Monday, March 19, 2012
Turn your frown upside down with these easy tips.
Are you having one of “those days?” You’re feeling blue or sad and you don’t know how to get yourself out of it. Or, maybe you recently had an awful day and you ate your way through an entire bag of Pepperidge Farms cookies and still didn’t feel better. When we live in close quarters with people, we notice mood shifts. Not only in those we love but our in our neighbors, co-workers and the people we come in contact with on a daily basis. When we have a bad day, sometimes we let everyone around us notice it. But how can we shift our mood? Here are some easy tips: One of the foundational principals in yoga is the idea of transience. This is the idea that things are shifting on a daily basis and nothing is ever stable. We might notice this …
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Prevent stress by taking these steps towards better health.
I know a lot of entrepreneurs. These are people in my neighborhood that left working in a corporate position to work for themselves. In every case, they were unhappy with their lifestyle and passionate about something else, so they created an opportunity to start their own business. I see them often in my local coffeehouse and we talk about business ideas and how things are going. You might think that when you make a move such as this, you leave stress behind. This actually is not the case. Speaking from my own entrepreneurial experience, I can say that stress is a daily factor of my life. Juggling many different things regularly, completing daily activities as well as making time for future planning all can create stress. But, the one …
Monday, January 23, 2012
Disconnect from technology and tune in to your body instead.
In the past few weeks, there have been two notable reports in the news about companies encouraging, if not forcing, their employees to stop emailing after work hours. A New York Times story, “A Time to Tune Out,” described Volkswagen’s new policy to turn off the email server to selected employees one half-hour after their shift ends, only to resume it 30 minutes before their next shift starts. In another report on NBC Nightly News last week, a Boston-based company was profiled in which the CEO and some staff set an automated response in their email that is sent out in response to any email that they receive after 5:30 pm. While they still answer their phone calls, they refrain from responding to emails after work hours. The growth of …
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Hone in on the area that speaks to you most and start making sustainable change in your life!
As the New Year approaches, we may be inspired to set new goals for ourselves, also known as “New Year resolutions.” These are always tricky as they are often large, undefined visions without specific steps. We may find that after a few days, weeks or months, we’ve lost track of our goal and we instead are left with a feeling of failure. In order to set ourselves up for success, we need to be specific as to how we’ll reach our goal and by what timeframe. We can’t just say, “I want to lose weight” because that’s too vague and has no timeframe associated with it. By the same token, to say, “I want to live debt free” is also a great idea but without action-oriented steps to demonstrate how you’ll get there, you’ll most likely continue with …
