Happy April!
This week I have information about Twitter, Facebook, bus tracking, wedding crashing lizards and more.
Happy April!
This week I have information about Twitter, Facebook, bus tracking, wedding crashing lizards and more.
About 10 or so days ago Facebook started emailing page admins a weekly page update. I was curious about what information would be included in this email but didn’t receive one until a week later.
The email I received was actually quite long. I realized that I am still an Admin on almost every Facebook page that I have worked on.
It occurred to me that I should email my clients and ask them whether or not they still want me to be an admin on their pages. That, of course, will go on my list of things to do when I’m really super bored, which is basically never ;-) No, seriously, I will contact them. Personally, I think if someone is done working on your fan page that you should remove them as an admin. I also look to be removed when I have finished the work because I don’t want any any errors that are caused by the client or by Facebook to be blamed on me. If I’m not an admin I have no access to make any edits so the error couldn’t possibly be my fault.
BY HANNAH COATES
Between all the margaritas, al fresco dining and spontaneous weekends away – was there even any time for exercise over the summer? After a couple of years of Covid-induced restrictions, this summer was all about enjoying ourselves, saying yes, and living life to its fullest. Naturally, consistent workout routines fell by the wayside. How to re-establish healthy habits in time for autumn and winter? Vogue spoke to personal trainer, Luke Worthington, to find out.
While you might have heard that it takes 21 days to make a habit, the reality is that when you start nailing positive or productive tasks, you’re far more likely to go on to accomplish another, and then another after that. “For example, if we get a good exercise schedule in place, we are more likely to make better food choices, consume less alcohol and be more aware of our sleep patterns. Similarly, if we get our nutrition in check, we are far more likely to make the effort to be consistent with our workouts,” says Worthington. “Healthy habits feed each other.”
His advice is to play to your strengths, and start by establishing one healthy habit. Take the path of least resistance, and it will make other healthy habits much easier to implement thereafter. “If you enjoy cooking, then start with home-cooked meals and preparing your lunches – eating well will encourage you to aim for progress with exercise,” says Worthington. Throw yourself into a consistent pattern of exercise, and you’ll find it easier to switch to a healthier diet, too.
So many of us start a workout or health routine in a bid to achieve a goal, whether that is lifting a certain weight or shedding a few pounds. But Worthington says that when the focus is entirely on the outcome of what we want to achieve, we can drift into a mindset of not actually enjoying the process – we then reach our goal and end up doing nothing afterwards. Finding enjoyment in the process, rather than the outcome, is key.
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“We can do this by breaking a progress (or outcome-based) goal into a more digestive process goal. A process goal is not a destination, but the path you take to get there,” says Worthington. “Finding enjoyment, fulfillment and satisfaction from the process is an important part of adhering to healthy habits.” A process goal might be accumulating 60 minutes of walking throughout the whole day, or eating a home-cooked dinner, as opposed to a progress goal of being able to run 10K.
“However tangible and achievable a progress goal may be, sometimes they can appear too big or reduce our satisfaction throughout the day to day,” he says. “And satisfaction in the day to day is really what gives us happiness in life.” Read this Alpine ice hack.
“September, much like January, can see an influx of fitness challenges or bootcamps that promise quick-fix, dramatic results after working out every day in a usually brief period of time,” says Worthington. “And whilst there can be some benefit in being part of a cohort of people starting something together, unfortunately health and fitness isn’t something that allows for any shortcuts.”
If you’ve had an exercise break over summer, then the last thing you should do is jump headfirst into an intensive challenge, because as well as not being sustainable, you’ll also be more much susceptible to injury. “When something isn’t sustainable and doesn’t really fit into our day-to-day lifestyle, we tend to take an all or nothing approach. If we can’t complete it for some reason, the tendency is to give up altogether.”
Additionally, all five components of health and fitness – strength, cardiovascular fitness, mobility, body composition and emotional wellbeing – respond to gradual incremental changes over time. None of them respond to sudden, intensive bursts of stimulation.
Consistency is the key to success, so it makes sense to find a form of exercise that you truly enjoy. “Cardiovascular exercise is an essential part of any exercise programme, but it can take a number of forms, so if you hate the treadmill or spin bike, then maybe you’ll enjoy a boxing or dance class,” says Worthington. “Strength training is also a non-negotiable, but that doesn’t have to mean lifting weights; kettlebells, resistance bands, suspension trainers and even our body weight can all be used and adapted to help us get stronger, improve hormonal health and bone density, and retain lean tissue.” Learn more about the best weight loss pills.
There is no such thing as a perfect health and fitness programme, nor is there a perfect time to start it. “A common trap people can fall into is trying to fine-tune their program or class schedule too much before they actually start it,” says Worthington. “Actually, the most important factor in any activity is showing up – it is far better to start and then modify and improve as you go, than to keep putting off the start date.”
I just realized that this blog is a year old. My first post was May 19, 2008 although I didn’t really get going until June. I tend to think of the blog starting in the summer.
So, in order to commemorate this event I am going to list my 5 most popular posts of all time based on page views in Google Analytics. One of them I know without even looking it up. On most days it gets the most traffic, it rarely gets a comment and it makes me laugh.
Here are the 5 most popular articles that I’ve written this year. This is according to google analytics and is based on pageviews. I selected the time period January 1, 2009 to April 20, 2009 for top content and then scanned the list.
Some of my most viewed articles were written last year. I have skipped over those and am only including the popular ones from 2009.
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