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- Nina Schwarting: What can you do if you exhausted in but can't switch off? Many leaders know the problem. You are tired but still active Although you may on holiday thoughts continue You have so-called thought loops that don't really you calm which is the actual calm phase doesn't you peace. It's what in your nervous system at Your body is exhausted, it needs rest, needs relaxation, needs relaxation, but your nervous system is still activated. This is a classic state of over-nervousing, where your nervous system is consciously active because it the switch to relaxation. What can you in moments like when you feel you're totally flat but your head rumbling and you calm A very clear STOP ritual helps. So really, when you to the party, laptop in hand. If you a company phone, it in your pocket, put not in sight anymore and thus to for today it's over. Some people, especially in home office, put all the nonsense in the cupboard so they don't to everything If you to the office and home, that's a wonderful transition. But it's that you signal to that it's over. So your nervous system needs clear transitions between activity and rest. Because without this conscious transition phase, your brain remains in working mode. That means, although you subconsciously everything away, you put the laptop in the closet or, or, your brain is still active because you consciously did not the stop button. Therefore, please think about what could clear signal that you to your brain so that it activation mode into the rest mode and then drive Maybe you need a little more, maybe need movement. Some people can find good transition Maybe you into the shower, that is also totally valuable for some people. think about it and just try what are good transitions you can a holiday. That means that it's really the after and that you don't have out your phone to look at the mails And if it's hard for you to not let and you rather like to quick look it could be important or it could be the expectation that you 24x7 available, then we our brain to into this break by consciously making sure that such a break doesn't just mean being lazy. It's just hanging out on the sofa and doing nothing that's connected to laziness. It's a break, no matter how you shape it after your day off, in your day off. is always an investment in your productivity. You come to rest, your brain comes to rest. What you experienced in work can now stored in your head, can be and you will start a much clearer mind the next day and you will suddenly much more attention, much more creativity, much more space for was the previous evening. because your system was simply more exhausted. And if you don't get of this exhaustion, then this space of free thinking, planned thinking, strategic thinking for you become smaller and smaller. So if you find to break, if you find difficult after work, then you can always take into account what it means if you up on your relaxation and still this thought loop. And then, of course, you in today's a conscious stop ritual so that automatically shape this transition for yourself so that you a few days, but it gets easier and you the way to party as well as you find the way to the bathroom in to your teeth. So, feel to try it and see what you.