Health: Eat more raw foods

Goal Setting, Health and Parenting Ezine

In today’s article
Time Management: Find time you didn’t know you had
Health: Eat more raw foods
Parenting: Volunteering


Time Management: Find time you didn’t know you had

In today’s article we will look at eight ways you can find time that you didn’t even know you had.

Clean up your desk and reduce paperwork: If things are a mess, it will take you a while to find everything that you need. If things are neat, you will easily find it. Take time out to get your paperwork and your filing system into order.
Get up early. Most successful people get up early and do their most important tasks first. Follow in the footsteps of the successful people and do the same.
Sleep 7-8 hours a nigh. No more no less. If you oversleep you waste time, if you under sleep you will be less productive. Find the balance that is right for you.
Know your body rhythm. Work our when you do your best work. Focus on your key tasks then.
WIN: Ask what is important now – and do it!!!
Delegate: Where tasks can be done by others, ask if they will do it!!! This is an art form in itself.
Use spare time and waiting time wisely: Successful people make the most out of all time, make sure you always have writing material or an educational book with you.
Rest and relax: Find time to rest and relax, you will feel better and be more productive.

Healthy: Eat more raw foods

In our society, we seem to have a love of cooking and heating things. This is especially true for vegetables. Yet, many vegetables can be eaten raw, and in fact, are a lot healthier raw.

For example. Broccoli (although a bad example because you should steam it lightly) losses 87 precent of its nutritional value if you microwave it.

Raw food has an abundance of vitamins, minerals and most importantly enzymes. Raw food can also reduce the chance of overeating, increase healthy and vitality, and reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

So as a starting point, make some changes in your diet to include raw foods. When you do have to cook foods, try steaming foods first, as foods maintain more of their natural goodness when cooked this way. If you can’t steam try boiling on a stove top. As a last resort use your mircrowave.

Parenting: Volunteering

Have you and your children considered volunteering to do things in your community? If you haven’t you might want to consider it.

Volunteering has many benefits. To the volunteer, it has been proven that there are health benefits such as boosting your immune system. Also when you help others out, chemicals that lift your mood are released into your body making you feel good.

In addition, there are benefits to the community you are helping, and you are also teaching your child the role that we can play in helping others. And most importantly, you will be spending some quality family time together.

So…find some local community/church groups that may need you and your families help – and help them!!!

In other views

Your editor is presenting at a conference in Latrobe Valley on Thursday and Friday of this week. Latrobe Valley is one of the rougher areas in Australia, and is home to numerous power plants, and many strange people.

The valley is made up of 3 main towns, the first of which ‘Moe’ is the butt of many Australian jokes. It has a reputation for moccasins, single mothers and drugs.

But the people of Moe are fighting back. No longer do they want their town to be spelt the traditional way, they want it changed, and they want to bring more class to the name.

So dear reader, in “The Age” one of Victoria’s main newspapers, it was proposed to change the name to “Moet”. Much more classy!!!

We wonder if it will take more than a name change to change the socio economic status of the town. We shall see what the Valley has to offer.

Cheers

Andrew Collings