Work and Wellness: Finding Balance Now
By Virginia Laird
Far too many people throw themselves into work in an effort to get more done and find success. While pulling long hours can prove your willingness to work hard it can also lead to a lack of sleep, an increase in stress, and encourage grabbing food for convenience rather than choosing to follow a healthy diet. Health and wellness experts advise that finding balance with work can help keep your wellness on track. A few tips these experts recommend include:
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Find time for you, it can help reduce stress
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Make sure you allow for plenty of sleep
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Start your day with breakfast
Find Time for You, It Can Help Reduce Stress
Research suggests that finding a little time for yourself can help reduce stress. Surrounded by work, house chores, and a host of other issues it can be easy to get overwhelmed in daily life. It is times like these that health and wellness experts advice going for a swim, taking a jog, or finding a hobby to take your mind off of your worries. These experts suggest that carving out as little as 20 minutes each day for yourself can help reduce the amount of stress you experience. Increasingly, stress proves to be detrimental to health and wellness by causing a plethora of issues. Start carving out a little time for yourself today.
Make Sure You Allow for Plenty of Sleep
Health and wellness experts suggest that, rather than trying to burn the midnight oil to get all your work done, it is best to prioritize sleep. Sleep is one of the best ways to balance home and work life. Research suggests where there is an abundance of sleep there is a lack of stress and an increase of happiness and productivity. It is advised that you should get at least 6 hours of sleep each night. There may be nights when this cannot happen; however, it should be the goal. At times this may require you setting a bedtime and sticking to it.
Start Your Day with Breakfast
Research suggests that skipping breakfast is one way to encourage overeating throughout the day. It also suggests that eating breakfast can help you get focused, and wake up your metabolism, which helps your body to function and stay well. If you are serious about balancing work and wellness, it is a necessity that you start making breakfast a priority right away. For those who may find this difficult there are a plethora of meal replacement shakes and bars which can help you start to have it.
Now you are ready to begin putting your health first so that you can become more successful in your work.
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