12 tasks done by Killer Employers by noon “Early birds are generally happier than night owls,” was suggested by a recent study published in an American Psychological Association journal “Emotion”. More than 700 employees were surveyed who were between the ages of 17 and 79 and were questioned about their emotional state, health and preferred time of the day. This research revealed that self-professed “morning people” felt much happier that the night owls and the reason behind this could be the society catering the morning person’s schedule. Working “9-to-5” is considered as a standard shift for many Americans and is more than an expression. The employees rising with the sun are the most productive employees in the office revels the research. Why not be like them? …Want to be a killer employee? Then follow the 12 tasks to be completed before noon… 1. Make a list of the woks to be done a day before 2. Utilize the time, rest for the complete night 3. “No” to snooze please!!! 4. Exercise for an active day 5. Practice a morning ritual 6. Breakfast is a must 7. Be in time for the office 8. Do check in with the boss and/or employees 9. Begin with the big and challenging projects 10. Avoid morning meetings 11. Make up time to follow up the messages 12. Take a mid-morning break Make a list of the woks to be done a day before A list of the works to be done helps many in completing their tasks but most of them do not know when to compose it. The best time to prepare a to-do list is the night before, says Andrew Jensen, a business efficiency consultant with Sozo firm in Shrewsbury. He also adds that, “few of the employees prefer preparing a to-do list in the morning, but this causes loss of their office time in preparing the to-do list.” ... ... middle of paper ... ...ime as the employees are at their peaks during mornings. Make up time to follow up the messages Checking the emails for every couple of minutes would take time away from the task you are doing, thus schedule a specific time to check and respond to the emails you receive. Try and do it at the top of each hour to make sure that clients and colleagues receive prompt responses from you. Take a mid-break “Get up and stretch your legs,” or be seated and indulge in browsing. Jensen says it’s good to zone out on face book and twitter or to send a personal text. It’s good to take a 10 minute break for every one or two hours. Companies that do not encourage using of social sites during working hours can find it will be detrimental. Allowing the employees to have a break gives employee satisfaction. “The best employees respect the employer’s time,” says Jensen.
Previous generations have a strong belief of keeping work and home life separate; that work is for work and home is for play (Rampell, 2011, para 21). Today’s professionals do not seem to abide by similar beliefs, constantly crossing the borders of one into the other. While many recognize this as an issue that could result in employees being less productive, it has actually resulted in them accepting that their work may run late into the evening or even into the weekend. I agree with this completely in that I grew up being taught that business is business and personal is personal; you leave your home life at the door. But now times have changed, and my weekends are no longer dedicated to my home life, but for work, because I attend classes during the week. Also, in my line of work in the Allied Health industry, it is a requirement to work off hours. Long gone are the days of working nine to five, Monday through Friday; technology and the demand of wanting affairs done and done as soon as possible, has made it so the “work week” is now 24-7. “Jon Della Volpe, the director of polling at Harvard Institute of Politics, said, ‘Some experts also believe that today’s young people are better at quickly switching from one task to another, given their exposure to so many stimuli during their childhood and adolescence’” (Rampbell,
“I’m sorry I am late, I overslept” or “I can’t make morning appointments, I have a hard time waking up in the morning.” These are the infamous excuses and reasoning’s I have abused time after time for my repetitive failure to accept the help my alarm clock offers every morning. For the longest time, I have shared a deep passion with sleeping in. However, this passionate habit of mine has cost me a lot of losses from losing responsibilities that were entrusted to me as well as losing valuable time each day. Having accustomed myself to this comfortable habit, I have neglected the fact that I am being given twenty-four glorious hours each day to accommodate my responsibilities as a human being. With each day wasted, I tend to live a more stress filled lifestyle because after I wake up each afternoon, I anxiously spend the remaining hours of my day trying to make up for lost time. After being fed up with my delayed lifestyle, I had no one to blame but myself. To help me battle my habitual sleeping in, I turned to the help of Laura Vanderkam’s book, What The Most Successful People Do before Breakfast.
Has the thought ever crossed your mind that you could be gunned down while tabulating this month’s sales figures, attending a working review of a future briefing or simply having coffee with a co-worker while you talk about the upcoming weekends plans? Perhaps it should, it crossed my mind several times after listening on the phone to the panic, screams and faint sound of gunfire occurred at the Washington Navy Yard. Despite my training and years of experience it seems that retirement has dulled my sight somewhat, I put those lenses back on a took a hard look at the building I work in between 40-50 hours a week a now see that it is a potential slaughterhouse. A design accentuated by limited exits within sight of one another, closed off office spaces and limited internal locks would provide an advantages to an active shooter with even limited skill.
School start times have been receiving attention across the nation since the mid-1990s (Editorial). Many school districts have considered the benefits of later start times, others have already made the leap of starting classes later in the day, while others are still reluctant to change schedules, questioning if there is any noticeable difference in academic achievement to be seen. However, almost all the school districts that have made changes thus far have reported benefits not only in student performance and achievement, but also in overall student attitude (Gormly). The reason for this is linked to teenagers’ circadian rhythm: the “biological rhythm that governs our sleep-wake cycles” (Carrell 4). In order for students to achieve academic success, schools should push back start times to better accommodate teenagers’ circadian rhythm.
