Leave a Legacy

#paceblog Do you think that where you live affects how when you go to bed? In an article on Yahoo! Heath, Bedtime in America: Which Cities Stay Up The Latest?, this question is answered and you may or may not be shocked at the results.

  Bouncing off of my last post about Arianna Huffington and the importance she puts on sleep and how it helps us recharge, this study seemed to be the next perfect thing to cover. A college senior at MIT recently did a study that found in a city such as New York, people went to bed later than in cities such as San Francisco. Even through New York and San Francisco are two major cities, people in New York went to bed around 11:50pm, while people in San Francisco went to bed around 11:30pm.

#paceblog @ariannahuff This past week I was in San Francisco for a 4 day conference, called Dreamforce. Dreamforce is a conference the CRM company, Salesforce, puts on every Fall. If you would like to learn more about Salesforce you can click here :  http://www.salesforce.com/ J

  At Dreamforce, I had the privilege of seeing Arianna Huffington, CEO of the Huffington Post, speak in a session called “Reimagine. Everything.”   She was funny, real and connected with the audience. She spoke to four important points that we all need for ‘doing well and being well’. Here they are

  1)      Giving – She highlighted that we need to give ourselves a break by unplugging, which helps us recharge. There are three things she mentioned that she said essential to our performance at our jobs and how we live our lives. They are getting sleep, unplugging, and recharging. The two things she said that stood out to me from this point were “burnout is the disease of civilization” and “working 24/7 is the equivalent as coming to work drunk”.

2)      Wisdom – She emphasized that we all have wisdom, peace and strength within us. One of the quotes she used was from Bill Clinton. He said, “The most important mistakes I made, I made when I was tired.” Her point was that we all have wisdom that we can turn to; we just have to listen to it and take a break when we are tired.

3)      Well-being – As people who were not wired to stay awake 24/7, therefore we need a time to recharge. That time is when we sleep.  She reminded listeners that we need to pick a time to turn off our devices and not let them distract us. She also reminded us that sleep is the place where we recreate. This is where we come up with new ideas, inventions, and innovative ideas.

4)      Wonder – In order to wonder we need to stop multitasking. Wondering to a child comes naturally, however what happens when we get older and we multitask to get more done and become so focused that we do not have time to wonder? She mentioned that for the ‘first time 90% of our data has been made available in the last 2 years’. That is absolutely incredible! She then added, ‘how much of our collective wisdom has been made available in the last two years?’ She suggested that what we need to do now is ‘combine new technology with amazing data and our wisdom otherwise we will keep ignoring the warning signs’ that were created to keep us from burning out. The millennial generation is a great example of how technology affects us. She has two daughters in the millennial generation and she has made two observations: 1) the millennial generation is the most stressed and 2) they don’t know how to be with each other because of the constant use of technology. I find both of these observations to be true. Do you?

  Her four points highlight exactly what our society as a whole needs to thrive. Of the four things she listed which one do you need to improve on to thrive?

  To hear her talk click this link, “Reimagine. Everything.”. (Please note: She starts on the 4th page so all you have to do is click the end of the video bar 3 times and you will get to her part. The order of speakers before her goes as such: Al Gore then Neil Young.) 

#PaceBlog #Dove Ever wonder why you think the way you do? Who influenced you to think that way? Did it make you think positively or negatively about yourself? Dove is a driving force that is helping women think positively about their appearance.  The Dove Self-Esteem Project has already helped more than 14 million young people with body confidence education. In the most recent Dove: Legacy film, moms and daughters were asked to write down what they liked and disliked about their body. The film revealed that moms and daughters wrote down the same things for both categories. What it really boils down to is that daughter’s look up to their mothers for how they should think, act and behave and one day without them even knowing it they begin to think and behave like their mother. The message of this film is so powerful and makes you take a second look at yourself, causing one to ask them self ‘Am I portraying a positive attitude to generations that look up to me?’

Do you ever feel like you work too hard? Do you feel you can never get away from work? For many people the answers to these two questions are yes and I am one of them. Work and stress are related in so many ways that one blog post about it cannot cover everything. In the Huffington Post I noticed a very refreshing article about how Germany is urging their companies to not send emails after business hours. Not only does this allow for people to relax, but it also takes away a feeling of guilt. This guilt is primarily based on the pressure that we as people have to be on 24/7 and be accessible to our job at all times. Before smart phones and smart technology in general we were able to relax and not have this guilt on this.