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Hope, Health, and Happiness. Would you like to live your life with less stress and more happiness? Discover how to take small steps towards a healthier, happier, more resilient you. Stress is a powerful force in life. It can bring about illness, destroy relationships and cause chaos. There is not a one-size-fits-all coping strategy for dealing with stress. Our goal is to put a plan together that helps us to deal with the sources of stress, take care of ourselves during those stressful times, and allows us to reach out to those around us for support. The Work Smart Live Smart flash briefing focuses on helping you to Harness Your Energy, Build Your Resiliency and Protect Your Mental Health!
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Sunday Jun 29, 2025
TIP 2473 – SOS To Stress
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
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Coping with stress is simple…though not always easy.”
We hear so much about stress. Most of it negative. Most of it about the sources or symptoms. Some of it inaccurate. And much of it not helpful.
Tomorrow is SOS To STRESS Day
This day was conceived because we need to hear more about how to deal with stress and build our resiliency. We already know that it is bad to be “under” too much stress. We need to know what options we have to deal with it.
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Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating SOS To Stress Day:
SOS To STRESS Day is about coping. It is about finding the right strategies to take care of the situations and ourself.
What Do Sleep, Sex and Sweaty Palms Have In Common?
They are all impacted by stress. Stress plays on our minds and keeps up awake at night. It can lower our libido. It brings about headaches, high blood pressure and sweaty palms. So, how do we determine the right strategies to deal with so many different sources of stress and such a large variety of symptoms?
The S-O-S Principle helps us to ensure that no matter what we are facing we are able to best take care of the Situation and Ourselves and be Supported while we are doing this.
There is no one way to deal with stress…despite what others may suggest or tell you. It is about designing a plan with sufficient strategies to be successful, healthy and happy.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for more ways to build your resiliency, take my free on-line resiliency test at worksmartlivesmart.com under the resources and courses tab.
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Saturday Jun 28, 2025
TIP 2472 – Celebrating Marriage
Saturday Jun 28, 2025
Saturday Jun 28, 2025
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I have been married for over 25 years…and yes, to the same person. I love the way that we fit together. We have our own interests and our own, very different careers. We share in the chores and in being the ‘bad’ guy to our children. I like hanging out with him. I miss him when he is gone away. He can make me laugh.
Is it perfect? No. We argue, we’re loud, and we go to bed angry…but not very often.
Statistics show that about 90% of adults will get married at least once in their lives but many of them get disappointed because in the end, it is not the stuff that fairy tales are made of. It isn’t all “lovey dovey” or hot and passionate.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Happy, Healthy Marriage Day:
I was doing a web search of how to have a happy, healthy marriage…here are some of my favourites…
Marry someone that you enjoy listening and talking to.
Compliment more than you criticize.
Remember that people do fight. It’s how you do it that matters.
Never pass up an opportunity to say “I love you“.
Love isn’t always a feeling, it’s a decision.
Never compare your marriage to others. What you see on the outside is not always what it is on the inside. The grass always seems greener until you get there.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Discover how to take small steps towards a healthier, happier, less-stressed you by visiting my website at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Friday Jun 27, 2025
TIP 2471 – Post-Traumatic Stress
Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
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Our lives can become filled with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty and with little information on where to turn, we find ourselves struggling on our own. We know that this stress can have a profound effect on our health and the lives of those around us.
Traumatic events can bring about an extreme stress disorder. Whether it be living through an earthquake, surviving childhood abuse, witnessing violent acts of terrorism or being a first responder to an accident, all of these can bring about PTSD. Post-traumatic Stress can seemingly creep into our lives when we least expect it.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating PTSD Awareness Day:
Treatment depends on the severity and persistence of symptoms. Support, debriefing, therapy, and medications have all been shown to be effective ways of managing PTSD.
We do know that having the opportunity to share your feelings and memories with others who have also experienced similar tragedies can be helpful in processing and recovering from a trauma.