Boergers, who is also co-director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, said these finding have important implications for public policy. “The result of the study add to a growing body of research demonstrating important health benefits of later school start times for adolescents,” she said. “If we more closely align school schedules with adolescents circadian rhythms and sleep needs, we will have students who are more happier, alert, and better prepared to learn.”
Gerald Matthews, D. Roy Davies, and Jackie L. Lees conducted a series of three experiments to test this Eysenck’s arousal hypothesis of introversion and extraversion. The first of the experiments, which consisted of two parts (A and B) is most germane to this argument. According to Eysenck’s hypothesis, extraverts are low in arousal and therefore should seek stimulation in the morning. However, in accordance to Matthew’s experiment, the opposite actually happens. In part A of this experiment, the participants were 50 males and 50 females ranging in age from 18 to 36 with normal vision. ...
“Beware the Bareness of a busy life.” This quote is from the philosopher, Socrates. I feel that constantly being busy could be a distraction from some of the most beautiful things in life. Ever heard the expression “Stop and smell the roses?” This expression is about the idea that busyness can cause the worker to miss some of the little joys in life. Most people get caught in routines, trying to pack our schedule as full as we can make it. I’m as guilty as any, and it has caused me to miss spending time with some of the most beautiful people in my life. Not too long ago, I became obsessed with the idea of social media. I checked it constantly, and it took away from my quality time with some really great people in my life. If I had only been more self-aware like I am now about social media, I would’ve made a change back then. Now all my social medias are in a folder on my phone, titled “Be Present.” This has helped me not make myself busy by silly posts on Facebook, compare myself to other people and their pages, and really become more self-aware about my problem of desiring an empty, busy lifestyle. I feel like it’s such an easy trap to fall into, and everyone needs to beware of what a blessing and a curse social medias can be. I think that it is important to take a break from work occasionally, rest, and
Furthermore, the article “Benefits of Later School Start Times” also states, “adolescents who do not achieve sufficient sleep are more irritable and depressed, and are at a greater risk of suicide attempts than
“74.2% of the sample were women, and 75% were pursuing a bachelor 's degree. 59.0% worked and studied part-time, 34.1% were full-time students. 42% reported insomnia symptoms, and 18% had clinically significant symptoms” (Hairston et al., 2016). Out of the sample 60% were reported to be neither type, 33.3% were evening type, and 10.6% were morning type. Women had higher scores on the R-MEQ component, revealing that more women were morning type. In every other component of the questionnaire there was no difference in gender. People who were morning types procrastinated less, and had less trouble sleeping, and the two measures did not correlate; the same went or those who were neither type. However, in evening types procrastination, trouble sleeping, rumination, and negative affect did correlate. Based upon the findings evening type was associated with more trouble sleeping, negative affect, procrastination, and rumination (Hairston et al., 2016). Like hypothesised, negative affect and rumination were linked to
It is said that on average a college student should get at least 8 hours of sleep. In today’s society an average college student gets only about 6 hours of sleep at night. This is mainly because students are up late studying, there is too much noise in the dorm halls, something is troubling one’s mind, etc. “Stress about school and life keeps 68 percent of college students awake at night- 20 percent of them at least once a week.”(Lund) Majority of college students have an irregular sleep pattern during the week. Because of this many of the students try to make up missed time sleeping longer hours during the weekend. By doing this, the students’ mess up their “internal body clock”. “This erratic pattern can take a toll on students’ well-being, especially when coffee and high caffeine energy drinks are added to the mix.” (Witman, 2012) The fact that their body clocks must get used to a different routine may ...
Historical archives record famous short sleepers and notable insomniacs—some accounts reliable, some not. When Benjamin Franklin counseled, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” he was using sleep habits to symbolize his pragmatism. Important public policy issues have arisen in our modern 24-hour society, where it is crucial to weigh the value of sleep versus wakefulness. Scientific knowledge about sleep is currently insufficient to resolve the political and academic debates raging about how much and when people should sleep. These issues affect almost everybody, from the shift worker to the international traveler, from the physician to the policy maker, from the anthropologist to the student preparing for an exam.
With the purpose of practice strong routine people together with boosting their overall healthiness and disciplined attitudes and avoiding unwholesome diseases and unwarranted complications, one should get up early in the morning.
People need to appreciate that they can wake up in the morning to arrive at their job, or even at school.
According to the psychology today article, Amie Gordon stated that these people feel more “irritable, angry, hostile and more depressed” (Up all night). This is because sleep loss doesn’t allow the body to get all of the necessary rest it needs. Each day a person gets less sleep, is further they fall behind on sleep. In another article, Gretchen Rubin explained how she feels like her mornings are a lot less hectic by getting up earlier. She stated that “I love the light, and the quiet, and the sense of focus and freedom from interruption that she has during that hour” (Be happier-wake up earlier). By reading these two articles, I learned the importance of getting a good amount of sleep. It means going to bed earlier at night, so that I will be able to wake up
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