Breathe

Breathe: Take four or five long, deep belly breaths. Deep breathing stimulates nerves in the heart and lungs that lead to calming

— from Fuel (Energy)

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Then the steps, one tank at a time. Refuel the physical tank first, because it carries the others. Move your body — exercise is the fastest way to alter a depleted state and sharpen the mind; when the gauge spikes into panic, take four or five long, slow belly breaths, which calm the whole system at the source; and never undervalue sleep and food, the plainest refuelers there are. Spend the mental tank on purpose. Attention is the single most essential mental resource you have — it decides what you even notice, and your brain processes everything at a real cost, so automate the small, repeated decisions to save the fuel for the ones that matter. — Fuel (Energy)

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