The number one tip is: Don’t Be Afraid To Reach Out For Support
We must develop our supports as they can provide a protective barrier. Talk to friends and family about your fears. If they seem overwhelming contact your doctor or a counselor. Your workplace Human Resources Department or Employee Assistance Program may also be a valuable support.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
For more information on coping with mental health issues, sign up for one of my on-line courses at worksmartlivesmart.com under the resources and courses tab.
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Thursday Jun 26, 2025
TIP 2470 – Education Is The Key To Reducing Drug Use
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
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The United Nations estimates today that more than 240 million people in the world suffer from illicit drug use. This represents 4.7% of the world’s population. The breadth of the global drug problem carries a heavy burden on public health systems and workplaces with respect to treatments, care and prevention.
In the world, a third of all substance abusers are women. Women are more inclined to consume opioids and prescription tranquillizers compared to men, who would be 3 times more likely to consume cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking:
Substance use may cause issues at work by impacting a person’s judgment, alertness, perception, motor coordination or emotional state which also impacts working safely or making safety sensitive decisions.
Certain elements of work may contribute to the use of substances such as high stress, high demand/low control situations, low job satisfaction, long hours or irregular shifts, and fatigue.
Employers need to design policies which outline what is an acceptable code of behaviour and what is not. By establishing or promoting programs such as an Employee Assistance Program, employees can gain better access to community services.
Education is the key. Managers and supervisors should continue to be educated on how to recognize and deal with substance use issues, and employees should continue to offer educational programs about positive coping strategies and where to go if help is needed.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for resources to build your healthy workplace? Check out my top 10 tips under Resources and Courses at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
TIP 2469 – Rebuild Your Life Month
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
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Some days when things are so hectic, I forget where I am supposed to be or I leave important notes and items back at my office. I struggle daily with trying not to be a perfectionist. Sometimes my total focus is on family issues and I haven’t tackled any of the jobs on my desk. Other times when I am so pressured to meet a deadline, that even saying good night to my family seems too much of a distraction.
There are habits and strategies that I use to keep me, and my family organized, and to maintain my health. My afternoon nap allows me to recoup from my working day and gear up for my evenings spent teaching karate. Spring and summer are my favourite time of year and there is nothing better than a day spent away from my office gardening, cutting the grass, or just sitting on the patio.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Rebuild Your Life Month:
Finding the right balance is important for ourselves and for our organizations.
Life is busy and often we are pulled in many directions. Balance is not about equality in all areas of life. It is about making choices and living in a way in which you feel motivated and satisfied with the way your life is going.
If your life is not exactly how you want it to be, take the time to rethink your strategies and look for ways to rebuild your resiliency.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Discover how to take small steps towards a healthier, happier, less-stressed you by visiting my website at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
TIP 2468 – Celebrating Our Senses
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
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Taste, touch, sight, sound and smell.
We are often bombarded and feel that we are on sensory overload.
Most everything we know, feel, understand, and struggle with comes through our senses, including pain and pleasure. But how often do you actually pay attention to your specific senses?
By focusing on all five of our senses, we can promote health and wellbeing in our workplace. We can use these individual senses to boost our creativity, productivity and happiness.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Celebration Of The Senses Day:
Look for ways to boost each of the five senses in your workplace.
Taste. Did you know that chewing gum can help you stay focused for longer on tasks that require continuous monitoring? And that chewing gum can improve concentration in visual memory tasks?
Touch. I like having squish toys to play with while I am on the phone or listening to an on-line learning course. It helps me to concentrate more on what is being said. And research has found that these fidget toys are most beneficial to those who are more kinesthetic learners.
Sight. Try adding a bouquet of flowers. One study found that including plants and flowers in your work environment improved productivity and creativity.
Sound. Research from Cornell University found that employees who listened to happy music were able to cooperate and make group decisions better than employees who worked without a background soundtrack. If you’re going to play music in your workplace, the most important thing you need to do is match the type and tempo of the music to the task and level of concentration required.
Smell. Scents are tied directly to the part of the brain that is linked to memory and emotion, so scents can influence both. Some scents are known to reduce stress, others are known to improve productivity. Play around with mild scents in your workspace to see what you prefer, just remember not to interfere with your colleagues and their ability to enjoy their workspace.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Discover how to take small steps towards a healthier, happier, less-stressed you by visiting my website at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Monday Jun 23, 2025
TIP 2467 – Let It Go
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
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Make it a point to never regret. Regret is an appalling waste of energy. It is only good for wallowing in.
