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9 Micro-Rest Practices to Prevent Mid-Day Remote Burnout is the ultimate strategy for staying energized without needing a 20-minute nap.

In this video, I dive into 9 Micro-Rest Practices to Prevent Mid-Day Remote Burnout that you can do right at your desk in 60 seconds or less.

Working from home in 2026 means the lines between work and life are blurrier than ever.

If you feel "fried" by lunch, it’s not a lack of caffeine—it’s a lack of micro-recovery.

Quick hacks you can do today!

Here is a video on 10 steps to find the perfect work-from-home job for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlkKnzl806E

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00:00so what if the secret to be more productive was not just grinding harder and longer more hours but
00:08really just a series of micro rests so today I want to go over nine ideas that I think it really
00:16is really cool they can help you be more productive with a work-from-home job remote
00:21jobs something like that the first one and this is the the best advice I ever got was to make a
00:28schedule and just stick to it okay and this is how it works I would say it depends on what type of
00:35work-from-home job you do if you do sales if you do content creation affiliate marketing blogging
00:40video creation or anything like that where you control your schedule you want to to be disciplined
00:49enough to create a schedule now how it works is this first you put on the hat of a business owner
00:53and you create a schedule and it'll be crazy you want to work maybe 90 hours a week you'll burn out
01:00and then what you do is you put on the hats of somebody's an employee and you create a schedule
01:05and you'll probably want to work like like no hours like four hours a week or two hours or some crazy
01:12number then what you have to do is you have to make them both happy and you have to schedule time off as
01:17well and time when you just stop working it's so hard for me I get in this groove this zone I'm like
01:24oh yeah stop and the next day boom I get I'm just I can't wait to get into it and it's just a killer
01:32advice whatever you're doing now obviously some jobs are different but if you create your own schedule
01:37highly recommend it uh okay uh next up is the 2020-20 rule and I suck at this like hardcore what this means
01:46is every 20 seconds if you you look at something 20 feet away uh for 20 seconds to prevent eye strain
01:55and I don't do this but what I do is every hour I force myself and it's so hard to get up walk around look at
02:05something I stretch my stretch my arms my fingers my wrist my neck and I walk around I stretch my eyes as well
02:12so I kind of combine everything once um you know you could do something like every 30 minutes to do it
02:18but every I think 20 seconds that's wrong maybe that's 20 minutes every 20 minutes I might have
02:27messed up that there's no every 20 seconds whoops spelling mistake I just realized that okay there you go
02:3420 minutes uh okay walk around yeah so wherever you you know get the blood moving walk around my house
02:41if it's nasty outside I do that uh sometimes I do these deep breathing exercises do some arms
02:47exercises as well I kind of combine a little bit of everything um okay body weight movements yes I mean
02:55walking around only do so much you know I think it's really good every day to schedule to get your
03:01heartbeat up and I try to do a little bit swimming jogging tennis or if it's really nasty outside and you
03:08don't want to go outside you burpees and burpees are amazing try to do 10 of them with this is a
03:14burpee you squat down and you do a plank you jump back up jump forward and you do a jump and then you
03:22jump up right if you do 10 of them your heartbeat will go up and if it's nasty outside and you want
03:27to work out you do a few burpees boom more blood to your brain to everywhere right it's an amazing thing
03:35but what I try to do is I try to do this in the morning or in the afternoons I go swimming or
03:39jogging or I do something that gets my heartbeat up okay uh tie your desk or workspace uh yeah I mean
03:47my whole room here is completely empty I love it you know my table it has some stuff on it but uh you
03:54know mostly it's empty too and this helps you uh gives you a sense of calm you know creative feelings
04:00stuff like that uh oh another killer idea is get rid of notifications on your phone you know no
04:07notifications no updates no dinging danging that distract you that takes you from that groove and
04:13that that zone that you're doing all right uh fluids okay you may be mentally throwing the tomato at me
04:20like yeah of course the fluids but you'd be surprised how many people forget about it uh you know I have a
04:24family member who's always tired and I'm like will these you drink enough water it's like oh yeah so you
04:30know there you go lots of water so you don't get to keep you energized uh switch tasks this helps me
04:36sometimes you know my brain can only go for so long before I get bored uh so switching tasks you know
04:43throughout the day um or whatever can can help you re-energize yourself and this depends on what
04:48you're doing right I'll just give you an example if you're doing something like say with like writing
04:53like blogging or video you can take a break and do some keyword keyword research on what keywords you
05:01want to go after you could go do some learning you know for a little bit and then come back you know
05:06you kind of mix it up and uh you know to me it really helps me it keeps me energized so I keep going
05:12and I do a lot of different tasks too so I think it helps me uh okay uh this one sounds super cheesy
05:21but I've never tried this but I think it's a great idea is write down three wins of the day
05:27and again you know it's studies show that it gives you a dopamine effect you know natural high
05:34uh and that dopamine can increase motivation willingness to continue it probably helps the
05:41most when you're mentally fatigued and you just want to quit you know we've all been there like
05:45how am I even doing why am I doing this uh but there's also a lot more benefits as well
05:50because it reinforces a sense of progress that builds confidence you know helps buffer against
05:55burnout and frustration we've all been there uh makes your brain feel less overloaded trains your
06:02brain to notice progress it helps interrupt negative thought spirals and helps your sex life
06:10I'm just joking put that in there see if anybody's even reading what I'm saying on this post uh yeah
06:16next one is the power nap I don't do this at all but I think this is so cool uh I didn't know this but
06:22even just closing your eyes in the middle of the day of the afternoon can be beneficial
06:27and a study found that just 15 minutes of waking rest you know you're not sleeping you just close
06:33your eyes you're chilling after you know learning improved compared to doing a distraction task
06:40during that same time uh so yeah it helps memory constant consolidation if I can say that word right
06:50uh even without sleep and that's really cool so there's some ideas uh on how to uh you know just
06:57get more energy when you're doing a desk job at home or whatever you know to just you know so that
07:03you could well be happy and be more productive uh hope is entertaining and cool if you want more or
07:11maybe like hey you know I really want to do like a like a work from home job you know but how I find
07:15these jobs and you know a good one that I enjoy it that you know obviously pay is important but you have
07:21to enjoy what you do when you're passionate about it how I find that and I actually created a video
07:26that gives you nine steps on how to find you know a work from home job that that's legit that's that
07:33does pay and that you enjoy as well as you know I there's some resources on how to find it and
07:39avoid scams and if you want to check that video out I'll put the link somewhere around here and in
07:45this thing it's down there actually or down in the description as well and you can click on I'll put
07:51there maybe it may help you okay anyways you have a great rest of your day bye
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