al77
Master Don Juan
Re: BOOTCAMP SUMMARY
Here are some more practical advice:
1. Maintain regular, healthy meals.
Cut on sugar and coffee. Have at least 3 meals a day.
When I got lazy I tend to forget about meals... and tend then to have 1-2 meals and this schedule drains my energy.
3 small meals much more beneficial to your energy level than 2 big ones. More fruits instead of sugar\hamburgers\coffee: simply buy several kind you like and eat it through the day at work.
It does magick!
2. Sleep: 7.5 hours of sleep is a decent amount. But the problem is some days you may feel really sleepy and then you must go to bed early. If you dont, you will "owe" some sleep.. usually this debt "rollovers" from day to day and you may feel sleepy\low energy all the time.
Therefore: just pay attention to how you feel: if you want to go to bed at 8pm, just do it. Dont get into sleep debt.
3. Students. I used to teach myself and I figured out that students can drain your energy and can supply your with some.
They tend to drain it when the material I was presenting was not interesting to me: ie. I was just simply following the book cuz I was lazy to think about some good examples. But if I could come up with something that I found interesting and was presenting it to students, my fascination was contagious: student got interested and they gave me their energy...
4. If you have a full schedule, try to clear it up. Dont take up new activities\things\travels for a week or two. Let you body get get used to a steady shcedule of your new job.
There is no magick pill about the energy but this is what works for me is a) fruits\vegetables, especially fresh juice. Do not drink "from concentrate" juice at all. Go only for fresh kinds. Unfortunately I found only two kinds that meet this requirement: carrot juice (relatively expensive) and orange juce (relatively cheap).
b) when you find something interesting and develop it, reserach it, talk about it...you will have lot sof energy "for free". Seems like you already gained some confidence from work - this might be it.
Try to change what you teach in the way you like, they way you are interested in. And when you explain teh material be genuinely interested in it (even if nobody gives a damn in the classroom). One way to do so is to come up with your own examples while teaching.
Low energy thing could have happened due... strees: new job, new environment, pressure to succeed plus some "pressure" to succeed in BC. After a while it will be back to more normal level.
Here are some more practical advice:
1. Maintain regular, healthy meals.
Cut on sugar and coffee. Have at least 3 meals a day.
When I got lazy I tend to forget about meals... and tend then to have 1-2 meals and this schedule drains my energy.
3 small meals much more beneficial to your energy level than 2 big ones. More fruits instead of sugar\hamburgers\coffee: simply buy several kind you like and eat it through the day at work.
It does magick!
2. Sleep: 7.5 hours of sleep is a decent amount. But the problem is some days you may feel really sleepy and then you must go to bed early. If you dont, you will "owe" some sleep.. usually this debt "rollovers" from day to day and you may feel sleepy\low energy all the time.
Therefore: just pay attention to how you feel: if you want to go to bed at 8pm, just do it. Dont get into sleep debt.
3. Students. I used to teach myself and I figured out that students can drain your energy and can supply your with some.
They tend to drain it when the material I was presenting was not interesting to me: ie. I was just simply following the book cuz I was lazy to think about some good examples. But if I could come up with something that I found interesting and was presenting it to students, my fascination was contagious: student got interested and they gave me their energy...
4. If you have a full schedule, try to clear it up. Dont take up new activities\things\travels for a week or two. Let you body get get used to a steady shcedule of your new job.
There is no magick pill about the energy but this is what works for me is a) fruits\vegetables, especially fresh juice. Do not drink "from concentrate" juice at all. Go only for fresh kinds. Unfortunately I found only two kinds that meet this requirement: carrot juice (relatively expensive) and orange juce (relatively cheap).
b) when you find something interesting and develop it, reserach it, talk about it...you will have lot sof energy "for free". Seems like you already gained some confidence from work - this might be it.
Try to change what you teach in the way you like, they way you are interested in. And when you explain teh material be genuinely interested in it (even if nobody gives a damn in the classroom). One way to do so is to come up with your own examples while teaching.