Regretful Situations and Difficult People.
These can play on our minds and lead us to becoming angry, frustrated, hurt, guilt-ridden or even embarrassed.
Moving past these situations can be difficult. Your logical mind wants to work it out so that it doesn't happen again. You focus on the “what if’s” and “if only’s”. You replay the situation over and over. Letting go feels like we are admitting that we were wrong in some way.
Holding on to pain doesn’t fix anything. Replaying the past over and over again, doesn’t change it, and wishing things were different, doesn’t make it so.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Let It Go Day:
Identify those situations or people that pushed your ‘buttons’
Try to look at the situation or person without judgement. What lesson can you learn, and appreciate that you have learned that lesson
Recognize the emotions behind these situations and then do something to relieve the tension. Try deep breathing, a hobby or exercise
Positive self-talk. Reaffirm that you are doing the best that you can and that letting go is not 'wrong'
Finally, rely on your positive supports to keep the situation in perspective
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for resources to build your healthy workplace? Check out my top 10 tips under Resources and Courses at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Sunday Jun 22, 2025
TIP 2466 – Develop Your People Skills
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
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So what are people skills? And why do these skills matter in this age where communication is more focused on texting and messaging?
People Skills are a set of skills enabling a person to get along with others, to communicate their ideas effectively, to resolve conflicts, and to achieve personal and business goals.
One issue of having information at the tips of our fingers all times is that you can get any answer to a question, anytime and anywhere, by simply typing it into a mobile device or computer. Many have not learned to branch out, ask questions and connect with other humans to learn and gain people skills.
One of the most important factors in gaining influence and achieving success, is developing strong, positive, and effective people skills.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating International People Skills Month:
Learn to ask great questions that people are excited to answer and then listen attentively. You will engage at a much deeper level than the superficial ‘how are you doing?’’
Be authentic. Authenticity breeds trust, and trust breeds relationships.
Engage with a story. The secret to persuading people is to tell an effective story. Connect to their head, heart and soul.
Be contagious. A bad mood impacts those around us. A good mood, full of energy can produce more energy in others.
Employers often seek out those who have these strong interpersonal skills as they have the ability to work collaboratively, communicate effectively and display the commitment and work ethic that they require.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for more ways to build your resiliency? Take my free on-line resiliency test at worksmartlivesmart.com under the resources and courses tab.
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Saturday Jun 21, 2025
TIP 2465 – Is The Handshake Gone Forever?
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
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How ironic that today we are to be celebrating one of the most common greetings between two people.
The handshake was a gesture of peace, demonstrated by the fact that the hands held no weapons.
Today, a handshake is offered upon meeting or parting. It is an expression of goodwill, gratitude and congratulations. Sometimes it is used in making a bet and confirming the bet with a handshake. There are also secret handshakes, those elaborate greetings signalling membership in a group or society.
Research shows people with firmer handshakes are viewed as more positive and outgoing and less socially anxious.
Do you dislike the thought of shaking another person’s hand or feel that we should do away with this handshake all together especially in light of current health issues? Many people do.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating World Handshake Day:
When and if we ever get back to feeling comfortable using the handshake again, remember that it should be positive, friendly, warm, and welcoming. A handshake is a way of creating and sustaining relationships. Avoid using the crushing alpha handshake or the flaccid dead fish handshake.
During these current times you can replace the handshake with these acceptable greetings in addition to the popular foot tap or the elbow touch.
The Namaste which is a traditional Hindu greeting, is done by bowing slightly, palms pressed together toward your chest, with your fingertips pointing up.
Just like the foot tap, don't say "hello" with your hands – when you can say it with your brows. Greet your colleague with a raise brows and smile
Another popular way to greet someone is by bringing your hand to your heart.
