Take a quick walk every hour, on the hour, while you’re at work.
Your brain needs a break from your computer, and your body needs a break from sitting at your desk. Achieve both simultaneously by taking a quick walk — five to 10 minutes — every hour, on the hour, during the workday.
It’ll energize you even more than a sugary snack, all without the crash.
Month: December 2019
💫 Inspiring Hack ~ Get on With Living
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
🍎 Health Hack ~ Best Way to Strengthen Your Core
Start Planking
The plank pose is where you hold a push-up position while resting on your forearms. This simple move is the ideal exercise for strengthening crucial core muscles. As you go about your day, almost every move you make revolves around your core — from picking up items on the floor to twisting to see if the coast is clear when driving. . . .
Here’s how to do a plank correctly:
- Lie facedown with your forearms on the floor, with your legs extended and your feet together. You can use a mat or towel to make this more comfortable.
- Push into your forearms as you raise your body so it forms a straight line from your head and neck to your feet. (Do not let your hips rise or sag.)
- Keep your gaze down and hold this position as you engage your abdominal muscles. Take steady, even breaths.
- Try to maintain the position for up to 30 seconds and then lower your body and rest. This completes one set. Work toward completing two to three sets.
Today’s Smile 😃
Musician: “Did you hear my last recital?”
Friend: “I hope so.”
🍎 Health Hack ~ Start the Day with an Energy Booster
Eat Your Oats!
Oatmeal is a complex carbohydrate. That means it’s full of fiber and nutrients. Oatmeal is slower to digest and supplies energy evenly instead of all at once. A bowl in the morning will keep you going for hours.
Today’s Poem ~ Dreams
Dreams
D. H. Lawrence
All people dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind,
Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people,
For they dream their dreams with open eyes,
And make them come true.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Power is in the Present Moment
Being present is more than just a physical act. It also relates to your ability to be present mentally and emotionally. Psychologist, author and breast cancer survivor Paulette Sherman, Psy.D., says that to be present, you need to make the distinction of whether your thoughts are in the past, present or future and bring them back into the moment. “The majority of negative thoughts are about the past and future, which can’t be addressed,” she says. “The point of power is the present, so try to address what is in front of you in the most adaptive, constructive way.”
💫 Inspiring Hack ~ Power is in the Now
“The past has no power over the present moment.” ―
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Know When To Call it Quits for the Day
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it. ~ Ernest Hemingway
