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Uncluttering Your Mind Is Speak-Talk For Destressing

Bridget Wright — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:15:16 +0000

I love the post idea that Becky over at My Organized Biz had on yesterday about “uncluttering your mind.” This is sage advice for those of us who use mental muscles EVERY day to generate business and generate an income. Relaxing is KEY to being productive and having good, creative ideas.

Uncluttering…Yeah, that’s where I am and what I’m doing today. Uncluttering. It’s been long overdue for one of these uncluttering days and I do intend to enjoy it. I have to. The stress has caught up with me. I know, I know, I talked about saving, cost-cutting, etc. this morning, but hear me on this one. I’ve saved up for a long time to be able to enjoy this today, so there’s no skin off of my teeth (or whatever that means). Trust me, when you take the time to “unclutter”, you feel better and you get WAY more done.

Like I am now. See you guys in a couple of days.

CANON-BALLLLLL!!!

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Copyright 2008 – Bridget Wright

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**Uncluttering Your Mind** Is Speak-Talk For Destressing

Need a Quick Way to Recharge or Destress at Work? Try Aromatherapy!

Kristen King — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:48:03 +0000

This past week at my women’s health blog, guest writer Jennifer Chait offered some really simple and really excellent aromatherapy recipes. I’m feeling really drained right now and trying to come up with a noncaffeinated way to perk up and get some stuff done before I crash for the night.

One really nice thing about aromatherapy is that it’s super easy to stash a bottle of essential oil in your desk drawer for easy access during the day. Because I work from home, I don’t have any of those crazy safety restrictions like no open flames in the office, so I have an oil burner at my desk and I use lavendar oil when I’m feeling particularly stressed out.

Your in-office solution might be to just open the bottle and set it on your desk for a few minutes. The scent will reach you, but not your office mates. Try it.

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Need a Quick Way to Recharge or Destress at Work? Try Aromatherapy!

Contest: Win a $50 Target Gift Card

Kristen King — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:27:00 +0000

Over at my women’s health blog, Lively Women, I just announced a fun and VERY easy contest. The prize is a $50 gift card to Target, and all you have to do is leave a comment on the announcement post with 5 things you could do to improve your health this year.

Now, how is this related to women and business? Well, if you want to be successful in your career, whether you’re self-employed, a business owner, or working for someone else, you have to be healthy. That means getting enough sleep, eating right, exercising regularly, taking steps to avoid getting sick, and visiting the doctor when you’re ill. It also means taking sick days when you need them.

Especially in the last few years, people have been more career driven and less concerned about their personal health. It’s time to find a balance! What changes could you make? Leave a comment at Lively Women and be automatically entered to win.

Important: comments made here for the contest DO NOT COUNT. They have to be made at the Lively Women post.

Tags: women and business, health, contest, target gift card, lively women

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Contest: Win a $50 Target Gift Card

Take A Break From Your Business

Bridget Wright — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:53:22 +0000

As an small business owner, a manager or a work-from-homer, are you familiar with the term “vacation”? I know, I know. I’m sure it’s a foreign word to you too. But, it is very important that we take the time to rejuvenate ourselves. Having been a home-based freelancer for over 10 years, I have had to learn my share of tips and strategies to pull myself away from my desk at a decent hour, shut the computer off (not in snooze or standby mode) and WALK AWAY FROM THE OFFICE. This has to be a conscious and disciplined effort to do. I wrote a few tips here about some things that you can try to use to get more R&R into your business life. Whatever business you’re in, whatever times of day that you work, whereever you work and whatever you do, remember the main thing that’s going to keep those creative juices flowing and spark the energy you need to make it through each day, you must get proper rest.

What do you do to relax?

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Take A Break From Your Business

Protect Yourself from Winter Illnesses at the Office

Kristen King — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:40:56 +0000

For those of us who work from home, cold and flu season is yet another reason to be glad we don’t have to leave the house to do our thing. But if you’re working in an office during the fall and winter months, all is not lost. Here are some easy ways to cut down on your risk of picking up your coworkers’ ickies:

Wash your hands after touching doorknobs, copiers, elevator buttons, and phones. Anything that lots of people are touching is chockablock with other people’s germs. If you can’t wash your hands, use a liquid hand sanitizer such as Purell — but make sure it has the right alcohol concentration or you’re wasting your time.
Don’t touch your face, including rubbing your nose or eyes. Your mucous membranes are little sponges that suck in germs, so the less you touch these areas, the less likely you are to introduce the flu virus.
Try not to shake hands if you can avoid it. Most people understand, especially if you mention that cough you’ve had lately — “I wouldn’t want to pass anything around!”
Stay away from sick people in the office and on your way to work. Change seats at the meeting or on the subway. Switch to a different carpool. Do what you need to do.
Stay away from people with sick kids. Enough said.
Wipe down your phone, mouse, desk surface, and keyboard regularly to keep them clean.
Use your own pen, not someone else’s.
Stay hydrated.
Take a multivitamin, or at least a vitamin C supplement. What can it hurt?

Do you have other tips for staying flu free? Leave a comment!

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Protect Yourself from Winter Illnesses at the Office

Stress-Free Success

Bridget Wright — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:55:52 +0000

How can you achieve success AND stay stress-free? If you can answer that question, you can win one million dollars!! Well, no not really.

However, answering that question does qualify it as the million dollar question because success requires so much from us that it can put us under stress. What I have found out in this journey to success is that being able to prioritize, focus and discipline myself does count. Success does not come easy nor does it come without a price.

There are some of us here at b5media who have some suggestions and viewpoints that we put to use while ladder climbing. I’ll share them with you:

1. A list of 25 ways you can use to make life simpler.

2. Mary Emma’s commenters leave a few other suggestions…

3. Alicia sparks gives us an idea on feel-good destressing.

4. Got $50? Get destressed here.

These are just a few ideas that we have. What ideas do you have for destressing?

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Stress-Free Success