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Do You Need Help?

How can you learn to help yourself?

Self-Care: Is it Time-Consuming, Selfish, or Expensive?

Recipe? For Burnout!

Long hours…

Multiple deadlines from several departments…

Feeling isolated…

They said, “Try self-care, it will be easy” …

You already feel you don’t have any control over your life…

Self-care has a reputation for being time-consuming, selfish, and expensive…

By now, you have decided it’s not worth the trouble or effort…

Let’s take a few minutes and believe it doesn’t have to cost a penny…

I want to share 3 Self-Care tips that could change your life…

They don’t require any extra time or money…

1. Transitioning to/from Work

Listen to music or uplifting messages when you are on your way to somewhere

Use this time to be built up, encouraged, and motivated

On the way back home, turn everything off

Use the silence in the care to settle your mind form the business of the day

This time of peace and quiet will be refreshing after a busy day

It may seem strange and odd at first, but you will soon be craving the quiet trip home

2. Meeting Your Physical Needs

We are talking about eating, and going to the bathroom

How may of us withhold these basic needs because of deadlines, meetings or he needs of others?

Good quality food is essential to fueling your body as you work in your demanding field

You may struggle to stop for lunch when you are on the go as things pile up at work

But stopping for lunch accomplishes 3 things…

1. Stopping and allowing your body and mind to take a break from others

2. You’re eating something healthy and nutritious to fuel your body for the rest of the day

3. You’re giving your emotional self a time to relax and recharge

Eating lunch is more than just grabbing a quick bite

3. Adjusting Technology

Technology is meant to serve you, not enslave you

Take advantage of opportunities to customize your settings and turn off notifications

Take control of when and how often you check and respond to emails, texts, and phone calls

Close your email down after you check it, don’t leave the app open

When you’re focused on a task, turn your phone ringer off, and leave your cell out of sight so you can’t see notifications

You will feel calmer and in control of your work and mind when you remove devices that demand your attention

Remember that Multi-tasking is really a myth…

It’s described as “Highly inefficient and potentially dangerous to your health”, by David Meyer, a leading expert on multitasking and a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan…

Even the most adept “multi-tasker” will crash and burn trying to resolve simultaneous conflicting demands…

The messages will be there when you are done, the emails won’t go anywhere…

IF you are to be successful in your business or professional life, you must take care of your physical and psychological health…

Too many of us get so involved in our daily tasks, we forget to take care of number one: ourselves…

How can we expect to be the supermen or women, (how we see ourselves to be), if our bodies let us down because of neglect?

Or if we are forgetful or worse have a breakdown because of the constant stress that never lets up?

So, take time away from your busy schedule and recharge yourself on a regular basis…

Listen to the beautiful silence on the way home from work…

(I have done this for a while and its amazing what you do hear in the silence!) …

Take time to eat a healthy lunch each day to feed your body, you will learn to love it, and you body will soon expect it…

And the hardest of all, (for me too!), turn off the phone ringer, close the email and concentrate on the task at hand, not to be distracted by the devices…

This is great advice from an article I read by Laura Howe; “Self-Care Doesn’t Have to Be Time-Consuming, Selfish, or Expensive”

Remember we are responsible for our own health and no job or business is worth losing our health just to finish or complete a task in record time…

Take care of yourselves so you can be there for the important things…

Your family and loved ones need you to be here!

Love you and value you and support you all as I can….

-Bob

P.S. You can always email me at Bob@bebopbaker.com with any questions or comments, I look forward to hearing from you!

P.S.S. Ready for a change? Want more control of your life? You should try this on for size!»

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Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river. But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine. These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years. I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole. You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas’ library. My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father’s dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life. These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven. I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated. You are well acquainted with my failure and how heavily I bore the disappointment. But just at that time I inherited the fortune of my cousin, and my thoughts were turned into the channel of their earlier bent. Six years have passed since I resolved on my present undertaking. I can, even now, remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise. I commenced by inuring my body to hardship. I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage. Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services. And now, Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose? My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative! My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing. This is the most favourable period for travelling in Russia. They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach. The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs—a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins. I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel. I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing. I do not intend to sail until the month of June; and when shall I return? Ah, sister, how can I answer this question? If I succeed, many, many months, perhaps years, will pass before you and I may meet. If I fail, you will see me again soon, or never. Farewell, my, excellent Margaret. Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.

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