100 years ago today, the Ford Motor Company adopted a standard for factory workers that would come to govern many of our lives, the five-day work week.

Ford was losing exhausted line workers who typically worked six days, so he wasn't trying to be nice here.

He wanted a more stable and productive workforce. He was a classic capitalist. If the own man makes him, if you're mind your work, there's no limit to what he can do. But we're still burned out. And we're still looking for solutions to burn out. Today, on Today explained, 100 years after Henry Ford said, take a day off, guys, we're hiring life coaches, we're neutralizing our shame, LL. We're going on sleep vacations. We're literally going

on a sleep vacation. It's not going to be like when you have anesthesia and then you wake up.

It's really cool. But you might feel a little mellow.

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Kelly Maria Corduckey is a freelance journalist who contributes to business insider for BI.

She wrote this piece about a kind of life coach that claims to help people who are being run ragged by work and family with their executive functioning.

They're called, no surprise, executive function coaches. So executive functioning is the brain's ability to kind of manage tasks. It's sort of your internal project

manager. The ability to manage time, to prioritize, to switch between tasks, to get started on a

project, to get stopped on a project.

Basically, the ability to kind of do the things that need to be done.

An executive functioning coach might be doing pretty similar things to any kind of like work

coach or career coach or life coach. But the way that they're positioning what they're offering

is a bit different. So they're really focusing on the cognitive framing of what's involved

in the whole process that they'll be working on with their client. I'm a certified executive

function coach and my clients come to me all the time with questions

on how to get started.

Welcome back to episode 12 of What the F, where we look at executive function strategies

for the adult world.

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