Maximize Your Health by Living Your Dream Career

Very few of us are completely free from health worries as we move through our lives. We face the day-to-day crises of sore throats, broken bones, and exhaustion. But we are forced to work despite all these things, and sometimes more difficult health issues.

Because, let’s face it, clients and bosses can’t afford to stop projects or table expectations because we aren’t feeling 100% on a given day.

As Virtual Professionals, we have great tools available – tools for a healthy life that a more traditional role simply does not provide.

Tool #1: Joy. First of all, we do what we love. Engaging in joyful activities stimulates the area of the brain responsible for emotion, motivation, and memory. It also leads to stress reduction and promotes cell regeneration. In short, doing what you love will improve your health.

Tool #2: Flexibility. Although once a project is accepted and moving, we are faced with timelines and deadlines, we can have discernment and actually delay accepting or even turn down a job that might overwhelm us and affect our health.

Tool #3: Team. This is really Tool #2 ½. Because if we DO become overwhelmed by a project or a client, we have a network of other VP’s who support us. Further, our TEAM at The Virtual Nation provides an all-important sounding board for problems and questions.

Tool #4: Time. Time is the most important commodity that we have – it cannot be saved and banked for later use. It can only be spent on better choices. As Virtual Professionals, we can use our time with great passion and purpose. We can multitask and include our health in ways that just would not work in a normal work environment. We can eat small, healthy meals all day long if we choose. We can use our time by walking on our treadmill while we read over project notes, or dictate while jogging around the block. We can listen to podcasts on marketing as we cook dinner, and we can release stress by singing at the top of our lungs in the safety of our own office (i.e., the living room or kitchen table for some of us!).

There is no end to the positive effect of doing what you love for a living. The phrase, “My job is killing me,” was not a lie for us.

We are alive now. We are the designers of our own healthy, fulfilling lives.

Respond here to share your ideas, or write me at michelle@thevirtualnation.com and share your thoughts on living your dream and how you maximize healthy choices while working from home.

Gratefully yours,

Michelle Ulrich, Chief Villager