“Mayo Clinic researchers discovered that inactivity simply due to sitting led to wild swings in metabolism… Even if you’re only seated for eight hours a day, your risk of death is still 15 percent greater than someone who sits for half that time.”

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How to Keep Your Job From Literally Killing You | BigThink.com | 4.14.12

“Meetings take up an ever-increasing amount of employees’, and particularly managers’ time. According to a survey by Office Team, a division of Robert Half International, 45 percent of senior executives surveyed said that their employees would be more productive if their firms banned meetings for a least one-day a week.”

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Why Meetings Kill Productivity | PsychologyToday.com | 4.15.2012

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“Here’s why we’re so obsessed with saving moments instead of savoring them: We’re wired to hoard. Humans are competitive…we love saying that we’ve ‘been there, done that.’ Social media platforms create…follower counts and virtual photo albums that make our experiences seem more tangible, giving us a false feeling of accumulation. It’s as if our most important experiences are now collectible.”

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Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing | HBR.org | 4.26.12

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“Number one time waster, you guessed it, email addiction. People use e-mail to procrastinate when they need to do a difficult task.” ~Julie Morgenstern via Twitter

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“According to the American Psychological Association, stress can result in headache, muscle tension, muscle pain, chest pain, fatigue, upset stomach, insomnia, anxiety, restlessness, lack of motivation, lack of focus, irritability, depression, eating problems, addiction … and social withdrawal. Yow!”

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“Researchers found that the more a worker exercised, the less likely his or her psychological health declined over a three year period. In fact, those who got at least 1.5 hours of exercise a week were half as likely to get depressed and experience job burnout over three years as those who never worked out.”

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“Known for their work ethic, Swiss citizens appear to be…rejecting a minimum six weeks paid holiday a year. [This] means vacation time will remain at four weeks.”

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“This time change is much trickier for our bodies to handle…so many of us aren’t getting enough shut-eye to begin with, and being robbed of an additional hour can put us over the edge.”

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Daylight Saving Time 2012: Could ‘Springing Forward’ Hurt Your Health? |  HuffingtonPost.com | 3.10.12

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“People reply to their close friends, on average, within seven hours of getting the email. Professional contacts take a bit more time: We don’t hit send for nearly 11 hours. On average, it took us 50 hours to reply. In other words, there’s a surprisingly easy way to figure out how you feel about someone—just count the hours before you hit the ‘reply’ button.”

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“Our human propensity [is] to pass feelings to one another in a phenomenon called emotional contagion. We volley emotions back and forth all the time, as part of every interaction we have with another person. We can “catch” other people’s anxiety, depression or stress – all with amazing speed and dexterity.”

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