Time Management Tips - Generate More Energy, Capacity, and Live Longer Using Movement Moments

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Time management tips can work against you if you over-value productivity. Do you habitually plunk yourself down at your desk for hours on end, wrapping up tasks without regular breaks? If so, you risk shortening your life dramatically.

Recent evidence suggests that the body is poorly suited for prolonged periods of sitting. The American Heart Association's journal, Circulation, has published a report that every additional hour spent watching television daily without rising from the couch increases the risk of mortality from heart disease by 18%! If you sit without moving for four hours running on a daily basis, your susceptibility to death from cardiovascular disease increases by 80%, compared to those who remain seated for two hours straight or less.

This study, notably, used a control group that met exercise guidelines. And one's diet did not alter these results.

It seems counter-intuitive that those who exercise and eat sensibly are so affected. Evidently studies indicate a strong correlation between overall sedentary time and increased blood lipids, blood glucose and fat tissue. And this holds just as true for those who engage in moderate to vigorous activity numerous times during the week.

Fortunately, you can maintain your effectiveness and safeguard your health, as well. To reduce this particular set of risk factors, you needn't set aside hours to exercise. All you need is "Movement Moments" - a minute here and there, to break up periods of sitting. Something this simple helps convert the cholesterol in your blood from LDL (the bad cholesterol) into HDL (the healthy kind).

That's not all. Numerous brief breaks spent in motion, flexing muscles and stretching also helps lower the body mass index, reduce the size of one's waist, and promotes more effective metabolism of glucose as well as lowering blood lipid levels. Easy, fast and free!

Movement Moments Are a Time-Wise Solution

Every 45 minutes or so, try creating brief Movement Moments for yourself. Use a timer if that helps jog your memory. At 45-minute intervals stop what you are doing, get up, and move in whatever way feels good to you. (Do this in privacy, if you can, so that you don't feel constrained.) Try these, and add your favorites:

9 Finest Fast & Free Exercise Bursts

1. Lift weights, large or small

2. Ascend and descend stairways.

3. Dancing

4. Jumping jacks

5. Perform leg lunges

6. Leg lifts or situps

7. Stretching

8. Shaking tension from your arms and legs

9. Whatever feels right at the moment!

Do the movements you choose vigorously for about a minute; then you can return to work refreshed. It hardly interrupts your flow, and your energy flows more freely.

As you give yourself the gift of Movement Moments throughout your day, notice how they affect your energy, focus, and productivity. Try keeping track of this for a week, and see what you discover!

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