At this time of year, everything you see and hear is about starting a new healthy life style. “Make sure you get your daily exercise in so join our gym”. Or, “workout with your friends so take our classes”. It is very important in our role as Admins to make sure that we take care of ourselves. Our jobs can be very stressful and we can work at our desk for hours and forget to get up and move. I read somewhere that sitting is the new smoking. Yikes!!!! I follow several people/groups on Facebook who have a healthy life style through walking. #EveryDayWalking, started by Jannie Oosterhoff, is a group that takes beautiful pictures while they walk and posts them. It is very inspiring and I get to see pictures from all over the world. Women Walking:Women Talking and One Million Women Walking, both started by Heather Waring, are two groups that also post pictures of their walks. What do you do to stay physically healthy? Please share with us.
I believe that starting a new healthy life style also includes exercising our brain. Just like feeding your body healthy foods, it is imperative to feed your brain. Here are a few things I like to do to feed my brain:
Read books and blogs – there are so many great resources out there. Some new book releases this year that I have read and highly recommend include Tonya Dalton’s The Joy of Mission Out; Peggy Vasquez’s Mean Girl No More; Debbie Gross’s The Office Rockstar Playbook, Melissa Esquibel’s Dirty Data, and I am looking forward to reading Rhonda Scharf’s Alexa is stealing your job. I also enjoy reading blogs. A few that I have found this year are Kem Foley’s Admin Renegade; Melissa Peoples blog and Melissa Mosher’s Support Savvy Ninja. We can learn so much from each other. Do you have any books or blogs that have been helpful to you? Please share.
Watch webinars – I have written in earlier blog posts about my obsession with professional development through webinars. A few that continue to be my favorites are Joan Burge, ELS Forum, Julie Perrine, Chrissy Scivicque, Admin Chat with Lucy Brazier, and a new one I found this year is Sawbuck Seminars with Melissa Esquibel (they literally are $10!!!!!)
Listen to Podcasts – I have a 20-30 minute commute to work. It is a perfect time to listen to a podcast. Some new podcasts that I found this year are Jeremy Burrow’s The Leader Assistant and Liz Van Vliet’s Being Indispensable I listen again when I am able to write down ideas that I grab from these information packed episodes!!
What are you going to do to keep your mind and body healthy and happy in 2020? Remember 2020 equals perfect vision!!! See you in the New Year!!!
Jackie