Winter Fatigue

It’s easy to feel fatigued and loss of energy in the winter months when sun light hours are shorter. To take advantage of the early morning sunlight, lift your bedroom shades the minute you get up. Better yet go out for a 30 minute walk. The sunlight and exercise will give you a boost all day long. To help keep your energy up go outside every chance you get all day. To up your light at work and home; use natural light bulbs- try “Sylvania’s Daylight Extra bulbs.” ( At retailers nationwide.) www.ott-lite.com, Or you might try a light-box that uses blue-light technology, for more info try; www.purenatural.com.

Eat plenty of protein to increase your mental alertness and energy. Protein contains tyrosine, an amino acid that elevates the brain chemical dopamine. It also makes your stomach feel fuller so you won’t be as apt to want to eat breads and sweets. Have an egg or high protein cereal for breakfast and a few nuts for your morning snack. A cup of yogurt is good for an afternoon snack to carry you over until dinner.

Do something for somebody to give yourself a lift. Buy a sandwich for a homeless person you pass on the street. Baby sit for a neighbor. Visit a lonely person who would enjoy a chat. Volunteer to help someone in need. To find something that suits you go to; www.idealist.org

Brew a white tea. White tea goes through the least processing and requires little sweetening. White tea has the highest concentration of L-theanine, an amino acid that, according to a recent study, stimulates alpha brain waves to boost alertness while producing a calming effect. And a cup of white tea contains less caffeine than other teas. It is also more hydrating.

Take a break from your TV, computer and other technology. You get an adrenaline zap every time you phone rings or an email comes in. Pick up a good book to read or lie down for a nap. Meditate and rest quietly.

Focus on anything that you like, beautiful flowers, the ocean, or mountains. You need some time to tune in and reconnect with yourself. For the best health of all your family try to see that they also have quiet times to meditate and retune.

Do your workouts to maximize your oxygen intake. Lift weights, roll on the exercise ball, climb stairs, and jog. Breathe hard more often. Take a breathing break to breath out all the old air in your lungs and take in fresh oxygen. Inhale from your belly; then breath out slowly, imagine you are pulling your navel toward your spine.

Try self acupressure. Rub the muscle between your thumb and your fore finger from three to five minutes. You should feel a little ache then an overall since of relief and a feeling of peace.

We all get those winter blahs but there are things we can do to feel better. Besides the things I have named above, I love going to the park when the sun is shining and just soaking it in. Also when I go out in the car and return home, I sometimes just sit in the car with a good book that I always keep in the dash. It feels so good sitting in the warm car with the sun shining in to warm me.

Another thing I enjoy is sneaking out on the deck with a quilt and burrowing down warm and cozy in my swing. I know, I know, sometimes we don’t have time to waste. Clothes are waiting to be washed, supper is waiting to be cooked, and dogs are waiting to be walked. But we need to get in the habit of taking those few minutes to rejuvenate ourselves so we can feel like normal human beings and not slaves to routine which can swallow us alive if we let it. Okay enough preaching. I will let all you busy people get on with your live. I wish you many sunny days with good books to read, interesting trails to walk, and warm quilts to snuggle in.

Developing Your Organization During Recession…

LET HR TAKE THE LEAD: BUILD YOUR HUMAN RESOURCES NOW

This is turbulent times.

Watching one’s colleagues shown the door all on a sudden on Friday evenings after their access cards are taken away could be unsettling to both those leaving and to those left behind.

Such decisions to lay off are decisions, generally, moved first by the Finance Departments.

As a responsible response to recession, with or without lay offs, those in HR need to proactively work for increasing the productivity of their staff at this time.

When organizations finally pull themselves out of recession, those that have more capable staff will most certainly be the first to make it.

Hence, even if you may not see the need to increase productive capabilities of your staff during a slow down of sales, going ahead and building up capability helps to pull the organization out of recession. And the time to do that is NOW.

BUILDING HUMAN RESOURCES: WHAT STRUCTURE TO RAISE

For long, we have used the metaphor of a pyramid to describe the structure of organizations. Today’s business environment does not support pyramidal structures any more.

Management gurus like Peter Senge suggest a much flatter design for 21st Century Organization: Flat like a “level playing field”.

