Behind every successful person is a successful routine, full of regular positive daily habits, which build together to form a positive, healthy and balanced lifestyle.

If you can employ a successful routine with some healthy habits within your workplace, everything will change for the better, both at work and at home.

Yes, it is easy to say how easy it would be in the ideal world. However, isn't it this ideal world which we all aspire. With each of us having our own concept on how this would play out?

So then, read on and see these ideas as a goal to reach.  

It all starts with controlling your circadian rhythms.

Circadian rhythms are influenced by both natural and environmental factors. For example, when daylight (an environmental factor) shines through the window in the morning, it influences your body to wake up. When you travel to a new time zone, your biological clock (a natural factor) makes it hard for you to adjust to the new time.  

Your lifestyle and routine (or lack thereof) can affect the environmental factors that influence your circadian rhythms. In turn, these rhythms impact many areas of your health, including hormones, sleep cycles, eating habits and digestion. In fact, sticking to a consistent, healthy daily routine can positively impact your health. 

Feeling inspired to help your employees adopt great daily routines and become champions in their own right? Focus on these areas to get started. 

Help Your People Create Healthy Daily Routines

A Good Night’s Sleep

Sticking to a nightly routine – i.e. waking and sleeping at the same time every day, even on weekends — can help to establish a regular sleep pattern, making it easier to get to sleep and stay asleep. Getting those Zs can greatly improve overall health, too.  Irregular sleep schedules increase the likelihood of higher cholesterol and body mass index, as well as symptoms of bipolar disorder and major depression.  

Give your people tips that help them develop regular routines before bed that relax both mind and body. Offer them simple tools to track nightly habits like darkening their bedroom, removing electronic devices and going to bed at the same time each night, so they can take the first step toward becoming more rested employees. 

Healthy Habit Tracking

When people get rewarded for tracking small, healthy things that they do each day, they are more likely to do them. And when they do them every day, they become healthy habits for life.  

Whether it’s coupled with social support or built-in incentives, provide your employees with a platform that helps them track activities likes taking the stairs or eating a healthy breakfast to help them turn those healthy habits into healthy routines. 

Regular Breaks Throughout the Day

Taking breaks throughout the day can relieve stress, boost productivity and clear the mind. Encourage your employees to add them to their calendars and treat them like an important task or meeting so they stick to them.  

Healthy Eating Habits

Research from Salk Institute professor and circadian rhythms expert, Dr. Satchidananda Panda, shows eating within an eight- to 10-hour window aligned with your circadian rhythms (between morning and early evening) can improve your metabolic health.  

Make sure that employees feel comfortable using their full lunch breaks, minimise lunch meetings whenever possible and provide people with a place to eat away from their desks or work stations. 

Scheduled Physical Activity

Regular physical activity has an enormous amount of benefits. And, when you schedule physical activity, it becomes a priority and part of a healthy daily routine. Sponsoring  company-wide activity challenges enabling peer to peer activity competitions, turning Fridays into walking meeting days or giving people the flexibility to use the onsite gym on their lunch breaks are all great ways to foster a fit and active workforce. 

While an individual’s routine is entirely up to them, give employees the resources, structure and support they need to build healthy habits and you’ll see a lasting positive impact on your business. 

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