Empty the load at the end of the day
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:37PM 
The overwhelm of back to back meetings is real. So. Much. Content. Words and questions and people and ideas and still more meetings.
Our cognitive load takes a beating as we shove more information in to our already overloaded brain. It’s hard work.
In between meetings is the ideal time to pause, review, move and have a kind of ‘reset’, ready for the next meeting.
Deliberately.
And then at the end of the day, another pause. Review and clear the slate for the transition to social, family or home activities.
Otherwise it can get messy and the overloaded feeling takes longer to process naturally, automatically, organically. Do it deliberately.
Empty the load - between meetings if you can; and absolutely at the end of the working day. (And the end of the week too!)
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