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Why Your Wellbeing Shouldn’t Be Compromised at Work

Having a job or career is something that most people aspire to. This is typically for the purpose of living out a dream or earning enough to live the life you’ve always dreamt about. Depending on the nature of your job, work can be quite demanding and take a lot of your time and energy. However, in the midst of this, you’ve got to find the time to take care of yourself and meet your personal needs. If not, you could find that your wellbeing deteriorates, and you aren’t getting much satisfaction out of life. Here are a few reasons why your wellbeing shouldn’t be compromised at work.

For Your Physical Health

Everyone has different roles and responsibilities when it comes to work. For some, they have to manage projects, while others may be more engaged in physical labor. Whatever the case, if you compromise your wellbeing by pushing yourself further than you should, it could negatively impact your health. This could include increased levels of stress, high blood pressure, and even accidents as a result of exhaustion. If the latter happens, you should contact the-compensation-experts.co.uk and see if you’re entitled to compensation.

To Protect Your Mental Wellbeing

Your mental health is just as important as your physical health. It’s imperative that you make sure you don’t compromise this at work as it could have long-term effects on your health. To protect your mental wellbeing at work, start by identifying stress triggers. These are usually things that cause poor mental health or high levels of stress. In addition to this, manage your hours and learn when to switch off from work and relax. You should also find that talking about any challenges you’re having makes you feel a lot better. Ultimately, to protect your wellbeing, it’s best you don’t take on more than you can handle.

So You Can Maintain Relationships

When you compromise your wellbeing at work, it can result in you losing out on important relationships. Seeing as such connections help give your life balance, this is something you should desperately try to avoid. As mentioned above, learning to master work-life balance and knowing when to shut off from work can go a long way. Just as you schedule in time for work, make time to touch base with your loved ones too.

Could Lead to Unhappiness

 

If your wellbeing is compromised at work, it could lead to unhappiness, which you don’t want. This could be a result of feeling perpetually overwhelmed and burdened as well as losing sight of the things that make you feel fulfilled. For some people, this triggers feelings of anxiety and depression, as well as a range of other conditions. In light of this, remember that your wellbeing should always come first.

Your wellbeing is extremely important to your overall health, so shouldn’t be compromised. Try and make sure you find a way to balance work and your health and remember to not overexert yourself. Doing so should improve your chances of work satisfaction and fulfillment in life as well.

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Tips For Managing The Birth Of Your Child

If you or your partner is pregnant, then you will have been preparing yourself for birth and bringing your child home for a long time. While it is true that nothing can truly prepare you for what is about to come, there are a few tips that you can follow which should make this experience as smooth as possible. This is the start of an exciting new chapter in your life, and you will want it to start without any issues or problems. This will require careful preparation and planning. Read on for a few tips for managing the birth of your child.

Have A Game Plan

First, you need to know exactly what you are doing when the moment arrives. This will include having a pre-packed bag filled with everything that you need and a plan for how you will get to the hospital. If you are driving your pregnant partner to the hospital, it is a smart idea to have a few practices runs beforehand so that you can establish the best route to take, so that you know how long it will take and so that there is no chance of you getting lost on the way. Having a backup plan is also a good idea as labor could start when you least expect it.

Recognize Early Signs Of Labor

It is not always obvious when you are about to go into labor (unlike the films will tell you), and there is no certain set of events. There are a few early signs to be aware of, however, including the ability to breathe more easily, the need to urinate more, pink discharge, water breaking and contractions starting.

Support Network

You will also need a support network to lean on during this exciting yet stressful time. This could involve having people at the hospital with you for emotional support or having friends/family that can look after everything outside of the hospital. This could include having somebody looking after your other child(ren), having somebody to feed the pets or informing everyone else that the time has arrived. This will allow you to focus on the birth and ensure that everything is as it should be when you return home with your bundle of joy.

Communicate

Having a birth plan is a good idea but do not worry if this does not unfold exactly as you wish. You need to carefully listen to what the doctors and midwives say but remember that you do have a say in how to approach the delivery and you should not shy away from speaking up. If there are any pregnancy and/or birth injuries because of the negligence of the staff, you could make a claim and receive compensation with help from specialists like the-medical-negligence-experts.co.uk.

Nine months of pregnancy leads up to this moment which can make it a terrifying prospect and your life will never be the same after. Although scary and stressful, you can reduce stress and make the experience as smooth as possible with the above advice so that you can then start this exciting new chapter in your life.

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3 Aspects of Your Home Which Could be Letting it Down

Are you happy with your home? Or are there aspects you wish you could change to make it better? The most essential quality of any home is that it should be where you feel safe and comfortable, so if you choose to decorate it in rainbow colours or fill it with books, that’s entirely your prerogative – although you’ll probably find it will need changing should you decide to sell! If you’re cold, damp, miserable, or feel down about how your home looks, that’s when you need to take action to change whatever’s letting your home down.

1. Heating and hot water

Being warm in the winter is an important consideration, and after experiencing the coldest winter for decades last year, you wouldn’t want to risk being vulnerable to another Beast from the East. If you want to improve the warmth of your home, the first stage is insulation. Older homes, in particular, may not have insulated attics or walls, and much of the heat you generate will be passing out of the house to be wasted. Loft insulation is essential, but you should take professional advice on whether your home is suitable for cavity wall insulation as some homes can become damp after installation, so they’re better off with other solutions. Boilers that are getting on in years, especially if they aren’t condensing types, will be costing you money because they use more energy than modern condensing units. Likewise, older radiators, particularly those with no thermostatic control, are likely to be considerably less efficient than modern systems.

