12 Science Approved Hacks To Boss Your Productivity

4. Take A Nap

It would seem that the only people who don't like naps are children, the ungrateful swines.

Naps are great and their importance is steadily becoming increasingly recognised in the grown up world of business meetings and performance stratagems.

In China, a country famed for its work ethic, napping during the working day is pretty well accepted (although, granted, this is probably because most of them work 14 hour days) and then there is of course the classic siesta so favoured by our European friends. It is pretty much only the American (and therefore British) style of work, work, work, that views taking adequate breaks as a sign of laziness.

An effective power nap should be 15-20 minutes long, or longer than 90 minutes in order to fall in line with your natural sleep cycles, anything more or less will make you feel even groggier. Ideally this should be taken between 1 and 4pm if you work normal office hours.

To really give yourself a kick up the proverbial, you could also combine the power of naps with the power of caffeine and take a coffee nap.

Caffeine will generally take around 15 minutes to kick in, so knocking back an espresso and taking a 15 minute catnap will mean that you'll wake up so alert that you'll be able to hear colours.