Finally, you can replace the handshake with the sign language wave. Bring one hand to the top of your forehead, then flick your wrist away from your head like a small wave or with the Shaka sign which you may also know as the wave of the surfer dude.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for more tips to build your resiliency? Look for my book on Amazon called Stress Out. 52 Weeks To Letting More Life In
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Friday Jun 20, 2025
TIP 2464 – Take Back Your Lunch Break
Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
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It is time to take make sure that we take our lunch break.
North American workers who take a lunch break every day scored higher on a wide range of engagement metrics, including job satisfaction, likelihood to continue working at the same company, and likelihood to recommend their employer to others.
And though we would like to blame others for not taking our lunch break, that doesn’t seem to be the case in reality.
It seems that our workload is a much greater influence on whether or not we take a lunch break than our boss or company policy. And if we do eat, we tend to stay at our desks and nibble while we work.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Take Back The Lunch Break Day:
Know that it is essential to take that lunch break in order to maintain your energy and productivity.
38% of employees don’t feel encouraged to take a lunch break.
It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure healthy habits within the workplace.
So, invite a friend to go for a lunchtime walk. The light break and exercise will boost your mental health and your immunity.
If you are the boss, model healthy habits by not calling lunch time meetings.
Encourage your team to leave their desks for lunch.
Prolonged sitting is a health risk, so get up, stretch, grab something to eat, and change the scenery.
Your mind and body will thank you.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
TIP 2463 – Why It’s Time To Break For Recess
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
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I remember running out of the school double doors to get to the swing first.
We all hated when it rained, and we had to stay indoors in the classroom reading quietly.
Recess was the best part of my school day. In fact, we know from our research that school children who receive more recess time behaved better and were likely to learn more. But recess time is declining. Since the 1970s, children have lost about 12 hours per week in free time. And adults are suffering too.
In our workplace we don’t call it recess, we call it break time. And according to research, 1 in 4 of us barely even get up from our desk to go for a bio break, let alone get outside. There is no excitement. No energy. And almost certainly, no fun.
When we don’t take a break we create a stressful workplace. And when we don’t restore our energy, we are setting ourselves and our companies up for higher stress, lower morale and engagement, poor creativity and employee performance issues.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Recess At Work Day:
Change your mindset. Breaks are a necessity, not a luxury. Workers who failed to take breaks were at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease.
A recess mind-set is an opportunity to build resiliency, create team spirit, engage employees, increase morale, improve health and wellness and share some fun with those that you work with.
So, What are you favourite workplace fun activities?
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for resources to build your healthy workplace? Check out my top 10 tips under Resources and Courses at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
TIP 2462 – Show Respect
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
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A Stanford survey reported that 85% of job success depends on utilizing proper business etiquette. Another report said that 69% of leaders would fire an employee who demonstrated bad office manners.
National Business Etiquette Week also recognizes the need for proper business etiquette in order to compete in the growing global marketplace. This can include everything from how to network, to the proper handshake, and how to remember names.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating National Business Etiquette Week:
“Can you hear me now?” When it comes to the use of cell phones in everyday society, we not only hear you now, we hear everyone else too—nearly everywhere we go. Step away from a shared workspace to conduct your business, so as to show respect for your co-workers, especially during a meeting.
No one likes to think that someone is wasting their time, especially when there are deadlines to meet. So arrive on time for your meetings.
Everyone should practice good manners. Common bad manners at work include things like loud ringtones, talking and chewing, and not cleaning up after yourself.
Especially, if you are doing business internationally, do your research. Do you bow, kiss or shake hands with a guest from another culture? Research will help create respect and eliminate cultural faux pas.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for resources to build your healthy workplace? Check out my top 10 tips under Resources and Courses at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
TIP 2461 – Stay Safe
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
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I have done it. And I have watched others do it. You get caught up or too busy and you stop paying attention to what is right in front of you and BOOM, you walk right into that wall, post, or obstacle.
Injuries are one of the leading causes of death for those ages 1 to 44. The good news is there are many things people can do to stay safe and prevent injuries. Hazards exist, but creating a culture of safety protects and defends against those hazards.
