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length of a nap for optimum effectiveness. After about forty-five minutes
you might well still be snugly asleep but you’re not doing any more to
boost your brain.

There is one major downside to the power nap, however, which is
persuading your colleagues that you are in fact upping your productivity
rather than slacking off like Homer Simpson. Whilst there are one or two
work environments that have accepted the power nap, you may find that
your particular boss takes a dim view of it. If you’re lucky enough to have
a boss who sports a droopy moustache, an oversized sombrero and a
poncho then try suggesting a snooze lounge for tag-team napping.

And if you have no success, and you don’t have a dedicated snooze room,
there’s even a thing called an Executive Hammock which is a tiny nylon
foldaway hammock intended for use in the office, maybe strung up between
the filing cabinets. Or if you can’t find a suitable fixing point then you
could simply have two flunkies hold up the ends while you refresh
yourself…

HERE’S AN IDEA FOR YOU…
There are phone/iPod-friendly mp3 files specifically for snoozing along
to. These consist of twenty or thirty minutes of white noise (intended to
help drown out external sound) followed by a series of gentle waking
noises to bring you back from the land of nod. Search online for free
samples; try www.placebo.serv.co.za/?page_id=7.