Think Tank: The Neuro Blog
5 Amazing Products that Boost Energy Levels
You know how it goes. That mid-afternoon slump that turns up right on time; just when you need to muster some energy to finish the day’s work. You can rely on that demotivating fog to come down around 3pm, and you just feel like reaching for yet another coffee to get you through it. Maybe you’re even throwing in sugar or chemical sweeteners. It’s not a healthy solution but it’s a common one - and a self-perpetuating one.
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Ways to Add More Structure to Your Day
Successful time management and the need for increased productivity often call for imposing more structure on our lives, which also offers many benefits, including reduced stress levels, a calmer mind and increased productivity. Including daily structure and organization into your life will not only help you get more accomplished, but will also help to free up more time to do things you enjoy. Here are some tips and tricks to successfully add more structure and productivity to your day.
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Learn How to Become a Morning Person
Don’t you just hate it when you wake up around noon or even later and look at your next-door neighbor or catch up with a friend? You’re only getting ready to start your day, and they’ve already had breakfast and coffee, completed their early-morning exercise, checked their mail, went to the grocery store, and got some of their daily tasks out of the way.
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Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done, or GTD is the name of a productivity technique or time-management method. It's also something most of us want to know how to do effectively every day. Get things done. GTD was created by a man called David Allen, who sells a book titled Getting Things Done. If you feel like you need to read more than a hundred pages on the concept to really feel motivated enough to pick up a fairly simple method, by all means, check out his book. Otherwise stick around and we'll have you up and running in no time.
Learn moreLose Your Mind, Experience The World
Imagine fulfilling the longing and leading the life of razor sharp clarity that we all hunger for while dozing off with a clear mind every single night before you went to bed. Through a glimpse of grim darkness, entering into me is an eternal exhale fortified with a touch of emboldening light. Perhaps a camouflaged invitation to deeper aliveness utterly profound and sobering in its simplicity, is the invaluable gift of being unanticipatedly shaken into living.
Learn more5 Habits For Boosting Your Brain Power
While caffeine and other energy boosters are a pretty convenient pick-me-up for your cognitive function, for longer lasting benefits to your brain you will need to turn to making some positive changes in your life. Here are five of the brain boosting habits you can build that will have the greatest effect, as well as are the easiest to adopt.
Learn more5 Ways to Deal With Your Difficult Boss
We’ve all had a difficult boss at least once. It goes with the territory of working for others, and difficult bosses seem to be more prevalent within corporations. This may be down to competition, status fixation, and ego inflation correlating with salary inflation. Whatever the reason, having a difficult boss is a tricky thing to navigate and can drain your energy. Much as you might be itching to...
Learn moreI Am Dying, and So Are You.
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, my mortality I accept. I am dying. So are you. To embrace death is to embrace life. I acknowledge that I am dying every moment, therefore, I am living every moment. I accept and am hyper-aware of the possibility of my inevitable death at any moment with astonishing serenity.
Learn moreHow Does Caffeine Affect Energy Metabolism throughout the Brain?
The single most widely used “psychoactive” drug in America and probably the world is caffeine. Caffeine is the best friend of desperate students, determined workers and many of the greatest minds this world has known. Why is it that we reach for a cup of joe when we feel our last vestiges of endurance flitting away?
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