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Miranda Manier

  • Managing Editor, American College of Sports Medicine
Minneapolis
As seen in: MSN, MSN Canada, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo Singapore, Flipboard, Reader's Digest (U.S.), WKYC-TV (Cleveland, OH), WXIA-TV (Atlanta, GA) and
she/they. digital & multimedia producer. constantly crying about tv. probably posting about public transit.

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I Tried “Microbreaks” to Be More Productive—And They Changed My Day in Ways I Didn’t Expect

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By Miranda Manier
| Reader's Digest (U.S.) Verified
By 2:43 p.m. on a Monday, I had become one with my chair. Not in a peaceful, ergonomic way. More in the “has anyone seen her blink lately?” way. I had answered emails, edited copy, opened the same tab three separate times and ignored my water bottle so thoroughly that it may as well have been decorative. My body was technically present, but my brain had started giving me the spinning rainbow wheel. This is the part of the workday when I usually make one of two bad choices.
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I Tried “Microbreaks” to Be More Productive—And They Changed My Day in Ways I Didn’t Expect

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By Miranda Manier
| Yahoo News Malaysia Verified
By 2:43 p.m. on a Monday, I had become one with my chair. Not in a peaceful, ergonomic way. More in the “has anyone seen her blink lately?” way. I had answered emails, edited copy, opened the same tab three separate times and ignored my water bottle so thoroughly that it may as well have been decorative. My body was technically present, but my brain had started giving me the spinning rainbow wheel. This is the part of the workday when I usually make one of two bad choices.
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I Am a Terrible Sleeper, but This Clever Nighttime Trick Helped Me Fall Asleep in Minutes Original

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By Miranda Manier
| Reader's Digest (U.S.) Verified
My brain has terrible timing. At 3 p.m., when I need to answer emails, finish an edit and behave like a functioning adult, it would happily crawl under my desk and cuddle up with my cat for a nap. But at 11:30 p.m., when the lights are off and I am finally horizontal, suddenly it wants to workshop every unresolved issue in my life. Did I respond weirdly in that meeting? Did I turn off the oven? Why did I say “Sounds good!” when nothing sounded good? Should I be stretching more?
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