tip of the week: use your lunch hour

Are you guilty of “dining al desko”? Translation: are you guilty of eating your lunch at your desk, while continuing to work? If you say yes, you’re far from alone. The blog Embrace Your Heart covers the world of heart disease, and they’ve cited dining al desko as not just damaging to your morale but damaging to your body.

Staying chained to your desk is not healthy. The second assistant may not love you for asking her to cover the phones for fifteen minutes, but you deserve time to get up, walk around, and go outside. Even if you pack your lunch, eat it somewhere other than your desk–if you can get outside, do that. If not, try an empty conference room, and invite one or two of your coworkers to join you. The point is that you get a physical and mental boost from taking a break. You can rest your eyes from the harsh light of a computer. You can flip through a magazine and enjoy not stressing about work for a second. It’s allowed. We promise.

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