Keeping fit through a regime of healthy eating choices and regular exercise is one way to stay alive longer, and to ensure that your years are as full as you can make them. But exercise also helps to ensure that you are performing at work to the best of your ability. Here are five ways how exercising can help you be all you can be … and perhaps beef up your salary a bit more as well.

1. Happiness - You can use money to buy things that make you feel better, but you cannot directly purchase happiness.
    
2. Health - You can get better healthcare by paying more, but you cannot literally buy health.
    
3. Smarts - You can purchase a good education, but you are either born with brains or you're not. You can always improve your chances of developing more "smarts" through self-directed experience and taking advantage of any opportunities that come to you.
    
4. Respect - It is impossible to buy someone else's respect. Self-respect also exists beyond money.
    

The dawn of the twenty-first century has shown an increase in fast-paced, technologically-impacted lifestyles that often leave people open to more stress than ever before.  There is so much more to do and places to go, more to find surfing the internet, more to watch on television and any number of hand-held devices developed in recent years.  More than ever, many people are not regularly getting the eight hours of sleep necessary for a healthy lifestyle.

About 6 weeks ago, I spent $100 on a DNA kit.

I had already embarked on my hereditary heritage with National Geographic's Genographic Project. Great to know my DNA hails from Scandinavia! My current relatives from England didn't originate in England. They might be the ancestors of Danes or Norsemen who came to the Isles of Great Britain so many centuries ago. Always did feel an affinity for Vikings....

Unless your job involves caring for kids (who tend to spread germs like wildfire), you’re probably not terribly concerned about health risks in the workplace.  But there are a lot more potential health issues at play than the possibility of catching a cold.  If there weren’t, workman’s compensation wouldn’t exist.  In truth, there are all kinds of hazards to your health that you may not even realize exist within the workplace.  So here are just a few that are common, as well as what you can do to avoid them.