While playing a match, each player takes up responsibility to make his/her decision, instantly, without waiting for orders. Similarly, to succeed in the market, those workers/staff ‘in the field’ need to be trained to act with, what the Fifth Discipline calls, a sense of “Personal Mastery”.

Training those in the lowest rung of hierarchy to behave in a masterly fashion is an entirely new way to train, and it is much different from the traditional way of training them to obey orders.

Even if you had them trained earlier in personality development, you may do well to go beyond that, leading them towards Personal Mastery.

Personal Mastery implies the modern employee will have his/her personal development goals in place and pursue it seriously, and the Company will ‘marry’ the vision of the employee with that of the Company!

Taking this clue, HR could see how this recession could be utilized as an opportunity to educate and transformation your field players. An enlightened set of players with a purpose in life will do better than ignorant ones in pulling the company out of recession.

STRENGTHENING THE ROOTS

We use stories and parables to make sense of this complex world. If we can think of recession as a dry spell that a farmer faces, we may gain some insight into what needs to be done, by observing the farmer.

When water becomes scarce, he applies it in drops, to the roots. He knows that if he takes care to preserve the moisture at the roots, the tree will look after itself.

Thus, if recession forces your production plants to be down for a few days a week or month, the HR department could use the time to nurture their workers.

INNOVATIVE CARE OF EMPLOYEES, DURING RECESSION

Perhaps the best way to let your employees understand that you do care for them is to help them to face the recession:

Train them to:

1. Generate income at home,
2. Cut down on expenses,
3. Prepare for better opportunities
4. Spend time usefully.

1. Generate income at home:

You may want to train your employees to beat depression by engaging themselves in hobbies that have huge income generating potentials! Teach them to upgrade their hobbies like rearing ornamental fish, cooking and eating, rearing plants/cacti or pets to profitable businesses… Check the links below:

• Nabard Bank has a wonderful site on scaling up your ornamental fish breeding hobby into an entrepreneurial venture… the staff who have an empty terrace or an open backyard at home might go for it: NABARD’s Model Bankable Projects

• Here is a BBC report on how a women’s ability to make humble samosa would make her a Samosa Queen: BBC NEWS | Business | UK curry queen has empire in her sights

2. Cut down on expenses:

A short course on health care – particularly on how to avoid infections, home remedies, physical exercise etc – could help employees to achieve better health, improve their immune system, and reduce medical bills, and sick leaves.

What better way could be there to inform your constituencies that the company cares, than your care for their and their families’ health?

3. Prepare for better opportunities:

As much as continuous learning is essential for the survival of Companies in a fast changing world, the staff too need to keep learning. After all, Learning Organizations can’t be created by people who don’t learn?

Open the doors of the world to your employees: Just spend a day surfing the Internet with your employees to inform them on what is meant by information revolution: show them the open coursewares of over 1800 courses taught in MIT, the Yahoo/Google/Microsoft Maps of the world; the world of emails; YouTube on Safety at Work Place…Online reservation of tickets, Online operation of personal bank accounts…communicating via chats/audio/video…

Teach them how to learn languages… new skills…like data entry…car driving…

As you enlarge the minds of your employees, their world becomes broader, and that helps them to appreciate the meaning of international competition, and the need to increase quality of products/services.

4. Spend Time Usefully:

People are under stress, fearing or suffering loss of employment. Even those you fire could be given the assistance to cope with life after the pink slip. When you see how people choose tragic ends to their lives, you will certainly appreciate the need to prepare people to be flexible in life.

Not knowing how to spend the busy days otherwise spent in the factory or office could spell disaster. Idling, while feeling depressed, drags one into habits that will harm self, family and the organization.

An introduction to yoga or entrepreneurship could help redesign life during crisis, and help one to transform it into a great opportunity to create something new.

TRANSFORM CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY

In one sense, all business arise as solution to some problems faced by people: of hunger (hotels), disease (hospitals), travels (airways, railways, bus, taxi,…) etc.

What is needed is an ability to imagine or dream, an enterprising mindset, and the will to succeed.

And, to impart that wisdom to your people, this may be the opportune time.

A wise farmer once told me, if you planted a tree during dry summer days, you will take care of it, knowing it will die without your help. By the time you get tired of watering, the rainy season will set in. But, if you plant during rainy season, you may have forgotten the tree by the time summer sets in.

If this is summer, then, it is HR Department’s time to take care of the company’s roots.

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