Here's how you can prioritize your health as a graphic designer in your late career.

As a graphic designer, it's easy to become consumed by deadlines, client demands, and the constant push for creativity. Over time, this can take a toll on your physical and mental health. Prioritizing your well-being is crucial, especially in your late career.

Proper ergonomic design is an imperative component of health and well-being, for those particularly who work sitting down most of the time. Getting a good chair, ensuring that the monitor is at eye level or as close to that as possible, and thinking about the potential of ergonomic equipment like keyboards helps to lessen the physical impact. In this case, it may be effective to swap positions frequently and, every half an hour, get up from the laptop to stretch, which is crucial for health and productivity in the long run.

Prioritizing my health as a graphic designer in my late career is about finding balance. It's about taking breaks, staying active, and nourishing my mind and body. By listening to my needs and making self-care a daily habit, I ensure longevity in both my career and personal life.

As a seasoned graphic designer, prioritizing my health is crucial. Here's how I do it: 1. Ergonomics: Invest in an ergonomic chair and desk. 2. Breaks: Use the Pomodoro Technique to rest eyes and stretch. 3. Exercise: Include daily physical activity. 4. Healthy Eating: Opt for balanced meals and stay hydrated. 5. Mental Health: Practice mindfulness to reduce stress. 6. Work-Life Balance: Set boundaries to avoid overworking. These habits help me stay healthy and creative in my late career.

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Blue light glasses can reduce eye strain, and help keep you from being overstimulated. Small things like adjusting your monitor brightness to not be at full brightness and choosing dark mode in app as and browsers wherever possible can also reduce eye strain and prevent headaches.

To help yourself on the path towards eating better foods, try weekly meal-prepping on Sunday to prepare for your week and have healthy options already prepared and close at hand. I like to keep some “energy balls” in the fridge for a quick bite, which have peanut butter, oatmeal, honey, ground flax seed, a bit of vanilla extract, and mini chocolate chips. Mixed nuts, cranberry raisins, carrot sticks, cheese sticks, peanut butter and celery, and handheld fruits like apples and bananas are all ready to eat with little to no preparation needed!

The key to adding exercise is to establish a routine you can follow, and then stick with it. Even if it’s only one or two days a week at first, choose a goal you can hit and then stick to it. Finding activities you enjoy can increase your enjoyment of exercise. If you can find an outdoor activity you enjoy (such as biking, hiking, running, Frisbee golf, canoeing, kayaking, etc.), I find that being outside adds to enjoyment of exercise and the fresh air is good for you. Many municipal parks even have exercise trails with different stops along a path with equipment you can use for resistance training!

Schedule time for breaks and make the time to take the breaks, even if it’s just 1 minute of breathing. Mindfulness apps can be an easy way to give yourself reminders to check in with your body, stand up, stretch, walk around and, most importantly, breathe. Breathing exercises are a great way to quickly relieve stress, quiet a noisy mind, let go of distracting thoughts and re-center focus. There are lots of videos on YouTube to lead you through a guided experience that can a great gateway to meditation!

Take a break when it's time to do so. No time is wasted when it comes to re energizing. The contrary is true. Fresher ideas, better disposition, better productivity is the result of taking healthy breaks. Nothing good or of optimum quality can come out of an exhausted body and an overwhelmed mind.