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         <summary>Everyone has it once a while: A bad night's sleep. Here I attempt to list useful tips how to deal with it.. .....to read on please visit my site.</summary>
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-                <h1>After a bad night's sleep</h1>
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+<h1>After a bad night's sleep</h1>
 <p class="quote"><i>Published by Paul at 2022-09-30</i></p>
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 <p>Everyone has it once a while: A bad night's sleep. Here I attempt to list useful tips how to deal with it.</p>
 <h2>Don't take the day off</h2>
 <p>I don't recommend taking a day off after not having slept enough the previous night. That's, in my opinion, a waste of my holiday allowance. I wouldn't be able to enjoy my free time anyway, so why not just work? For an IT Engineer, there's still a way to be very (sometimes even more) productive even with half or less of the concentration power! (read on). </p>
+<h2>Start work early</h2>
+<p>Probably I am already awake in the early morning and am unable to fall asleep again. My strategy here is to "attack": Start work early but finish off earlier. The early bird will also encounter fewer distractions from other colleagues.</p>
 <h2>Sweat the small stuff</h2>
 <p>For me, there's never a shortage of small items to work off my list. Most of these items don't require my full concentration power and I will be happy to get them off my list so that the next day, after a good night's sleep, I can go back to focused deep work with full concentration powers at hand.</p>
 <p>These small items can be:</p>
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 <li>Do any kind of boring paper work (e.g. work tracking or go through mandatory trainings I already know about but regulations tell me that I have to go through them).</li>
 <li>Catching up with the journal and mark off all trivial action items (e.g. respond that one colleague with that specific piece of information he asked a couple of days ago, write a short email with a question I wondered about the previous day but run out of time last week, check out that interesting resource a colleague recommended...)</li>
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-<h2>Find the flow</h2>
+<h2>Enter the flow state </h2>
 <p>I personally find it quite easy to enter the "flow state" after a bad night's sleep. All what I need to do is to put on some ambient music (preferably instrumental chill house) and just start working on a ticket.</p>
 <h2>Reschedule meetings</h2>
 <p>I find it difficult to engage in discussions and meetings after a bad night's sleep. I still attend the meetings I am invited to as a participant, but will reschedule all meetings I am the main driver for. This, unfortunately, also includes interviews. Interviews require full concentration power. So for interviews I would find another person to step in for me or ask to completely reschedule. All my other meetings I would reschedule for a different day. Everything else wouldn't make it justice and would waste everyone's time!</p>
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 <h2>Fast</h2>
 <p>I don't eat breakfast and I don't eat lunch on these days. I only have dinner. Not eating means that my mind doesn't get foggy and I keep up the work momentum. This is called intermittent fasting which helps to keep the weight under control and boosts the concentration power a bit. Furthermore, intermittent fasting is healthy.</p>
 <h2>Strech </h2>
-<p>I won't have enough energy for serious physical exercise on those days, but a 30 to 60 minute stretching session can make the day. Stretching will even hurt less while suffering sleep deprivation ;-)</p>
+<p>I won't have enough energy for serious physical exercise on those days, but a 30 to 60 minute stretching session can make the day. Stretching will even hurt less while suffering from sleep deprivation ;-)</p>
 <h2>Walk </h2>
 <p>I will have enough energy for one or two good walks, though (~10k steps for the day in total). Walking is healthy and the time can be used to listen to an interesting work-related podcast (so even something new could be learned). The available concentration power might not be enough for a more difficult audio book, though. Alternatively, I just listen to music during the walks. Also, I try to catch the bright sunlight during the walks. </p>
 <h2>Red Bull</h2>
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 <h2>Don't take anything personally</h2>
 <p>It's much more difficult to keep the mind "under control" in this state. Every tiny annoyance has the potential to make someone angry and this could reflect to the work colleagues. I attempt to go with a positive attitude into the day, to always smile and to be polite to my family all of the work colleagues. Don't let anything drop out to the people next, they don't deserve it as they didn't do anything wrong! Also, remember, it can't be controlled all. So it's time to let go of the annoyances for the day.</p>
 <h2>Meditate</h2>
-<p>Sometimes it helps me to meditate for 10 minutes, that helps me to keep the good mode. That, however, works only when I manage not to forget to meditate. ;-) Meditation must nothing be fancy. </p>
+<p>Sometimes it helps me to meditate for 10 minutes, that helps me to keep the good mode. That, however, works only when I manage not to forget to meditate. ;-) </p>
+<p>Meditation must nothing be fancy. It can be just lying on the sofa and observing your thoughts as they come and go. Don't judge the thoughts as that could put you into a negative mood. You don't need to sit in an uncomfortable Yoga pose and also it is not necessary to say "Ohhmmmmm".</p>
 <h2>Write things down</h2>
 <p>Sometimes something requiring more concentration power demands the time on those days. This is where it helps to make a note in a journal and come back to it in one of the following days. This doesn't mean slacking off for one day, but it means managing the rare available concentration power for the day. I might repeat myself: Today, sweat all the small stuff. Tomorrow, do the deep focused work on that important project again.</p>
 <p>Everything I encounter and don't want to forget I will write down. I am more likely to forget things without having slept enough. I never forget anything when I use my second brain (journal). :-)</p>