During the workday, enjoy yoga to stay focused, energized, and (ahem) firm.

 

Yoga can help you at work.  It not only offers solutions for a restless mind, it’s also a fun break that can keep you feeling good physically.  For the uninitiated, yoga often is viewed in one of two ways:

Whether or not you are a telecommuter, you probably have an “office area” in your home.  This might be a fully dedicated, fully equipped room with a lock and key, or it may be any number of variations on the table + office supplies combination: the computer desk tucked into the corner of an untidy family room; the laptop and folding table hastily setup and broken down each day between the couch and the TV; or the workbench and printer buried in a basement near the laundry and water heater.  

Games?  Magazines?  Rest?  Who needs them?  When you’re a telecommuter, you’ve got a lot of (extra) work to do!

1. Neighborhood Watch
You will after all, be appointed a part of the unofficial “neighborhood watch” for your block – much like the seniors who sit on their front porches and doze – once your neighbors discover that you don’t “go to work” everyday.

 

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You’ve decided you want to be a telecommuter.  You want to work from home, make your own hours, and see more of your kids, your partner, your dog, your garden.  You want work-time flexibility and less stress.  Telecommuting will be your savior, it being the perfect solution to your problems with office politics, bureaucracy, backstabbing, waste, and all that “stuff” on the usual list of corporate fallacies.  Telecommuting will shield you from all that.  Right?  Maybe.

One of the most important lessons I have learned is that working at my laptop for 12 hours without a break will cause my neck to hurt. Really badly. I should have known it, I guess, but I get so involved with my work that I simply forget to pay attention to my posture. After a particularly bad episode of neck pain, I decided to set up a little ergonomic laptop workstation.