Taking naps can be a great way to rest and recharge during the day, but not all naps are created equally. Some forms of napping can affect your nighttime sleeping patterns, and some can leave you feeling more tired than you were when you first laid down! Luckily, there are steps that you can take so that…
Tag: stress management
5 Key Relaxation Techniques to De-Stress
Our lives seem constantly stressed and difficult these days. No matter your profession, financial status, or relationships, it seems as though there is a constant pressure and frustration that accompanies each. True relaxation seems like an illusive dream, but it really isn’t. Relaxation involves some planning on our part, but mostly it is a controlled…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 3
We all have the same amount of hours in a day. Are yours quality hours? Do they look and feel the way you want them to? We don’t always have control over that. It’s tough to live simply in America these days—we can’t be the way people used to before cars and computers and cell…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 2
Last week we suggested that it might be more useful to think of managing energy instead of managing time in this jam-packed age of doing-more-with-every-minute. The key to human performance is energy, not time. We all have the same number of hours in each day, but we achieve very different things in those hours. We can’t…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 1
What is it about time? Some moments last forever while others pass so quickly it’s like they didn’t even happen. And as we grow older, time seems to fly … whether we’re having fun or not, heh. “Time is an illusion,” Albert Einstein said. He was right. And yet time is one of the most…
Techniques to Help You Relax: Part III
In this three-part series on techniques to help you stave off stress, relax and sleep better, we’ve written so far about 10 things you can do to bring on the peacefulness and beat that insomnia. We’ve discussed the benefits of making time for yourself, being present, focusing on your breath, tuning in to your body,…
Tips to Help You Relax: Part II
Stress and sleep are not good bedfellows. Stress can mess with your rest and cause a vicious cycle of anxious days and sleepless nights. And these days, who among us doesn’t have experience bit of stress? Perhaps you read our last blog with the first five of 15 relaxation techniques to help you get to…
The Miracle of Holiday Travel
It’s that time of year when the world falls in love. When more people get bumped in shopping malls or rear-ended in traffic yet manage to remain cheery amid the melee. When everyone and their mothers try to get on a plane and some don’t make it because they misjudged the misery of the security line. The holidays…