Hey professionals! Do you struggle to switch off after work? Well if you do then watch this video
because I've got five fast ways to switch you out of that habit, and the last one is a fantastic
trick of the mind! My name's Steve and I coach professional people just like you to combine your
personal brilliance with unshakeable emotional freedom. And you can start on that journey by
downloading my free five-step guide to mastering stress in the moment. You'll find the link in
the comments below this video. Now when work is done we want to switch off. We want to enjoy our
evenings. We want to be relaxed, but sometimes we struggle to do that. What sometimes happens
is we get home and we can't really shake those thoughts about work. We're thinking about meetings
that might happen tomorrow, things that happened today, things that we must remember for tomorrow,
people that we must speak to and things like that. And rather than relaxing and being fully
present with the things that we want to do in our evenings our minds are still off in work mode, and
we don't relax, and that feeds back to the next day when we're not fully relaxed, so it's worth
doing something about that, and here are the five things I've got for you. Number one: whatever's in
your head get it out of your head and onto paper. This is simply writing things down. If it's a
to-do list for tomorrow, I must remember to call somebody, I must remember to deal with something,
get it down on paper and get it out of your head. When you get it out of your head you'll find that
it won't shake around in there quite so much! And number two: because a lot of what's spinning
around in your head is preparatory thinking about what's going to happen tomorrow and the day after
then it can be useful, as well as writing things down, to actually set out a little bit
of storyboard. What does tomorrow look like? Maybe even what does the day after tomorrow look like?
When am I going to make that call? When am I going to be able to do this? When will I attend to that?
And it might even be worth spending five minutes just playing through that storyboard so you do a
little bit of mental rehearsal. Sports people use mental rehearsal because it works! And it pacifies
that part of the mind that's nagging you about this. Now number one and number two were about
getting things out of your head and onto paper. Number three is about getting something different
into your head, and what that means is as soon as you finish from work then get into something
else. Get into a hobby, get into that book that you're reading. Maybe if you make model planes or
something, get into making model planes. You don't have to spend your whole evening doing it but just
immediately switch into doing something else, get something else into your head and you'll be able
to relax from work, but if in the middle of doing that thoughts about work come up then go back to
tips one and two: get it out of your head get it onto paper, storyboard your next day. By the way
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Now, we've talked about getting things out of your head and onto paper, we've talked about getting
something else into your head, now number four is to get out of your head and into your body,
and that means going for exercise, or going for a walk, getting on your bike,
something that gets you into your body rather than your head. I used to do martial arts
practice to get out of my head and into the body. You might have something else,
you might have football you might have some handcrafts.
And in that way there might be a natural join between this and the previous tip about getting
into your hobbies. Some people enjoy cookery as a way to get something else into your head and
to even get out of your head and into the body, so maybe start getting culinary. But certainly
the worst thing you can do is just sit there and try to veg out when all that's really going
around is all this stuff about work. So we've done getting it out of your head and onto paper, we've
done getting something else into your head, we've done getting out of your head and into your body,
and number five is to pacify what's in your head, and that means utilizing meditative or trance
states now. You probably haven't got time right now to learn the whole business
of hypnosis and self-hypnosis but you can easily experience this kind of trance state
by for example just staring at something and letting the muscles around your face relax.
You can do this standing up or sitting down, you could sit in a comfy chair and for example stare
into a candle, it's quite a common one. It helps you get into that meditative state it helps clear
the mind helps pacify the mind and you can do that just as much standing up. And bonus tip
number six is to master your work-life balance, especially if you're working from home right now,
because you don't have that ritual of leaving the office and traveling home as a space to unwind.
And to do that to master that watch this video up here or if you've already watched that video
then watch this one down here instead. This is steve wishing you health and happiness.