Excerpt From: scotthyoung.com Energy, not time, is the basis for productivity. Having all the hours in the day won’t help you if you’re exhausted for most of it. Your habits define your energy levels. If you have good habits, you’ll feel energized and be more resilient to burn out, both physically and mentally. If your habits are misaligned, you can get into a cycle where you feel worse and worse, until your it’s a struggle just to keep up. Here are nine habits you can work o

Author: Regina del Rosario Source: Undercover Recruiter For most workers with a steady 9-to-5 job or 40-hour workweek, it can be pretty tricky to find the time to inject a healthy or active lifestyle in their daily routine. There are times when you get waist-deep with work that you end up missing a meal, or maybe the long day has worn you out that all you want to do when you get home is eat and sleep. This is most especially true for those who sit all day in their desks and

Author: Lisa Evans Source: FastCompany We all want to be liked by our friends, family, and coworkers, but if you’re constantly putting the wishes of others ahead of your own wants and needs, you may fall into the category of being a people pleaser. “While genuinely caring for others is an admirable trait, people-pleasing goes one step further, resulting in behaviors that may be detrimental to both our mental and physical health,” says Dr. Jeff Nalin, a clinical psychologist

Author: Selena Rezvani Source: Philadelphia Magazine It’s the end of a long workday. You just got home, and right when you collapse onto the couch to unwind, you look around and see dirty dishes in the sink and the mess of kids toys on the floor. You know you should do something about it, but the thought of lifting another finger sends you into a spiral. If that sounds like you, you might be experiencing “burnout,” and you’re not the only one. In fact, burnout is becoming so

Author: Peter Jones Source: The Job Network Millennials, contrary to some bad press, are actually kicking butt and taking names. They’re running marathons, shooting to the top of start-ups, and buying homes before the age of 30. But they’re also burning out at alarming rates. Working intensely long hours throughout one’s 20s can have a cumulative effect: exhaustion. This is partly due to unrealistic expectations, comparing yourself unfairly to other peers who are doing “bett

Authors: Amal Ahmed, Carrie Feibel, and Sarah Craig Source: KQED Residents in the path of wildfire smoke can take certain precautionary measures to protect their lungs from smoke pollution. The elderly, children and individuals with heart or respiratory conditions in particular are advised to filter air, limit outside activities or otherwise temporarily leave the impacted area. Children are especially sensitive to smoke pollution because their airways are still developing an

Author: Adnan Manzoor Source: LifeHack Staying fit is important for a healthy and active life. Nowadays life has become so busy that it is not always possible to take time for a workout, but working out is important. For working people, it can be challenging to maintain a good working out routine to stay fit. When you spend so much of your time sitting at a desk you need to take out some time for exercising to stay active. Working long hours can be exhausting and it is possib

The clock change is imminent, we can’t remember summer and the lure of the duvet feels stronger than ever, leaving us with no choice but to search ‘mood boosters’ on Google! Mood is a tricky commodity. A low mood is influenced by so much; often fickle by nature it can come and go or creep up on us unexpectedly as we drag our heels and struggle to get through the day. Interestingly, all the EU nutrition and health claims submitted for approval around ‘mood boosting foods’ have

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: The age of vertical farming is upon us, A true cure for HIV, a genetics breakthrough that could help cure aggressive cancers, a step closer to an artificial brain, and a quantum powered robotic exoskeleton. The Age of Vertical Farming is Upon Us As cities expand, eating up swathes of countryside in the process, agricultural p

Author: Chris Thomson Source: Undercover Recruiter Staying active at work is a predicament that affects pretty much anyone who works in an office or at home. From an evolutionary point of view, we’re not really meant to be spending long portions of the day sitting down; we should be out foraging for food, killing animals and other activities that involve us being on our feet. But things change. And the fact of the matter is that a huge number of us now spend most of our worki

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Growing new corneas to restore sight to the vision impaired, new “LiFi” method is 20 times faster setting records, clothes that “heal” themselves when torn, NASA selects the six prototypes that will take us into the future of deep space, and the gene responsible for Down Syndrome is identified. Cornea Cells Successfully Grown

Friday’s here again!  Welcome to Weekend Planner, your weekend update on fun. Every Friday we put together a list of the weekend events we think look most interesting and provide them here. Keep in mind there is always a lot more going on, and all it takes is a little digging to find something that will be the perfect activity for you. Click on any of the event titles for a link to the event. Friday, July 29 Stand Up and Get Down at Art Attack 2722A Hyde Street, San Francisco

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Elon Musk releases his updated master plan for Tesla, the U.S. and Russia make plans to go to the Moon together, new technology for a glasses-less 3D movie screen, a new auto steel that’s 30% lighter and 25% stronger, and an engineered living hip that eliminates arthritis pain. Elon Musk’s Master Plan 2.0 Elon Musk has been i

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Gene based computing, WiSE implant keeps your heart beating, fully synthetic human genome, brain-machine interface, and a potential “universal cancer vaccine”. Living Circuits Can Handle Complex Computing Gene-based circuits are about to get decidedly more sophisticated. MIT scientists have developed a method for integrating

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Data storage in DNA, swallowable electronics that monitor your health, lab made “black hole” sheds light on Hawking Radiation, a fully bendable smartphone, and Space X announces plans to land a spacecraft on Mars by 2018. Microsoft Experiment With DNA Data Storage Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology st

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Racing drones using your mind, an autonomous, voice controlled electric car, a new polymer that heals and twitches like muscle, getting a step closer to an everlasting battery, and a universal cure for allergies. University of Florida Holds World’s First Mind Controlled Drone Race Drone races are nothing new. But while they s

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: For the first time 3D printed drugs are commercially available, Tesla unveils their Model 3, Using stem cells to repair spinal injuries, a tiny solar panel for your phone, and new, super efficient batteries. The First 3D Printed Medicine Aprecia Pharmaceuticals has become the first medicine brand in the world to tap in the hu

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Scientists “delete” HIV from human cells, a simple synthetic cell could help us understand the most basic aspects of genetics, self cleaning textiles that could replace washing machines, a device that turns your smart phone into a 3d printer, and building a moon colony in just 6 years. Scientists Eliminate HIV-1 DNA from Huma

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Cancer treating nanoparticles, recovering memories for Alzheimer’s victims, DARPA is trying to build a “learning machine”, 3D printing cartilage, and creating “Omnifocal” glasses. Nanoparticles Effectively Treat Cancer in Mice For most cancer patients, it’s not the original tumor that poses the greatest risk. It’s the metasta

Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: A new procedure that allows kidney transplants from any donor, searching for life on Mars, a robot surgeon, bringing the Matrix to real life, and bringing space tourism to the masses. Open Sourced Kidneys In the anguishing wait for a new kidney, tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists may never find a match because the