a year ago at this time i was learning about ux design and also working on multiple projects
at once i noticed that my hands and my arms started to feel painful have you ever tried
doing a full split now imagine feeling that pain in your hands and arms each time you type
click and scroll but you still cannot stop typing clicking and scrolling now i know that this is
called repetitive stress syndrome it also has a brother that's called carpal tunnel syndrome
and a lot of cousins like back pain shoulder pain neck pain headache you name it these are health
problems that will arrive if you use digital products all the time but if you want to work
in the tech industry and win in the long run it's absolutely necessary to take care of your health
today i would like to share a few healthy habits to keep and definitely something that i wish i
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and up to 40 up the first thing that i want to share today is pomodoro technique now this
is more like a productivity technique but it really helps me with my health as well
i especially recommend this website and what it does is that it times 25 minutes for work and then
gives you a five minutes break so 25 minutes work five minutes break 25 minutes work five minutes
break usually when i'm doing work i started with good posture and then after 10 minutes become like
this so it's definitely not healthy for my body and having that five minutes break just reminds me
to get up and stretch drink my water clean up my room do some organization and vacuum the floor so
it's kind of like a technique and helped me to be more productive and healthy at the same time super
recommended the second thing that i recommend you guys to do is to turn this mobile phone into
black and white the way to do that in most mobile devices is go to settings and search color filters
and turn it to black and white ta-da the things that we often look at our phone when we are
not even aware of it and it is because our brain will release dopamine each time we scroll each
time we look at colorful stuff so turning your phone into black and white will reduce
the dopamine that will be released each time you look at it to make you feel less addictive to it
but maybe turning back to color mode when you are doing facetime
yeah another thing that i started to do is to stretch every morning i personally have
practiced dancing before so i knew that the best time to stretch is during the morning because
that is when our body is the most stiff so if you want to get flexible stretch in the morning and
you'll get the most progress however i will only stretch in the morning if i get up early so that
leads to my next point which is to put our phone into the bathroom before sleeping two reasons
first reason is that it helps us to sleep second reason is that it helps us to get up
i myself i'm a snoozer if i can reach my phone i will snooze it so many times until i have to
go to that meeting but if i put my phone into the bathroom i would have to get up and walk into the
bathroom to turn it off and since i'm ready at the bathroom i might as well just brush my teeth
and speaking of bathroom another thing we can do is to take bath with epsom salt so the next
time if you run out of body wash maybe you can go to a store and check out a product that has
epsom salt saying on it and right now because of this situation i also have to go to physical
therapy every week you don't have to but i highly recommend you to try it out it's kind of like a
massage session where you have the relaxation of a massage but i also have the hardcore treatment
stuff like going to a hospital so it's a nice mix and to be honest everyone has something to fix
our neck is too stiff our back our hand two legs are in different lengths these are things that
physical therapy can help you to fix now that i've talked a lot about habits to keep for a
more healthy body i also want to talk about healthy habits to keep for a healthier mind
and one thing that i do is to write journal every day this is interesting because a lot
of time i feel like i have a lot of mess in my mind a lot of struggle a lot of concerns
but as soon as i start to put that on the paper they just disappear my daily journal
can start with oh my god this is a horrible day and after i write a while it ends with
oh it's not that bad at all i don't know what's the magic behind writing but it just kind of makes
your mind clear and put a lot of mess you thought you would have onto paper to make them disappear
i have another personal habit which is i would video chat with my grandmother every single day
i might skip all the other habits but i would definitely keep this one simply because my
grandmother raised me when i was little now she's back in china and i'm living in the states
so in order for us to keep in touch i taught her how to use an ipad and we do a video chat every
single day i would stream myself doing a group of exercises or organizing my room talk about random
stuff or just show her how i'm making the dinner for tonight and ask her whether i'm doing it right
because she's definitely a better shop than me but having that person to talk to every day
just really strengthen the healthy connection between people and i know that it's not like
throughout our life we'll always have that person to talk to because there's always time where we
just feel alone and if you feel like you are in that situation right now i want to remind you that
this is temporary and that takes us to the final point which is to learn something new every day
the tech industry almost has something new every single day so in order for us to keep
up with the speed where things are evolving it's important for us to learn something every day
but i don't suggest you to learn with the mindset where you feel like i don't want to miss out or i
don't want to be left behind this kind of mindset inside i think it's much more healthier if we use
the curious version of ourselves like oh this is super cool i can learn this that kind of mindset
to approach this new type of stuff and for me i sometimes do structured online courses from
coursera other time i would just go on youtube and just listen to ted talk go to channels similar to
my channel educational channel to learn more stuff or just read a book or listen to an audiobook
the great thing about this time is that there's endless ways to learn new stuff and almost
anything you want to learn it's close to free if you don't go to another university program
and um i grew up in an environment where i felt like i could either be studying or working so
whenever i'm not studying or working i would feel very guilty but gradually i realized that
the only work that we really have to do in this entire life is to keep this body healthy
any other thing comes after health in self-care is not a luxury self-care is a responsibility
i know that this is a time where a lot of you guys are trying to switch career trying to make
a big change in your life i just want to leave a reminder that while you are working hard to become
the best version of yourself please don't forget to take care of the body that help you to make
it this far thank you everyone i'm aliena if you like my video don't forget to subscribe comment
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