Posted on
February 26, 2011 by
dc

In the last few weeks, I have met many new moms in the school and I’m glad to know that some of them work from a home office like me. It’s nice to note a commonality and it’s often a starting point to a good conversation.
We started talking about how important it is to keep healthy as busy moms as we lead active lifestyles. A healthy lifestyle cannot be a fad, or something that you will do ‘next year’. It should be on your ëto-doí list all year round, not just as a New Year Resolution that you never intend to keep. Once you start on an exercise regime, you will need to keep that up for the rest of your life; or your physical fitness will be lost, and you will have to start all over again. Without regular exercise, the muscles reduce, and fat takes its place (muscles do not become fat, they merely move over to make more room for it if they aren’t used). Then you would need top diet pills when it gets out of hand.
It is therefore important that you choose a regime that is going to keep you interested in the long term; every year throws up a new ‘fitness fad’, but most people take them up and then discard them after a fortnight. Instead, choose something that you enjoy. If the thought of being instructed on stepping up and down on a plastic board fills you with scorn, then you might try something else ñ martial arts are always popular, and a physical fitness regime which incorporates some kind of team sport will also help to keep you interested.
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Posted on
November 12, 2009 by
dc
Working in the home office is a blessing many work at home parents are thankful. In order to enrich your work experience at home, there is a need to equip yourself with good office equipment and efficient organizers. Having to juggle between work and parenting can be challenging so you need to equip yourself with a conducive work environment to enrich your home office experience.
Today, you can find every work at home mom or dad working on a computer for every sort of business. If you are one of them who sit in front of your PC or laptop all day, it’s important to get a good chair to avoid back problems, backaches or any joint pain. Sometimes we take our health for granted and don’t pay much attention to our health but this is just not the wisest thing to do!
Backache is usually caused by sitting, standing or stooping for a long time and it can affect people of all ages. The sitting posture puts pressure on our back and the constituent muscles thus resulting in backache.
If you are tired of the average office chair and find yourself experiencing chronic back pain, an exercise ball chair may be what you need. The standard office chair can be hard on the back and ball chairs provide plenty of support for your back when you sit. Ball chairs are the new and alternative solutions to traditional office chairs. Using an exercise ball as a ball chair is an excellent way to maintain the correct posture when sitting in your home office.
Having a bad back can be troublesome, uncomfortable and frustrating. It can affect your work performance and hinder you from living to your maximum potential. Treating yourself to a good massage during your orlando vacations this year end can bring some relief to those tired muscle and relief to your back.
Whatever you choose to do, don’t neglect your neglect as you work hard in your home office. Change your chair or your office table, fix a new lighting or get some organizers to ensure a pleasant work ambience.
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Posted on
April 25, 2009 by
dc
Have you ever asked yourself, “Why do you choose to earn money from home“? I would like to believe that most of us choose this option because we desire to spend more time with our family or children and we look forward to a better quality of life.
In the fast paced world that we live in it can be easy to neglect our health and wellness. We are so busy racing through our day to day lives – family, friends, work, social engagements that we don’t take the time to look after ourselves. Its really no wonder that so many of us are tired and run down even when we are working from home in our home office. How then can we improve our quality of life instead of this mad rush everyday?
One of the things you can do is to Exercise. The thing is, exercise doesn’t have to be boring or rigid. It doesn’t need to be strenuous or taxing on our bodies. Early this year, I took up Pilates and it has been great taking time off every week to stretch and workout this body of mine. In the past, I wouldn’t allow myself to get out and do something like that cos all I wanted to do was to stay in my home office and kept working.
These days, you can hop to the gym, take up yoga, step classes, learn a dance and a whole range of new workout options. If you don’t really have the time or money for the gym, or prefer to spend your mornings/nights at home, then try an exercise bike in your home office. My work at home husband never fails to jump on his rebounder and does his weight lifts every morning before he heads to the home office. Sometimes when he needs a break from his cad drawings, he would step out of the house and do some deep breathing.
On a final note, don’t forget to take some quiet time for yourself while you earn money from home. Meditating is an excellent way to minimize stress. You don’t have to sit around for hours, just give yourself 5 minutes of quiet time every day. What matters most is that you can take time and have a little catch up with yourself.
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