I just read an article that said that “being sedentary for more than three hours a day can decrease your life expectancy by two years”. Oh my. By my count, I should be signing my last will and testament like now….or more like, five minutes ago. Seriously? Of course, I’m sitting (and being extremely sedentary) while I write you today. I don’t know if I honestly spent more than three hours standing today… how about you? At my last job, there was a young chap who had his desk se

You work from home and everyone remarks how lucky you are. “What a luxury you have to work from home.” “You must get so much done with just cutting out the commute time alone!” Personally, I always think, “Umm, not the case here!” I feel that I got more accomplished when I left the house each day. And now I’m struggling just to eat my lunch.  The truth is I feel that lunch just cuts into the time I should be working.  If I take the five to ten minutes to make my lunch and sit

Do you need a break? You bet’cha…. keep reading to find out why… Imagine you walk into your office to find a pile of paperwork you know will take you all day to wade through.  Immediately your blood starts pumping and you can feel the tension building.  But, instead of letting it overwhelm you, you decide to take a deep breath and dive right in! Two hours pass and you are a quarter of the way through all the work you’ve accumulated. Instead of taking a break you decide to pow