Good morning, how an earth are you doing? It's Benkuma Radio back with another Short Sharp Monday show.

So today I want to talk about being tired.

It's obviously something no one ever really wants but it happens right we get a bad night's sleep for whatever reason life catches up with us stress builds up on us

It happens to all of us, it happens to me, and it's something that quite honestly some of the time we just need to manage, but the thing is I think there's a habit loop here that isn't really serving people now if we think about how modern society is evolved

what happens is we often feel tired and go, I'll have a cup of coffee or a cup of tea or whatever our

chosen sort of liquid-based pick me up is. And the reason I want to bring this up is there's many many many

many reasons for us to be tired. So if you think about our normal daily work

environment it could be that we work in front of a computer screen and

our brain, our eyes has just been staring too long a big flat white screen. It could

be that your day so far has just been really, really busy and your

brain has been taking in just like loads of input, input, input and it just needs to rest,

it needs to stop. And that's one of the reasons I've talked before

about the value of taking a lunch break and just actually given your brain a

little bit of time to just rest and recalibrate and be ready to take more information in.

It could be that you've just been on one really big task like let's say you're

doing an assignment or a project or just a big piece of work and

you've just literally been staring at it for too long.

Your brains kind of run out of problem solving juice. The reason I want to bring all this up is I don't want a

learned habit loop which is all I'm tired all I need caffeine whether it's tea coffee energy drink to be the

loop that we always reach for so I don't always think it's a positive thing think

about some of the times you've been tired, your brain's been fatigued, you know, you just

wanted to feel better and you've had a cup of coffee and it just hasn't done anything.

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