The takeaway from this article and study on sitting? Get off your ass and move a few minutes every hour. I like the Pomodoro technique and take a break every 25 minutes.
My Preoccupation With Sitting
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Life Coach
Are you sending that email from the bathroom?
Get Shit Done isn’t a double meaning for checking email on the toilet.
Are you like this woman? Most people go to the bathroom as soon as they wake up in the morning and right before bed. Are you so busy that within mere minutes of waking up, still bleary-eyed and stumbly, you grab your phone or laptop on the way to the bathroom and start checking your email?
Do you believe in fairies?
No? Hmm….let’s see.
I like to believe a Bike Fairy will come along and wash my bike, the Papa Spud’s Fairy will wash and prep all of my CSA produce or the Poo Fairy will come and scoop The Pele’s litter box. On more than one occasion I have asked ‘when will the Dishwasher Fairy come and put the dirty dishes from the sink into the dishwasher?
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Wanna drive my desk? A Mobile Office
When you are mobile professional your office may be your car, a plane, subway car, hotel, coffee shop, briefcase, laptop bag or even your pockets. It’s important to see it this way so you can be organized and productive where ever you are. Just because you are on a plane and you’re 6’4 and your knees are up to your chin doesn’t mean that you can’t get something done. Maybe you can’t work on your laptop, but if you prioritize to determine what you can do during that three hour flight the time isn’t wasted. If you know that the coffee shop you will be in is loud, schedule your meeting for a time when you will have quiet and work on writing that proposal over a latte.
Coming Home From Travel – Whose Chore is This?
How many of you come home from travel and get in discussions with your partner/spouse about what should be done while you are away?
Do you ever walk in the door and immediately start cleaning or tasking because stuff isn’t done?
Do you feel like your partner/spouse should have done this while you were away?
Marcey Rader Featured in Training Edge Magazine!
Training Edge Magazine, a quarterly electronic and hard copy magazine for fitness professionals developed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine, featured yours truly in an article about niche training (pages 3 and 11!). What’s my niche? Business travelers, mobile professionals and anyone who doesn’t sit at a desk from 9-5. Why? Because I’ve lived that life. I traveled weekly for almost eight years and then traveled a few times a month for another three. I understand that traveling for a business isn’t a job it’s a lifestyle.
The Pressure of Working Mobile
I’ve often thought about how hard it must be to have a career as a pilot or military personnel and have constant pressure to maintain health. Still, the traveler part of me can empathize because they are in one of the toughest jobs a person can be in when it comes to maintaining or improving health. They have to undergo routine exams to prove they are healthy, but what if they aren’t? Wouldn’t you be scared to get examined if you thought you might have a blood pressure problem and it might affect whether or not you can go in to work that day?
Energy Giver vs. Energy Sucker
I was recently in an amazing course led by Jerry Bergner called Life Business. If you are local to the area I highly recommend it. One of the things we looked at were the tasks, events and people in our lives and asked ourselves if we were getting energy from them or having it sucked away. Most of what I wrote was not surprising but it was interesting to see how many activities and people both gave and took energy from me.
