In Support of the 5-Minute Walk
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For the next time you’re feeling stressed, burned out, or under-appreciated at work, I offer you the 5-minute walk.
It’s Kameron-recommended, not backed by any scientific findings, and it just might do the trick. For most of us millennial guys, the most common way to deal with stress or exhaustion is to escape by engaging with content on socials or yesterday’s highlights on YouTube. There’s nothing wrong with this unless it isn’t working for you.
It definitely hasn’t been working for me, but for some reason I kept trying it thinking that the result was going to change.
As an experiment, I tried taking a 5-minute walk instead.
After working for an hour on one task, I could feel my productivity dropping. Instead of pushing through to a point I couldn’t recover from, and instead of escaping my reality by engaging with an online version of someone else’s, I decided to go outside for 5 minutes.
I walked to the end of the street, felt the sun on my face, and listened to the sound of the cars driving by. Then I turned around, walked home, and sat down to work again.
It was only a 5 minute break, but it accomplished a complete reset of my energy and focus.
There’s no judgment from me if engaging with social content accomplishes this same result for you. I just know from my own experience how many times I felt the need for a reset, my first thought was to pick up my phone, and then the result was never what I was looking for.
I’m not saying that I hope you leave your phone in your pocket the next time you jump in a lake, but if you are looking for a reset in the middle of your workday, maybe try the 5-minute walk instead of the 30-minute social binge - the result might surprise you.
