{"id":267,"date":"2018-02-28T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2018-03-10T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T05:23:51","slug":"march-towards-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/march-towards-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"March Towards Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago my little sister &#8211; who is currently in London, sent me a picture of herself doing aerial yoga. The moment I saw this I thought, &#8220;Gee, I really need to have a better work-life balance going on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong, my work-life balance isn&#8217;t horrendous. I try hard to switch off during the weekends and I do absolutely no work stuff at home. None. But I do notice I&#8217;ve already got some bad habits that need to get kicked out.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Habit Number 1: I stay too late at work.<\/p>\n<p>On several occasions I leave work at 7pm. That is WAY too late to stay at work. By the time I get home I barely have the energy to eat, let alone cook. When I lived only a 10minute train ride away going home at 7pm meant that I was home at the latest 7:30pm depending on the train schedule. Now that I live a 70 minute commute away I get home around 8:30pm if I&#8217;m lucky and all the buses line up! I&#8217;ve decided that moving into March that no matter where I&#8217;m up to in my work, I&#8217;m going to start packing up at 5:45 and leave work at 6pm (6:15 and 6:30 on Thursdays)<\/p>\n<p>Doing your best and working hard does not mean running yourself into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Habit Number 2: Not taking my lunch break away from work<\/p>\n<p>My workmates don&#8217;t like to leave the workplace during their lunch hour &#8211; partially because we work next to a mall and they do NOT want to spend any money, As a result, I&#8217;ve also stopped leaving my office during my lunch hour. Moving into March, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to start spending my lunch break outside of the office, even if it just means heating up my food and sitting down on a step outside my work.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Habit Number 3: Not doing enough exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I&#8217;ve moved further from work, completing exercise has become something I no longer have as part of my routine. Moving into March I&#8217;ve decided I will commit to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boxing once a week at 6.30pm on Thursday afternoon,<\/li>\n<li>A day of going to work using public transport and incidental exercise<\/li>\n<li>2 x 15 mins of light to moderate cardiovascular exercise a week<\/li>\n<li>2 x 15 mins of strength exercise a week<\/li>\n<li>1 x 10 min meditation a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to track all this using my Habit Tracker on my iPhone. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago my little sister &#8211; who is currently in London, sent me a picture of herself doing aerial yoga. The moment I saw this I thought, &#8220;Gee, I really need to have a better work-life balance going on&#8221;. 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