As the tasks pile up and the paper layers your desk, it can be difficult to even think about healthy living. However, the science is in, and a healthy lifestyle will lead to greater productivity and happier life. Think you don’t have time for that? Think again.
Standing Ovation
If you are one of the majority of Americans who spends a great deal of their time at the office in a chair, it may be time to rethink that scenario. For most entrepreneurs days are spent exhaustively and restlessly in a desk chair in front of a computer. While you cannot do push-ups while maintaining your productivity, the health benefits of standing are valid as explained by the BBC and the Smithsonian.com. Standing desks are becoming more and more common and with good reasons – a reduced risk of diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have even shown spending more time standing at work can lead to a longer life.
Defeat the Snooze
Sleep is the one thing that most often gets shortened when deadlines loom and work needs to be done. But it shouldn’t. Links to happiness, decreased stress, and increased fulfillment and productivity are all attached to sleep research. So we all know the benefits of a full nights rest – then why do we so often shirk it? Two helpful tips to wake up feeling refreshed:
1. Wake up at the same time of day, seven days a week, regardless of when you went to bed, as championed by sleephabits.net.
2. Power down your phone while you power down for the night. Besides the mental routine that this will give you, it will also help you avoid time-sucking distractions. If you use your phone for an alarm there are “do not disturb” options so only back-to-back phone calls will ring through.
Recognize How Food Makes You Feel
As late nights and early mornings begin to merge the tendency is to eat quick to save time. However, the options for quick dining, especially at extreme hours are not always very healthy. This might have been okay when you were living in a college dormitory, but now you need to more carefully monitor how food makes you feel. Remember, food is your fuel, if you are putting sludge into your body it will not run as effectively (no matter how much coffee you drink). Realize you feel sluggish and bloated after eating yogurt – cut it out from your breakfast. Feeling energized after some hummus and carrots, then eat it more often. So keep a food journal for a week, simply writing what you ate and how you felt an hour and three hours afterwards. If it can be measured, it can be improved.
Bulletproof your Coffee
Looking for a healthy edge and time saver? You could follow the lead of Dave Asprey, Silicon Valley investor and technology entrepreneur who claims to have hacked his own biology. He looks to coffee to give him superb focus in the morning, but also be a healthy, sustaining meal, so he blends (yes, in a blender) grass-fed, unsalted butter and an upgraded coconut oil to his morning coffee. Many people swear by the long lasting feeling of fullness and the intense focus it provides, two things busy entrepreneurs could use more of.
what are your tips for staying healthy?
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