Archive for September, 2008
Health Tips – How to Add Life to Your Years
Health Tips – How to Add Life to Your Years To get the best out of life, start by making your health a priority. Not just your physical health, but all the factors that make your life satisfying and fulfilling. Try to find the balance that works for you and take action when that balance [...]
Health Tips – Back Safety
Health Tips – Back Safety It doesn’t take much. Maybe you lugged the trash bag to the curb or loaded heavy groceries into the car. Back pain – the most common medical disorder in our modern society – is often triggered by simple, daily activities like these. Statistics indicate that two-thirds of all Canadians will [...]
Safety Tips – 10 Commandments of Safety
Safety Tips – 10 Commandments of Safety The responsibility for your personal safety begins and ends with you. These guidelines will help you identify common safety problems and develop good safety habits to reduce your risk of accidents. 1. Look at the big picture Recognize that accidents hurt everyone – an accidental injury can have [...]
Health Tips – Better Safe Than Sorry
Safe, Not Sorry Safety. It’s a subject you’ve heard about since you were a child. You know there’s a risky way of doing things and a right way. But how much of the safety message have you really taken to heart? How often do you think about safety when you’re at work…at home…at play? If [...]
Mental Health Tips – Managing Conflicts at Work
Managing conflict at work Conflicts at work can be stressful and counterproductive for everyone involved. Common causes of workplace conflict: Increased responsibility, often with little authority – as the number of supervisors and administrators shrink, employees are increasingly asked to ‘pick up the slack’. Yet, they often face ‘turf’ issues, because they don’t have the [...]
Mental Health Tips – Techniques for Taming Tension
Techniques for Taming Tension Relax on the run? Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But when tension makes muscles cramp, moods swing and blood pressure soar, just five minutes of quality down time can make all the difference in the world! Next time your day goes haywire, these simple suggestions may bring a little inner [...]
Health Tips – Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
Sleep – are you getting enough? Do you drag yourself out of bed each morning, longing for just one more hour of sleep? Well, your instincts are probably right – one more hour of sleep could make a world of difference in how you think and feel. The reality of our overscheduled lives means that [...]
Mental Health Tips – Balance at Work
Balance at Work Workplace stress 43% of Americans feel that their job or work is the greatest source of stress in their lives. Recent research links workplace stress to four key factors: High demand – having too much to do in too short a time Low control – having too little influence on the way [...]
Mental Health Tips – Decluttering Your Life
Decluttering your life Living and working in a cluttered environment is expensive. Clutter costs us: Time – which is priceless and can never be replaced Energy – because it makes our jobs harder Financially – because we pay for the initial purchase, pay to maintain the clutter and pay for wasted time spent looking for [...]
Time Management – Dealing with Time Stealers!
Time Management – Dealing with Time Stealers! Are you running out of time before you run out of tasks? Do you wish you had more hours in the day to get it all done? Here are some common time-wasters that eat up precious minutes every day. Learning how to plan for and manage these distractions [...]