How To Tell If Your Office Chair Is Killing Your Productivity
Posted on February 15th, 2012
If you asked office workers what most affects their productivity chances are their office chair wouldn’t be at the top of the list. For many it’s regarded as somewhere to park their butt as they go about their daily tasks. And yet if it isn’t up to the job it can end up being a huge drain on your productivity. The thing is this isn’t always obvious. In this article we’re going to look at the problem in 3 stages.
- How your office chair can sap your productivity
- How to check your chair is set up correctly
- Why replacing your chair maybe your best option
Let’s get started.
1. Is your office chair a productivity drain?
It’s often not obvious that difficulty in concentrating may be due to your chair. When you have a poor chair that doesn’t support you correctly it soon starts to cause discomfort. Unfortunately t
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Be Prepared! Before, During and After The Storm
Posted on February 8th, 2012
Living in Tornado Alley, it is especially important for my family to prepare for violent weather. Deadly storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes ravage households across the country each year and are constant reminders that Mother Nature has a temper. These storms seem innocent in the beginning, but each year no matter how many safeguards are in place, communities all across America are stripped of their resources, people, and livelihoods in the blink of an eye. It is heartbreaking to see so many people affected time and time again when it seems there are so many precautions that can be taken to ensure people aren’t killed and possessions aren’t lost. But
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How To Reduce The Threat Of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) By Becoming A Keyboard Commando
Posted on January 5th, 2012
With all the problems of modern office working Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) doesn’t look like going away anytime soon. It continues to mess up people’s lives and we still need to work at computers so unfortunately the two go hand in hand.
With that said some of the actions we perform daily are a lot more harmful than others. It’s important to recognize this and take steps to avoid the worst of them if at all possible.
One of the biggest culprits is also one of the most useful. The humble mouse.
How can a mouse increase the chance of RSI? Although it’s an incredibly useful device your mouse also places a lot of strain on your body and this isn’t always apparent. It’s the way we use it that causes the problem.
Often we keep our hand on the mouse even when we don’t need to. This creates
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Creating a Bedroom Oasis
Posted on December 28th, 2011
Recently, my husband and I have been decorating like crazy in order to do our beautiful English Cottage style home justice. However, like so many others, we decided to wait until almost every room in the house was decorated before we started on our own bedroom. Now, I regret our decision to delay. I wish we had chosen to spruce up our own space before focusing on the rest of the house, because really, we are the ones that spend the most time in our house, so we should put ourselves first in that aspect. Now that we’re done though, we couldn’t be happier with our new space!
Whether we retreat into our bedroom to escape the chaos of everyday life or we simply need some good, old-fashioned shut-eye, the bedroom should become a private vacation. With the fast-paced quality of life that so many enjoy in this day and age, everyone needs a place where they can let loose, unwind, and be themselves. I k
Flowering Loropetalum is a Shrub for All Seasons
Posted on December 9th, 2011
“I was sorry because I had no loropetalum, and then I met a man who had no snowdrop.”
With tongue in cheek, the famed garden columnist Henry Mitchell wrote these words three decades ago, and I had to smile when I read them recently in an anthology of his work. The only loropetalum that gardeners knew way back then was the original species – Loropetalum chinense, sometimes known as the Chinese fringe flower, a rather nondescript evergreen shrub that wasn’t especially popular.
But things things have changed since then!
If the great man were alive today, I bet he’d trade his snowdrops in a heartbeat to get his hands on one of the modern loropetalum cultivars pictured here. The hybridizers and nurserymen have really done their magic. Today, bright flowers, burgundy foliage, and a graceful, arching habit combine to give loropetalum year-round appeal.
It was back in the early 1990s when these pink-flowered selections made their debut, and I can still remember when they first hit the garden centers. They’re u