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This episode explores why you should make standing up for work your default.
What are your day-to-day working practices? If sitting down is still your default, now’s the time to make a change and start standing up for work.
Topics Discussed in this Episode:
The benefits of standing up for work.
Creative solutions to make standing up for work your default.
Key Takeaways:
Standing up for work changes up the energy. Not only is it more energising for you, but it also changes up the energy of how you communicate.
From a physiological standpoint, standing reduces decompression forces that run down the spin.
The pelican rule, which is to stand on one leg if you’re talking, works a treat to make meetings shorter.
Action Steps:
Do phone calls instead of Zoom meetings whenever possible.
Make standing up for your default instead of sitting down.
Get a standing desk or a laptop table that works for you, or position your laptop on a window sill or an ironing board.
Use a pile of magazines or a pile of books in lieu of a standing desk.
Have standing meetings with the pelican rule applied. That is, if you’re talking, stand on one leg.
Leanne said:
“If you don’t need to have a face-to-face, sitting down, note-taking, screen sharing, concentrated meeting, then can it be a phone call? We’ve kind of forgotten that phone calls exist.”
“Standing is better than sitting. Walking trumps both of those things, but we can’t always be doing that.”
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