Soaking at stacked meetings

It’s low pressure to show up to an online meeting, mic on mute, ready to ‘soak it up.’

But our ability and capacity to soak is soon expended. 

It’s why we feel full, zombie-esque, overloaded or jittery after back-to-back meetings online. 

If you’re working remotely or from home more than you used to, you’ve lost that ‘meeting walk’ time, from desk to meeting room or meeting room back to desk ... or to the next meeting. 

Not only has the daily commute disappeared for many, the inter-meeting stroll has gone too. 

This transition was vitally important time for:
- sorting through the information we want to retain
- synthesising it into our long term memory, and 
- emptying our cognitive load ready for the next meeting. 

And It’s gone. 

Instead, we click from one link to the next with no gap, space or decompression. 


Now ... no one is going to do this for you...

It’s on you to get a micro break, a sliver of time - even 90 seconds - to ‘shake it off’ every time. 

Catch some sun or wind on your face, pat the dog or stretch. 
Move. Change your state. Don’t just sit there soaking. 

Your cognitive load capacity for the rest of the day - and evening - will be better for it.