and how does it help businesses sell more products or services today

How to Succeed at Working From Home

Here are few brain hacks to help you get more done when you work from home

 Work-From-Home Brain Hacks

1. Wake Up to Sunlight. Your eyes are actually an extension of your brain. They detect threats and rewards. They are also a conduit for light, which is essential to the brain. When natural light is perceived, it has a calming effect on the parts of the brain that affect mood and stress response. In addition, light actually resets and regulates the rhythmic systems of our brains, including our circadian and ultradian rhythms. When you get sunlight in your eyes first thing in the morning, it actually sets the timer for the sleep hormone, melatonin, to release at night. Sleep is essential for focus and motivation.
2. Forward Ambulation. Moving your body, under your own energy and in a forward direction, otherwise known as walking, creates something called optic flow, which reduces activity in the amygdala. That's the part of your brain that lights up and fires out the stress response you feel in your body, like anxiety, and ultimately shut down and retreats (procrastination). Taking a morning walk can help set a lower baseline for stress for the day and will help you maintain focus throughout the day.
3. Break Down Tasks and Race the Clock. In my workshop Focused AF, we use complete short bursts of focused work. This does three things:
   • Breaking your tasks down into smaller steps allows your brain to stop overthinking and stay focused on completing the task.
   • There is good stress and bad stress. Setting a timer actually provides the brain with good stress, putting your focus on the clock, and letting your subconscious do what it does best.
   • Our energy and focus actually come in waves, known as an ultradian rhythm. Working for 45-minute intervals, strategically timed during your ultradian cycle, can help you optimize your focus and energy usage during the most important tasks.
   1. Ditch the To-Do List in Favor of an EOD Brain Dump. At the end of your work day, or before switching between major tasks or projects, do a brain dump. Our brains hate open loops.
      1. This is also why multitasking is the least effective strategy for reducing stress and increasing productivity, and why to-do lists don’t actually work.
      2. Pay Yourself First. Just like the best way to save money is to pay yourself first, the best way to save time is to take a little off the top for yourself. How you spend the first hour of your day will have the biggest impact on your energy and mood, as well as your ability to focus and actually get stuff done. A morning routine is key. If you want a good one that is designed to balance your dopamine, cortisol, and serotonin levels, then check on my website.

      How is staying at home going to improve your human connections at work? When you work from home effectively and efficiently, suddenly your relationship with your boss improves. The time in the office can be focused more on building more human connections and collaborations.Click here to learn more.

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