2. Doors and windows

If you don’t have double glazing units in your home, your windows are likely to be leaking heat and costing you money. Even period homes can be fitted with new wooden sash windows like those available from timberwindows-direct.co.uk. These are particularly good if you can’t or don’t want to have UPVC double glazing in your home. Modern windows have far more security features than older ones, meaning burglars are less likely to break in as they’ll have a much harder job. Secure doors with up-to-date multipoint locking mechanisms are also safer, and you can now get keyless entry systems if that suits you better.

3. Flooring

 

Floors can make or break a room, as a dirty carpet or muddy tiles will attract far more attention than dusty shelves or piles of magazines. If your carpet is in good condition, a deep clean should freshen it up, but if it’s too stained or starting to wear thin and fray, you should get rid of it. Wooden floors and tiling are far easier to keep clean and hygienic than carpet, but if you prefer the extra warmth and comfort carpeting provides, choose new ones in colours that add style to the room, and buy the types with inbuilt stain-resistant coatings.

The best part of the day is coming home to a warm, safe, comfortable home where you can relax and unwind for a few hours after a long day, so make sure your home is as warm and comfortable as it can be for the winter ahead.

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5 Ways Subaru Keeps You Safe

It’s not something we like to dwell on, but in reality, you’re taking a risk every time you step out of the house and into your vehicle. Yes, driving is relatively safe, but accidents do occur every day in every city. So, why aren’t we doing everything we can to ensure we’re protected?

While this might not be a topic you mull on often, it is a prime point of conversation at Subaru. This isn’t mentioned to worry you. In fact, we want you to set off in your Subaru knowing we thought of and implemented every innovation possible to keep you and your family safe during each trip on the road, no matter how long.

Aside from clicking those seatbelts and driving with care, we want you to leave safety to us. That’s why we’ve added in standard safety Subaru features you probably wouldn’t even think to ask for.

Here are five ways Subaru keeps you safe each time you’re on the road in one of our vehicles.

  1. EyeSight

EyeSight Driver Assist Technology is a set of Subaru features developed by our top engineers. They know that while style and comfort are on the top of your car must-haves, safety shouldn’t go by the wayside. So, they’ve added this suite of safety features into every Subaru vehicle on the road and it has been found to reduce rear-end crashes with injuries up to 85%.

Additionally, all 2018 Subaru models that are equipped with EyeSight Driver Assist Technology earned the top possible ratings for front crash prevention by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

This system works due to a set of color cameras that intelligently and unobtrusively scan the road for possible, unanticipated dangers. Then, it implements the needed technology and reacts when you can’t or wouldn’t even know to.

It basically adds another driver for extra safety and peace of mind each time you get on the road.

  1. EyeSight Adaptive Cruise Control

If you’re on a long stretch of highway, cruise control is a nice feature to use as it keeps your vehicle driving at the same speed without your added work. All you have to do is safely steer. This technology, however, takes that to the next level.

With Adaptive Cruise Control, you select the distance you want to maintain from the vehicle ahead of you. Then, once engaged, it will do so by adjusting your speed as needed to keep you at your requested pace.

Now, you can stay with the flow of traffic without getting uncomfortably close to the vehicle in front of you. You’ll feel confident and in control when you use this feature, and stay safer than ever before.

  1. EyeSight Lane Keep Assist and Sway Warning

There are countless dark and curvy two-lane roads in the Pacific Northwest so it’s easy—especially when raining or snowing—to accidentally slip into the oncoming lane. And, while you may be the only one on the road, that could change at any moment.

This is when Lane Keep Assist and Sway Warning come into play. Whether you find yourself trying to stay awake on the way home from an unexpected overnight shift or the elements are impeding your judgment, we know these moments occur and have implemented Subaru features to prevent and correct the occurrence.

Your Subaru, just like you, will watch for lane markings to determine if you are drifting. If it picks this up, the system will alert you with warning beeps. And, if you do not act quickly enough, it will even help you out by steering you back into the appropriate lane.

While this may be something you can do without, Subaru will be there for you the one time it matters most.

  1. Pre-Collision Braking

Each safety element in the new Subaru vehicles exist to anticipate danger before it arrives and pre-collision braking is just another component of this package. While we would like to think that we’re all good enough drivers and don’t need backup assistance, everyone could use an extra set of eyes sometimes.

When Pre-Collision Braking is engaged, it will alert you it’s about to help out and then apply the brakes. While similar systems can help slow you down too, Pre-Collision Braking can bring you to a complete stop if needed.

Not sure EyeSight is necessary? An IIHS study found that it reduced pedestrian-related insurance claims by 35%.

  1. Pre-Collision Throttle Management

As a driver, your eyes should always be monitoring the road, but EyeSight is there to back you up. In the case of Pre-Collision Throttle Management, if your Subaru starts accelerating, but then begins to stop abruptly, it will reduce power to the engine and allow you to come to a full stop rather than accidently nudging the person’s bumper ahead of you.

This quick response by Subaru EyeSight gives you more time to recognize an issue and apply the brakes.

Pre-Collision Throttle Management may not always allow you to avoid a collision, but it will certainly reduce the impact force and damage should the situation become unavoidable.

Subaru wants you to have the most comfortable ride of your life when getting from place to place, but not at the cost of safety. At Subaru, it’s the people in the vehicles that come first.

But, if safety wasn’t reason enough to make sure your vehicle is equipped with EyeSight, how about saving money? In 2015, Americans who had a Subaru with EyeSight saved an average $200 through Liberty Mutual Insurance. Check with you car insurance provider and see if investing in EyeSight will save you money too.

Are you ready to find your perfect Subaru? Head over to your local dealership and ask for a test drive. And don’t be worried that EyeSight isn’t available on the vehicle you want. It comes standard on models ranging from the WRX to the Outback to the brand new 2019 Ascent.

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