Topic: Organization

Can This Crazy New Office Chair Cure Your ‘Sitting Disease’?

Can This Crazy New Office Chair Cure Your â��Sitting Diseaseâ��?

I don’t want to alarm you, but in case you haven’t heard by now, your conventional office chair is probably killing you as you read this. Sitting is so dangerous that one Mayo Clinic doctor calls its effects — heart disease, diabetes, death — “sitting disease.” Standing burns three times as many calories as sitting, and extra gym time can’t make up for that. Your chair is a slow-moving death trap. But the increasingly popular standing desks aren’t for everyone. (Admit it: They sound kind of exhausting!) So one designer has come up with the contraption you see here: A standing desk fitted with a small tilted leather seat meant for leaning, not sitting or standing. More »

8 Spring Cleaning Tasks You Shouldn’t Skip

You can skip dusting your door tops or whatever it is your mother told you to do each spring. But some out-with-the-old/in-with-the-new tasks are worth it, for your health or peace of mind. From tuning up your bike to washing reusable grocery bags and stocking the bar, 8 easy and mostly eco-friendly spring cleaning tasks to keep in mind as you prepare your home, body and mind for spring. More »

Good at Life: Try Keeping A Time Diary

I’ve been re-reading my favorite how-to-be-good-at-life book, Laura Vanderkam‘s 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, and it’s no less inspiring the second time around. The book’s basic thrust is that the whole ‘not enough time in the day’ gripe, and the idea that we’re all over-worked and under-leisured, is a myth (time use studies have even shown that we tend to over-estimate time spent working and underestimate time spent on other things, like surfing the internet or watching TV). We all have 168 hours in a week—if you subtract 40 hours of work a week, eight hours of sleep per night and one hour per work day commuting, that still leaves 67 hours per week for other things (and that’s provided you’re working a full 40-hours each week and sleeping a full eight hours every night). More »

Morning Links: Get Organic Foods For A Reasonable Price

• Make breaking a sweat good for your body and skin. (Well + Good)

• Eating in certain places may be contributing to your weight gain. (Fit Sugar)

• Organic foods you can get for $5. (Organic Authority)

• Beginners guide to a beach body, exercises you can do anywhere. (HuffPost Fitness)

• Most romantic part of romance — through the mind of a man. (The Frisky)

• Valerie Bertinelli talks about the upside of getting older. (Prevention)

• Tips for straightening up your home. (Shelterpop)

• Get yourself out of a rut. (Third Age)

• Try out this anti-fatigue eye mask. (Truth In Aging)

• Stop dissing your beautiful bod. (YouBeauty)

• How you feel about your body may be affecting your relationship. (Your Tango)

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Morning Links: Escape The Heat With This Full-Body Pool Workout

• Escape the heat with this full-body pool workout (no swimming required) (Fit Sugar)

• New York City’s beauty bartender Diana Seo (Well + Good)

• 5 ways to smell good, without deodorant (Organic Authority)

• Happy meals are getting healthier (That’s Fit)

• Approval matrix: sexy vs. unsexy hobbies for dudes (The Frisky)

• How much sleep do you really need? (YouBeauty)

•How to glow like J-Lo (Truth In Aging)

• 7 easy ways to be mentally fit (Third Age)

• Easy home office organizing tricks that work (Shelterpop)

• Try this Zucchini Cake recipe for your afternoon snack (Vitamin G)

• The basic ways we change (Your Tango)

Why Do We Women Cram Our Closets With Clothes That Don’t Fit?

Check out this post from Heather Muse on Lemondrop.

You may have a nice, sack-like dress for “fat” days and “skinny jeans” for when you’re feeling extra-hot, but have you ever thought about how much the clothes you don’t wear cost you?

According to research conducted by British grain manufacturers’ group Wholegrain Goodness, women own about 12 outfits that don’t fit them, totaling about $450 for the lot. More »

Typically Typecast as a Type-A Type? Then check out these 6 organizational obsessions (both high- and low-tech) – or at least put them on your to-do list. (via The Frisky)

Fall Shopping: Back to Work With 10 Autumn Essentials Under $10

As much as we hate to admit it, summer is almost over. And that means no more summer hours, summer vacations, or daily ice cream cones. But we’ll help make the butterflies-in-your-stomach transition as easy (and cheap!) as possible with 10 fall essentials under $10. What’s better than that? Definitely not getting up when it’s still dark outside. That may be the hardest thing in the world. More »