Tag: volunteering

Every week I do a video blog (of VLOG). This week I talked about rest.

When I started this,  I was very scared of putting myself on video, so I got the courage and put myself in the arena, killing a lot of bad self talk.This gives me the chance to work on my communication skills, start a new medium, and experiment!

Once a week, after I have thought about them, I will give them a day here on the blog.

These aren’t just promotion posts (although they are, please watch and share 🙂 ) I want to take the time to break them down and try to clarify what I want to communicate and the tactical things I learned through doing.

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What I Wanted To Communicate About Rest

Rest is important. We often put it off, relying on the idea that “you sleep when your dead”. This puts us at a serious disadvantage. Our minds don’t grow when we don’t let them recharge.

I hit on three bullet points

• Slowing down at work to give yourself the mental room to deal with new, different types of stress
• Volunteering, allows you to rest some of the other muscles you train often (through work).
• Sleep. We often don’t get enough of it.

What I Learned Doing This Video

• Don’t use auto focus, it makes the picture jarring (Thanks Wale!)
• I can use editing software on my phone to learn the basics.
• It’s ok to cut things up, and make mistakes. Better to go long then to go short.

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