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Improve Your
Productivity by Improving your Work Habits!
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Developing good work
habits can set you up for years of productive, pain free
work and recreation using computers. Following proper
ergonomic principles will ensure your productivity is
maximized without sacrificing your health. Here are
some quick tips that involve your work habits:
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Vary tasks and break up repetitive
routine tasks: Learn to pace yourself with any
activity you are doing that involves physical movement
or static body postures. Excessive, frequent, repetitive
movement is not good for any joint. Likewise, keeping
your joints in the same position, especially in a weight
bearing position (as in sitting or standing), places
strain on the joint and ligaments. A combination of
movement and static posture at various times is best for
your body.
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Take frequent breaks - stand up,
stretch, walk around: If you need to be working at
the computer for long periods of time, make time to get
up and move around. Stand up, stretch and breathe in
deeply. Movement allows for muscles and tissues to
reposition, and for blood to flow freely. Moving around
will also help with reducing fatigue and improve your
energy and endurance.
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Shift your posture frequently:
Changes in seated posture for working can be extremely
beneficial. While working, move from resting on the
backrest of the chair into a more upright and forward
flexed position (closer to the work surface), place your
feet at different places on the floor, move your seated
position on the bottom of the chair etc. Small changes
in position while you are sitting working can alter
weight bearing and reduce the pressure or strain on
specific joints and muscle groups.
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Joint movement exercises: Active
large movements of your joints has significant benefits
to increasing blood flow, reducing pressure areas and
reducing muscle and joint strain. If possible, during
rest and movement periods away from the keyboard, do
some large range movement of your arms, hands, neck and
legs.
Our
Custom Typing Training web site includes a complete
section on ergonomics. To go directly to our
ergonomics section, click on the link below:
http://www.customtyping.com/tutorials/erg/ergonomics.htm
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Tip of the
Week: Enlarging your Text Size when it's too Small to Read
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Do you sometimes
encounter a program or web site which uses very small fonts
that are hard to read? There are a number of things you can
do to fix this problem. For web sites, go to Internet
Explorer's "View" menu, click on "Text Size", and choose a
size that is larger than the current size. Note that this
will not work on all web sites, because web authors do have
the ability to lock the font size that is shown on their web
pages.
Many programs provide a zoom or magnification setting to
allow you to adjust the size of the text that is displayed
in the current document. Look for this setting somewhere
under the "View" menu, or on one of the toolbars that
appears just below the menus.
The Windows Display control panel provides some other
options as well. To access this control panel, right click
on an unused area of your desktop and choose "Properties",
or look for it in the Control Panels area under the Start
menu. Once you've opened the Display control panel, click on
the "Appearance" tab and increase the font size to large or
extra large.
If these tricks are not sufficient, you can also try
reducing your screen resolution. This will reduce your
overall desktop area, giving you less room to work and
allowing less to fit on the screen, but may be better than
suffering from eye strain. From the Display control panel,
click on the "Settings" tab and move the slider under
"Screen Resolution" to the left. We don't recommend setting
the resolution lower than 800x600, because many web sites
are not designed to accommodate resolutions lower than this.
You may need to play around to find the right balance of
screen resolution and readability.
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