This the 6th installment of the healthy habits for writers series.
The following are general life areas that very important. And they can bring to bear, a great deal of negative stress. Negative stress is the chronic, debilitating stress that threatens to block your productivity.
Stresses have threatened and succeeded in impeding my work on occasion. Still [...]
This is the 5th post from the healthy habits series.
You can’t Put Sleep Off Safely
It’s not because your brain turns off. Quite the contrary, in fact. Many people claim to need 3 or 4 hours of sleep and they’re fine. And, while they may actually be able to function, they are putting their bodies at [...]
This is the 4th installment for the posts from the healthy habits series. Even with the long pause between installments, I had to return to the set to share these things that have helped me.
Do you ever have trouble concentrating? Do you feel fatigued even when you’ve slept? Two hours ever feel like six? Have [...]
I knew I was in trouble when I couldn’t focus on any thoughts. I seemed to be moving through a never-lifting fog. Only with the greatest effort was I able to hold on to thoughts long enough to complete them.
Once I learned I needed to take iron, and that was squared away, I decided to [...]
This is the first installment for the post from the healthy habits series. Be sure to return for other entries in this set.
Do you know what to do when your health starts to flag?
You know how sometimes you get sick, your sinuses fill and apply pressure to your head to bulge, only there are [...]
Lately, the topic of healthy habits as a writer keeps coming up. I needed a starting place to consider what I was going to change. I’ve been reviewing my lifestyle and my less than stellar habits. I sometimes take health matters for granted, and allow bad habits to stand. In part it’s because I’m writing; [...]
