Workaholics Beware!

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If you are like most people in the workplace, you are busy trying to figure out how to handle more work with fewer resources. But a behavioral medicine specialist at the Mayo Clinic says workplace stress can take a toll on your body. What to watch for: headaches, abdominal upset, disrupted sleep, fatigue, lack of patience and loss of sense of humor.

Once you know the pressure is mounting, take healthy steps to fend it off. Concentrate less on work and more on personal relationships – you’ll decrease stress and ultimately increase productivity. I hope these tips will help you.

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Workaholics Beware!

Get eight hours of sleep. While food has substitutes in the form of natural medicines or artificial foods, there are no substitutes for sleep and rest. Don’t believe that you can always “catch some sleep or rest later.”

Preserve your weekends. Make Saturdays and Sundays strictly personal time. Monday through Friday, you make an excuse not to relax and spend time with your family because it’s work time. Why not make a similar excuse to spend time with family and friends on the weekend?

Eat. Workaholics are known to be food-skippers.

Confine work to your office. Try not to bring it home.

Exercise. Set aside at least one hour each day or every other day for exercise.

Plan your day! It’s much easier to work on something and finish it first and then move on to the next rather than do a number of things at the same time and never finish or accomplish anything at the end of the day.

Work to live – don’t live to work. Always keep in mind that you work so you can live and have a comfortable life. Working is just one of the many useful and fruitful activities you do that enables you to live a good life and gives your family their needs.

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Joan Burge has been a visionary for administrative training and development since 1990. One of the first to venture into the administrative training industry, she has become an international administrative expert, trainer, author, and consultant. Joan Burge equips administrative professionals to move beyond task work to higher-level functions that meet the ever-changing demands of todays workplace. Best known for her highly-acclaimed Star Achievement Series®, a 12-part Certification and Designation training program designed to promote Star Performance among administrative, support and front-line staff. She is the creator and host of the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence, the World Class Assistant Certificate program, and more than 40 customized workshops and seminars for administrative professionals. Joan's most recent work Who Took My Pen ... Again? (2012 Burge, Fraze, Freeman) joins her many other groundbreaking books for the administrative profession which include Underneath It All; Postgraduate Level Revelations Lift Administrative Assistants to New Heights, Become an Inner Circle Assistant, 3 other books and 15 workbooks. She is the editor of Monday Motivators weekly e-zine and has been published in more than 100 trade journals. With her passion to fill a niche in the administrative education arena, she continually explores what is necessary to excel in that position. Before starting Office Dynamics International, Joan was an administrative professional for 20 years in 12 different companies in 5 states. She worked her way up from receptionist to assisting CEOs, serving in a variety of industries ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.
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