Today we discussed why quitting your job might not be realistic AND why its time to get healthy

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(Reuters) - It makes no difference if you stretch or not before a run, because stretching won't affect your risk of injury, according to a study. According to the study, presented this week at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, injury rates were 16 percent in both groups. The most significant risk factors for injury were a history of chronic injury or recent injury in the past four months, and a higher body mass index. According to the study, presented this week at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, injury rates were 16 percent in both groups. The most significant risk factors for injury were a history of chronic injury or recent injury in the past four months, and a higher body mass index.

Today’s Inspiration of the day
8 Ways Doing Less Can Transform Your Work & Life

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint Exupery


Doing less is not about being lazy (though being lazy is a good start) — it’s about focusing on quality rather than quantity. It’s about getting off the hamster wheel of productivity, so that you can create something great rather than just being busy.


Let’s take a few examples:

• A furniture maker can mass-produce a ton of cheap furniture that will fall apart within a year. Another craftsman might produce way fewer pieces of furniture, but make them beautifully and solidly, so that they’ll last for generations. If he makes them well enough, they might even be sought out and remembered for their great design.

• A programmer can write tens of thousands of lines of code, and produce a lot of software that works. A less productive coder can write a tenth of the lines, perhaps even editing down what she writes so that there’s less code, but they’re better written. This small program might be the most useful thing on many people’s computers, flawless code that just works.
• A writer can churn out lots of words (hundreds of thousands, if not millions), but have his work read by relatively few. Another writer can write a small but powerful blog post or ebook, and have the post be spread by thousands of people.

Here are some ways this philosophy can change your life and work: http://zenhabits.net/8-ways-doing-less-can-transform-your-work-life/

ALSO FEATURED:
An interview with Health24’s Susan Erasmus on the “10 Bad reasons to quit your job”. For more read the article: http://www.health24.com/medical/Focus_centres/777-2268-3852-4007,20820.asp

Lastly I spoke to Hilary Rhode of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University about the Healthy Lifestyles Awareness Day. The interview discussed how communities can create and sustain healthy lifestyles despite budget constraints and looked at government’s plans to overhaul the health system and the increasing importance of leading a healthy lifestyle to keep illness at bay.