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Here Are Today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating National Safety Month at your workplace:
What is the No. 2 cause of nonfatal disabling injury, in the workplace, following overexertion? Is it
- Improper use of protective equipment
- Stress
- Improper ergonomics or
- Slips, trips and falls
You guessed it, it is slips, trips and falls.
In your workplace, look to bring additional awareness to these hazards during the Safety Month by:
- Holding a safety trivia contest
- Making an activity out of identifying hazards where you work and live
- Hosting a safety fair, lunch 'n learn or celebratory luncheon
- Provide additional safety training
Finally, stay safe by being more aware of your surroundings. Be present and get rid of distractions.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for more ways to build your resiliency? Take my free on-line resiliency test at worksmartlivesmart.com under the resources and courses tab.
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Monday Jun 16, 2025
TIP 2460 – Focusing On Professional Wellness
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
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June is a time of reflection.
The goal of Professional Wellness Month is to encourage you to reflect on how your health and wellness intersect with your professional life.
One of the main sources of stress at work is having too much to do and not enough time to do it in. Examine your workload. Are you working copious amounts of overtime? Have you stop taking breaks? Are you feeling vacation deprived?
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Professional Wellness Month:
If workload is the reason you're unable to take breaks or vacation, discuss the problem with your manager to find a solution. It is important to know when to ask for help, rather than letting the stress build to the point of burnout, anxiety or depression.
Eating well, exercising, attending to our health and feeling good, makes you more productive at work. So build in strategies to take care of your biological needs, as well as strategies to give yourself a break from your workplace stress.
Get a life outside of work. Focus on hobbies, friends, and family. Unplug and learn to focus on these activities and relationships. Focusing more on your time away from work will benefit your energy and creativity while you are at work.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for resources to build your healthy workplace? Check out my top 10 tips under Resources and Courses at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Sunday Jun 15, 2025
TIP 2459 – Capture A Moment
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
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Once there was a time when photography didn’t exist. A time when precious moments couldn’t be captured, uploaded and shared.
I look back at my baby pictures and there were only a handful. My mom and dad had a single picture each and I don’t know if I have ever saw one of any of my grandparents when they were really young. Compare all of that to the albums upon albums that I have of my sons who are now young adults.
Today, we don’t even print all of our pictures, but save them to on-line albums or files to be viewed at any given instant.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
Photography is a great hobby that can help us build our resiliency. It is something to take our minds off of all of our stressful life situations.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Nature Photography Day:
Photography can be a means to get out and physically active. Use your camera to take note of the awesome or the bizarre. Have some fun looking for the humour in everyday life.
Photography is a good activity to strengthen relationships. Make it an outing and invite others to join you. Visit the park or a natural habitat and spend time discussing what you see.
So what is the funniest photograph that you have ever taken?
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for more tips to build your resiliency? Look for my book on Amazon called Stress Out. 52 Weeks To Letting More Life In
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Saturday Jun 14, 2025
TIP 2458 – Be A Blood Donor
Saturday Jun 14, 2025
Saturday Jun 14, 2025
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Today is a world-wide celebration to honour and thank those people who donate their blood without any reward, except the knowledge that they have helped to save lives.
This day has particular significance as it is the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the Nobel Prize winner who discovered the ABO blood group system.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Blood Donor Day:
Get others involved and it makes it easier to remember to donate, and less anxious for those who have never gone before.
Get your office or organization involved and promote it through your on-line or internal communications
Get your family involved – go together and make it a family-giving project
Be a role model for others – I love how my mom still goes regularly to donate.
With our lives being so busy it is easy to forget to do this simple little act of kindness. But this little act can mean the difference between life and death.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Looking for more ways to build your resiliency? Take my free on-line resiliency test at worksmartlivesmart.com under the resources and courses tab.
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Friday Jun 13, 2025
TIP 2457 – Random Acts Of Light
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
This quote by Edith Wharton encourages us to bring light to someone who has been touched by the darkness.
Many are living in darkness while struggling with illness. These illnesses may be depression, chronic pain, or battling cancer and the struggle they are facing may be draining the light from their life.
