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A few minutes ago, I caught myself staring at my computer screen. I can't say how long I'd been in that zone, but I know that I wasn't spacing. I was ticking through the items left on today's to-do list, trying to figure out if there is any way I can squeeze in a workout before it is time to close up the laptop for the day.
There's time for a quick one, certainly. But I know if I head out now, my mind will be focused elsewhere and I won't give the attention to my posture, pace, and heart rate that I really need to get the most out of my exercise.
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Historically, much of the research that has been done on the health benefits of yoga has been conducted in India. Only in the last several decades, as interest in yoga practice swept the nation, have American researchers begun to examine the topic in…
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The time we designate to exercise is precious, particularly when we have commutes, carpools, cooking, and six-thousand other things to squeeze into our schedules. Every single moment, from jumping into your yoga pants to racing to the treadmill from the locker room, counts.
When I finally get to the actual exercise, I want to pack in as much sweating, calorie-burning, and de-stressing as I can into my thirty minutes or hour. I admit, that means I often breeze past or even skip stretching. I want to go and then I want to stop, making the few minutes it takes to ease my muscles in and out of the exercise seem like a big pain.
"The Biggest Loser" trainer Bob Harper says this is a mistake. Stretching to both warm up and cool down the muscles is critical for a successful workout. Here, Bob explains:
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One of my favorite passages from the Tao Te Ching is the one discussing flexibility:
When alive, the body is supple, yielding. In death, the body becomes hard, unyielding.
Living plants are flexible, In death, they become dry and brittle.
Therefore,…
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When I was researching my book a few years ago, I was looking for employers who were taking advantage of people’s desires to build significant careers while working a flexible schedule. I highlighted companies like Axiom, a new kind of law firm that caters to lawyers who don't want traditional full-time hours (e.g. working parents, artists, or those starting businesses on the side). Axiom pitches itself to clients as an economical alternative to big law firms since it can avoid the high overhead associated with overstaffed firms. Another firm, Virtual Law Partners,
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has been getting some buzz lately with a similar approach.
Now scores of companies are thinking flexible and virtual, in all kinds of fields -- from virtual assistants (check out Delegate Solutions), to corporate executives (see Epoch Workforce). The troubled economy has been a boon to businesses like these, which can offer part-time employment to displaced workers and deliver lower cost services to clients.
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Sure, you want to stay home when your children are babies and toddlers. But it may be more important to take time off when they're adolescents.
You might think that Nancy Shenker, founder and CEO of marketing consultancy…
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Resistance to change is the action taken by individuals and groups when they perceive that a change that is occurring as a threat to them.
Key words here are 'perceive' and 'threat'. The threat need not be…
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