INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY: Getting the proper sleep, nutrition, and exercise

This is targeted towards, but certainly not limited to

students in school and/or employees in the
workforce. The purpose is to emphasize the lack of
sleep, nutrition, and exercise in our community and
educate the effects it has on our productivity rate.
Having productivity is very important as it can

How do you increase result in improved living standards, higher income,

Productivity? and increase more services for a given number of

Gaining full productivity requires proper sleep,
nutrition, and an adequate amount of daily
exercise. Although, these are not the only ways
to increasing productivity, they merely act as the
primary motives to being productive and assist in
developing the right mind-set.
Here are some ways you can increase daily
productivity with the proper sleep, nutrition,
hours of work. The magnitude of productivity we
possess can be majorly affected by our daily health
decisions. Gaining full productivity requires proper
sleep, nutrition, and an adequate amount of daily
exercise: These are three very important factors
Brochure subtitle or company tagline
Increasing
with respect to increasing productivity and being
able to fully function on the daily. Lacking in any
one of these three factors can imbalance your health

Productivity
exercise, and mind-set: tremendously and lead to troubles with completing
the simplest of tasks.
- Plan Ahead & Set Goals
- Evaluate Plan
- Have Deadlines
- Minimize Interruptions
- Organize your Workspace
- Reflect on your Goals
- Reward yourself
For questions, contact Bonnie Larsen:
Blars144@bruimail.slcc.edu

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Productivity Affected by Sleep?

Sleep may seem like the most unproductive
part of each day, but it is actually then when
your body is correcting chemical
imbalances, assuring proper blood sugar
levels, making new connections, building
memories, and healing/correcting blood
vessels. Missing sleep causes waking hours
to be less productive and can result in long-
term effects. Disrupting your sleep cycle
could result in sleep deprivation.

Exercise to Increase Increasing Productivity

Productivity. Through Nutrition
Exercise has been shown to improve Studies have shown that
concentration, sharpen memory,
promote faster learning, enhance employees who eat
creativity, and lower stress.
healthy are 25% more
It has also -This photo shows the
been proven to proper sleep amounts for likely to have a higher job
elevate mood, each appropriate age
which can Sleep deprivation performance.
increase Being sleep deprived can result in the
overall following: Depriving your body of the proper nutrition can
performances. result in low energy levels, hair loss, infertility,
- Lack of alertness
- Inability to concentrate sleep issues, mood changes, and anxiety.
- Memory issues
- Increased stress

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Follow-up Report

September 17, 2018

Elisa Stone, Professor

Salt Lake Community College
English 2100 – Technical Writing

RE: Follow-up Report for Project One

Dear Professor Stone:

I am writing this follow up letter to inform you that I’ve acted upon this concern of
increasing productivity. In doing so, I’ve printed copies of the created brochure and
passed them out to my co-workers and class members. I explained to them my goal for
community change and assured them my purpose - primarily to raise awareness and
express the importance. I invited them to further assist me in raising awareness to our
community by assuring that friends and family members are getting the proper amount of
sleep, nutrition, exercise, and inform them of the effects it has on productivity.
Furthermore, I will continue to educate the health effects on productivity to others.

While doing this project, I concluded that sleep, dieting, and exercise all depend upon
one another when trying to accomplish the other. I also recognize that sleep, nutrition,
and exercise are not the only ways to increasing productivity, but they merely act as the
primary motives to being productive and assist in developing the right mind-set.

Doing research for this project mainly helped me to realize the importance of getting an
adequate amount of sleep. Before this project I was aware that not getting enough sleep
could make you tired and less productive but now I recognize the long-term effects of
sleep deprivation on the body as well as the toll it has on the mind.

As a student and employee, I will play my part in our community by using this
knowledge to be more productive in my job as well as my schooling.

Sincerely,

Bonnie Larsen
Bonnie Larsen

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