Random Acts of Light encourage everyone to show a random act of light for a friend or loved one with cancer or other illness. Initiatives are being taken across the country to show support, one person at a time.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Random Acts Of Light Day:
Light The Night showcases the progress being made in the cancer arena along with the importance of supporting patients, one at a time.
Bring light to someone you know. This can be any random act, big or small.
Surprise someone at the hospital with a meal, gift certificate or kind gesture.
Gift a cancer patient or survivor with tickets to a sporting event, or gear from a favorite team.
Treat a local survivor or patient or colleague to a manicure, pedicure or massage.
Take those in need out for coffee, ice cream, breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Sometimes it takes just one gentle word or small token to help overcome darkness.
Remember, If you like today’s wellness tips, let me know. You can leave me a review on amazon or through your #alexa app.
Discover how to take small steps towards a healthier, happier, less-stressed, you by visiting my website at worksmartlivesmart.com
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Thursday Jun 12, 2025
TIP 2456 – Super Human Is Not A Hero
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s Superman.
Superman has always stood for what’s best about humanity and for bearing adversity and emerge stronger on the other side.
Though we may not be superman, we may be suffering with the Super-Human Syndrome.
Are you running on empty and lying to yourself saying, “I can handle this”?
- Do you believe you can, should and must do it all?
- Feel you could and should do more?
- Neglect your personal needs because others are more important?
- Or believe that if I don’t who will?
If so, you are probably dealing with the Super-Human Syndrome and are risking your physical and mental health.
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So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Super-Human Day:
There is a saying that I love – How thin can I spread myself before I know longer exist?
We must take care of ourselves first and foremost if we want to be in a position to take care of others.
Sometimes we need to let go of those things that are causing us to get stressed – unnecessary tasks and unrealistic beliefs and expectations
What is it that you need to let go of – the need for control – approval - to do it all – to be superhuman – and get is all done?
Start by knowing what is important to you and then actively decide how to make those things a priority.
Sometimes all that is needed is some fine tuning – some simple strategies that energize or relax us and enable us to enjoy the life situations that we are facing.
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Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
TIP 2455 – Make Life Beautiful
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
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Today is a day dedicated to encouraging and celebrating those who are making life beautiful. Whether you’re creating beauty through your art, music, relationships or helping others achieve personal success.
One small action can lead to a ripple effect.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!
So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Making Life Beautiful Day:
Help someone achieve a personal goal.
Donate time to a worthy cause.
Clean up a community space.
Create a work of art.
Refinish and repurpose something old.
Plant a garden or send someone some flowers.
Connect with a friend.
Thank a colleague.
Share a smile.
Expect the best, not the worst.
Choose joy. Making life beautiful starts with you and choosing joy will get your attitude on the right track to making an impact in the world.
There’s no real wrong way to celebrate National Making Life Beautiful Day, as long as you do something and keep focused on making life beautiful.
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Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
TIP 2454 – Smile and Take Care Of Your Oral Health
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
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Want to live longer?
Then smile more.
Smiling is contagious. It changes our mood. It fights stress and builds your resiliency. Smiling boosts your immune system. It lowers your blood pressure and blocks pain.
Part of National Smile Month is about maintaining good oral health. I just recently went to see my dentist and I didn’t have it in me to lie about flossing my teeth. I just don’t take the time, especially as life gets busy and rushed. And I am not the only one.
Currently, research shows that a significant number of us have taken time off work in the last five years due to poor oral health. Most problems with teeth and gums are preventable with a good daily routine. Furthermore, a quarter of all adults have not visited a dentist in the past two years and a similar number only brush their teeth once a day.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!
Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating National Smile Month:
The Oral Health Foundations recommends that we brush our teeth right before going to bed at night and on at least one other occasion throughout the day with a fluoride toothpaste. We should also cut down on how much sugary food and drinks we have, and how often we have them. And finally, we need to go to see our dentist regularly.
Ultimately, the aim is to help us achieve good physical and mental wellbeing by improving our oral health.
A smile might be a small gesture, yet it can have a remarkable effect on our state of mind, as well as the emotional happiness of others.
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