What To Do When Tiredness Creeps In

It’s a fact in life. Unless you’re some machine with no feeling of mental or physical strain, you’re gonna get tired. This tiredness can come in any form - the most usual of that being the physical limits that you experience when you’re zonked out. Right now, I’m even finding it hard to type this post out - that’s the extent of my fatigue.

But as an entrepreneur, this feeling can be dangerous. Especially if you run online businesses. This is because your hands are needed to write those all important emails to your programmer, those all important blog posts and check those all important bank balances and earnings accounts. Tiredness in short can be damaging.

Thankfully though for us humans, there is a cure for fatigue…rest. By resting, we replenish our energy and normally catching 40 winks can help to give you new life and help you to carry on with whatever work you’re doing. The damaging part to business, comes in when this tiredness can extend over 12, 24 or even 48 hours. Oh no!

So, here are a few tips to help avoid tiredness in the afternoon and early evening - a time which is especially crucial for us internet webbies in the UK who wait for the Americans to wake up before conducting business! Note that there may be no right answer, but the following have helped me personally from day to day:

1. Have a good night’s rest: In my experience, I need at least 8 hours for me to wake up feeling invigorated and fresh and to not want to curl up and go back to sleep.

2. Try not to have a huge lunch: Yes, you probably all know this one, but having a full blown 3 course meal at midday can make you feel extremely lethargic and will probably make you want to have a nap - so try to have a little bite to eat and have your main meal in the evening.

3. Exercise: Again, I could probably write another post on this - in fact, I already have done here. Exercise is extremely important to help circulate blood to different parts of your body. Sure, you may feel tired after an extreme workout, but a gentle 30 minute jog or walk can help new ideas to pop into your head or can help clear your head from stresses and strains.

4. Take a break: I’m not saying that you should nap, but take half an hour to lay out in front of the Tele, watch a documentary on wildlife, or read that special book you’ve been wanting to get a few chapters of.

These are just a few, so feel free to add some tips of your own.

If you can’t cure your tiredness throughout the day - and you just may not be able to reduce fatigue, then record what times of the day you feel most active. You must try and work and be productive as much as possible in that time so that you can afford to relax a little when you are knackered.

Tiredness can be a killer, for you and your business - but if you follow a few steps, exercise well and eat properly, then you should be able to last throughout the day without any breaks in between.

Boosting Online Productivity: Google Reader

Since I started blogging last year, I always had the habit of going to the individual sites to see whether the author had updated his/her blog. The reasons were manyfold:

• I love to be in the “blogging environment”. The design of the blog and all the other sidebar elements we usually have really helps me to understand what the person’s writing about and helps me to engage in the article.
• Whilst I am on the web page, commenting is also a heck of a lot easier as I don’t have to open up new tabs on Firefox and there won’t be any unnecessary loading times.
• Feed readers always gave me the creeps because they were always so cold to look at, with no element of fun - and I had regularly heard the error stories about how Bloglines kept all everything as “Not read”.

I knew however, that this method of visiting a lot of sites and waiting for load times was causing a huge wastage of time. There must be an easier way I thought - and there was/is - feed readers.

As mentioned, I did try out Bloglines for a bit. For all you guys who havn’t experimented in the world of feeds, Bloglines is an online aggregator that autmatically grabs the latest action from your favourite blogs. There are also desktop-based readers for you Outlook junkies out there such as Newsgator and Feed Demon.

Things didn’t go too well. The interface was ugly, sometimes the posts remained unread even though I had “read” them several times, and everything was too clunky and too slow to load. My first venture into the world of RSS therefore was short-lived and I soon returned to checking sites through my list of bookmarks on Firefox.

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