House dust mites are linked to asthma and according to the BBC News, UK it may be healthier to leave your bed a mess in the morning. Won’t that make the kids happy?
Read about it here: Untidy beds may keep us healthy
I don’t know about you, but for me and many others, January and the New Year always brings a sense of having to re-organize our lives, our time and our space. Not necessarily a New Year’s Resolution but a New Year’s Re-Organization.
Having recently helped my sister and her husband pack up thirty years of “stuff” to move from Wisconsin to South Dakota, and now facing the task of packing up seventy+ years of mom’s “stuff”. I feel an increased need to take a look at my own “stuff” and get it organized now.
The same is true for office space. Is your work space efficient the way it is currently organized? Is there “a place for everything and everything in it’s place”?
Whether you feel the need to organize or not, cleaning out the clutter and changing things up in the office can give you a fresh look and attitude towards your work day. Often times patients will even notice the change and enjoy the fresh “makeover”.
Here are some tips to help you get started today: Link
Clinical psychologist Wendy Walsh spoke to Harry Smith about successful resolutions in the new year and gave some tips on how to stick to a changing lifestyle.
Watch CBS News Videos Online
The Chinese use the lunar calendar for celebratory events which includes the New Year. This falls somewhere between late January and early February. The cycle of twelve animal signs originates from Chinese tradition as a way of naming the years. The animals follow one another in an established order and are replicated every twelve years. The rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig are the twelve animal signs. Every animal has particular characteristics and people born in a specific year are believed to take on these characteristics. According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, which commences on February 14, 2010 and ends on February 2, 2011.
Read the rest of the story:http://www.yearofthetiger.net/
Try this. Helps improve your typing.
Larger printable PDF copy for your office.
Just in case you wanted to follow up on that article you were reading while standing in the check-out line. Always a few good practical tips here.
Hard to believe, but there is a lot of good news out there. Read some while you are taking your break. Great News Network.
The average woman spends two years of her life studying herself in mirrors. – The Week Magazine, 10/6/06
If every home in the United States paid its bills online, solid waste would be decreased by 1,600,000,000 tons each year. – Time Magazine, 4/9/07
Because of their poor diets and excess weight, people now in their 50s and 60s suffer from more health problems than their parents did at the same age. – The Week Magazine, 5/4/07
There are 80,000 Boeing employees in the Seattle area. The daily commute for all employees totals 85 trips around the world. – Time Magazine, 4/9/07
The United States divorce rate has fallen to the lowest level since 1970 (3.6 divorces out of 1,000 people). – MSNBC, 5/10/07
Golfer Jacqueline Gagne has hit 10 holes-in-one in the first four months of 2007. The odds of this happening are estimated to be 1 out of 670,000,000,000,000,000,000. – San Diego Union, 5/19/07
There are approximately 250,000 pores on the soles of your feet, secreting a total of about 1/4 cup of sweat each day. San Diego Union, 4/3/07
An adult human spine compresses roughly .59 inch from morning until night. – San Diego Union, 9/28/06
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