A few days ago I was talking with Loni Markman, who will be facilitating a session at the upcoming CHRO Reset Retreat.

At one point she asked me to do something incredibly simple.

Close my eyes.
Put my feet on the floor.
Take a breath.

That’s it.

So I did.

And it took almost twenty minutes for my brain to calm down.

Twenty minutes.

All I was doing was sitting in a chair with my eyes closed.

My mind was firing like a caffeinated squirrel.

Which is funny, because I do not even drink caffeine.

What struck me was not just how wound up I felt.

It was how normal that feeling had become.

And it reminded me of something I learned years ago when I was training for marathons.

Professional athletes train hard.

But they also recover intentionally.

If they trained at maximum intensity every single day, they would break.

Yet most executives do exactly that.

Quick insight for busy CHROs

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