Wellness

by / on August 20, 2015 at 5:35 pm / in Wellness

We Create Our Stories

Our mental, emotional and physical environment dictates our physical health. If we live in a pleasant environment we’re more likely to have healthy, pleasant cells. If we live in an unpleasant environment we will experience unhealthy cells and our body reacts accordingly. Our job, therefore, is to create an environment of balance, love and purpose. At times our environment seems […]

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by / on August 19, 2015 at 2:48 pm / in Wellness

EXIT Welcomes Erica Nasby as the Latest Contributor to Focus on Good Health

EXIT Realty’s Focus on Good Health initiative is gaining momentum across the continent. Originally created to encourage busy real estate professionals to develop a healthy, balanced lifestyle, thanks to the power of social media the blog now boasts a much wider readership. Building on that momentum, Focus on Good Health is pleased to introduce Erica Nasby as its latest contributor. […]

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by / on April 8, 2015 at 8:45 am / in Wellness

Focus on Sleep

To ensure that you’re doing all that you can to maximize high-quality, restful sleep, following are some tips for counting sheep like a rock star: Maintain regular sleep habits: Experts in sleep medicine like to call this “sleep hygiene”, the ways in which we ensure refreshing sleep night after night. Go to bed and get up roughly the same time […]

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by / on March 25, 2015 at 8:30 am / in Wellness

Spring into Business!

Spring is a time to review, renew and revive as we get our business in shape for the rest of the year. Our on-site wellness workshops (offered via DREAM Wellness in New York) typically encourage employees to shape up but who is ensuring that our organizations’ wellness programs are in tip top shape? Will the wellness program of your organization […]

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by / on March 18, 2015 at 12:30 pm / in Wellness

Spring into Wellness!

We tend to make our health-related resolutions at New Year’s, but spring is a time for a brand new beginning. If your health and fitness resolutions have melted right along with the winter snow, think fresh and start over with enjoyable outdoor activities fueled by plenty of fresh fruits and veggies. This is the best time of year; the weather […]

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by / on January 27, 2015 at 8:45 am / in Wellness

New Year, New You!

In the Way of the Peaceful Warrior, author Dan Millman writes, “In order to help people, you first need to understand them. But you can’t understand someone else until you understand yourself. So know yourself and prepare yourself. Develop the clarity, the courage and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage in the right place at the right time. Then […]

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by / on December 31, 2014 at 3:45 pm / in Wellness

To Be or Not To Be: 7 Paths to Success

In 2015, shift some focus away from what you need to do and focus on who you need to be!  Who you “be” determines what you do and what you do determines what you have.  Remember, the “do” is just the bridge between the be and the have!  Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion!  You must light yourself […]

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by / on November 6, 2014 at 8:58 am / in Wellness

Live Life Like a 2-Minute Warning

An NFL game lasts 60 actual minutes televised over the course of about 3 hours. Did you ever think about the amount of time that the ball is actually in play during the game? Surprisingly, the average length of time that the ball is actually in play during the course of a single football game is 12 minutes, or only […]

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by / on November 4, 2014 at 12:58 pm / in Wellness

Overcoming Financial Inertia

The term “inertia” comes from the Latin word, iners, meaning idle or sluggish. The Principle of Inertia as described by Newton in his First Law of Motion is that an object not subject to any external force moves at a constant velocity. Thus, an object will continue moving at its current velocity until some force causes its speed or direction […]

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by / on October 16, 2014 at 9:05 am / in Wellness

Sleep Deprivation

Sleep deprivation can cause many harmful and potentially long term side effects. New parents and college students will probably agree with me when I say how much sleep is missed when you are not getting enough. Below are a few side effects that can come from lack of sleep: Short Term: Decreased performance and alertness Memory and cognitive impairment Stress […]

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