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Remember to Take
Care of Yourself
It’s very easy for
work at home moms
to become so busy with the challenges of balancing work and
family, that they forget to take care of themselves. However,
it doesn’t take long before the effects of self-neglect become
apparent and the woman’s health, her business, and family
suffer. The most important thing that every woman can do to
make sure that she performs both her work and family
responsibilities at optimum level, is set aside time each day
for her health and needs.
The most important
areas that a
stay at home mom
needs to pay close attention to is diet, sleep, exercise, and
stress release. To say picking up bad habits when you spend the
majority of your time in your home is an understatement, to say
the least. Many women may turn to caffeine when they need to
finish a deadline, sacrifice much needed sleep trying to finish
up last minute work related tasks, put off eating healthy meals
for fast alternatives, and find themselves running on empty when
its finally time to relax.
Not only are these
effects hard on the working mom, but they take their toll on her
children and husband as well.
Organization, goal
setting, and committing to a schedule are the best ways to
ensure that you take time each day to take care of your own
needs. First, you should make sure that you get roughly eight
hours of sleep each night. There is no way getting around it.
Without sleep, your body will not be able to refresh itself and
your mind will not be as alert. It may be necessary to cut back
on the amount of caffeine you are taking throughout the day to
ensure that you will be able to get the amount of rest that you
need each night. You may be tempted to forfeit sleep in an
attempt to meet work deadlines, but you’ll soon discover that
you can accomplish far more when well rested then when trying to
go the extra mile on an empty tank.
It seems that when a
woman has to juggle the responsibilities of raising children,
household chores, and running a business that one of the first
areas she begins to neglect is exercise. It is vitally
important that women continue to exercise. If you find that it
is too much to try to exercise daily, at least schedule yourself
three sessions of aerobic exercise per week. You exercise
should consist of at least 20 minutes and new research shows
that your workout doesn’t have to be consistent. This means
that you will reap the same amount of benefits by working out in
two ten minute sessions, or even four five minute sessions.
However, you’ll find that if you look for creative ways to fit
exercise in to your daily routine, you’ll be squeezing in enough
aerobic activity to stay healthy and fit. If you don’t like to
work out at home, consider joining a gym and committing to three
sessions per week. By making the effort to exercise regularly
you’ll reap many benefits including a natural defense against
stress and helping your body sleep regularly through the night.
Marcia Chumbley is a
work
at home mom and grandmother in Minnesota. She
is the owner of a
Christian Work From Home Moms website
at
Faithful Grannies
http://www.faithfulgrannies.com
bringing generations of
Christian Work From Home Moms,
Grandmothers, Parents, Boomers and Families together
while providing resources, inspiration and affordable
advertising while balancing the work at home experience. She
holds a degree in Business and is a CMOM.
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