How to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle While Traveling

How to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle While Traveling

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A reader writes, “How can I maintain a healthful lifestyle while traveling for business or pleasure?”

This is a good question because it shows recognition that maintaining a healthful way of life is more easily accomplished when we are at home in an established routine. Because travel places us in a high-risk situation for continuing our healthful lifestyles, we need to recognize, identify, and practice a new set of skills in what is often a less regimented or more busily structured environment, as is the case with vacationing or business traveling.

What to Do?

Think about the health goals you want to maintain while traveling. Examples may be weight maintenance, cardiovascular conditioning, strength training routine maintenance, or simply active rest and relaxation.

Action Steps:

  1. Seven days prior, write one and no more than two health goals you want to maintain while traveling. Keep in visible area. Read daily
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Lack of Medical and Dental Care Can Hurt Your Business

Lack of Medical and Dental Care Can Hurt Your Business

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I have heard people theorize that the reason men tend to die at a younger age than women is because they do not take care of their health. Many men have told me that they do not go to a doctor or dentist unless they are sick or have a horrible toothache.

Because of this, the physicians and dentists do not have an opportunity to do proper assessments or teach preventative measures that will lead to an ongoing healthy condition.

A lack of medical and dental care can hurt your business in a number of ways:

1. You feel poorly longer than necessary – Have you ever had a cold that goes on and on and on. Your head feels full and it is not only difficult to concentrate but also to keep going because you ache all over. Sometimes a problem tooth can leave you hurting or …

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Healthy Employees, Healthy Business – Easy, Affordable Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness

Healthy Employees, Healthy Business - Easy, Affordable Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness

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“Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Easy, Affordable Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness” by Ilona Bray and a team of experts is a good book that may go unnoticed by many businesses. In these difficult economic times for many, starting a wellness program may not be on the forefront of many corporate and business leader’s thoughts. However, as pointed out in the first chapter, “Why You Need a Healthy Workplace,” the incorporation of wellness programs and the encouragement and assistance with keeping employees healthy can significantly increase the bottom line. The statistics in the book claim that most companies have a positive return on the investment of instituting wellness programs. The book claims that only a small minority of companies fail to break even and that’s often because their initial investment of time and money was too low.

The book then goes on with chapters on strategies for a successful …

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Addictions Can Hurt Your Business

Addictions Can Hurt Your Business

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Every week I see clients who have been involved in some form of addiction and sadly listen as they tell me about the problems they have been experiencing because of it. There are so many parts of a life that are negatively impacted by addictions as follows:

  1. Relationships – It is hard to be faithful to people when your first love is alcohol or drugs. Sometimes an addiction leads to communication problems due to lying and often escalate to the point of divorce or dissociation with the people who care the most
  2. Finances – When you are putting money into gambling activities it doesn’t take long until the bills aren’t being paid and the savings is drained. Those who are buying substances also see their finances disappear quickly.
  3. Health – If a person isn’t doing self-care and making sure that needs are met, illness or accidents can steal
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Grow Your Ability To Gain Wealth In Business

Grow Your Ability To Gain Wealth In Business

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Right Motives For Business

We have all discovered that a compelling vision and highly functional mission statement will launch a successful business. Our motivation for performing business has many facets. As business owners, we desire to develop creative solutions to meet the needs of our specific market. That is a noble pursuit! We must also grasp the crucial concept that we need to make money, and lots of it, to grow a successful business.

Growing our ability to gain wealth in business is an extremely noble facet of our driving motivation to succeed in business. Without cashflow, reserves, investments, profitability, resources, etc. our businesses can not function, not to mention, thrive, expand, multiply, or fulfill the needs of an escalating global market and population. In short, it is “good” for us to aim to make loads of money in business!

5 Principles For Gaining Wealth in Business

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