The Active Workday Advantage: Unlock your most energised, engaged and happy self at work
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley May 27, 2024
Author Lizzie Williamson
Distributor: Major Street Publishers
ISBN: 9781922611932.
Publisher: Major Street Publishers
Release Date: 2024
Website: https://majorstreet.com.au
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‘We are sitting our way to death’ is a quote from Dr James A Levine, a man who considers the modern sedentary lifestyle to be far more toxic and dangerous that smoking. Interestingly, statistics prove this to be true.
But, as we are all creatures of habit, getting out of our rut is far from easy and staying out of it is very challenging. The solution is simple, perhaps that is why it is often so overlooked. All it takes, whether you are at your desk, a busy Mum juggling a myriad of tasks or a habitual couch sitter, is simply moving your body. Yep, that’s all, moving your body.
Lizzie Williamson had spent her life as a dancer, traveling the world, enjoying her very physical occupation as a professional dancer. Two young children saw her in despair, exhausted and emotionally deplete. Exercise was simply too hard, to challenging and to time consuming.
She was diagnosed with post-natal depression; the remedy, to get back to exercising. Facing the sad truth of matters, she eventually used the edge of the kitchen bench as a barre, and did two minutes of movement. Not enough she thought, but her heart said otherwise.
This became her daily task or challenge. Over the weeks and months ahead she began to get better, to rebuild her life, A decade later, her global enterprise based on two minute moves, has helped many thousands of people slowly find their way back to good physical, mental and emotional health, not just in the workplace, but also in their personal lives.
The Active Workday Advantage is a step by step guide to finding your way out of your sedentary lifestyle to one of health and clarity by committing to a simple, and yet effective change in activity, anyone can do at any time.
She sets out over three sections: Reimagine: the active workday Idea, followed by Redesign: The active workday toolkit and Revolutionise: the active workday framework a call to action, which will benefit not only you but your workplace by having an alert, proactive and healthy team.
The Active Workday Advantage can take a little implementing, especially in the workplace, where no one wants to be the stand out person, but with a massive change of mindset, the overall benefits of a happier, healthier workplace far exceeds any slight hesitation and initial embarrassment.