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This is how you should tidy up your house to eat healthy and focus on work
Having our kitchen under control, and a good workplace, is essential to cope with the days of quarantine in the best possible way.
Order is important in all levels of our life, but now that we cannot leave the house, keeping our home orderly becomes essential. We live in extraordinary circumstances, due to confinement at home for the coronavirus crisis, which make our office, our gym and our place of leisure, for a time, also become our office. If it is already difficult to establish limits, if disorder prevails, it can become impossible.
Amaia Elias, founder of Amai Studio and an expert in comprehensive reforms applying the Marie Kondo and Montesori method highlights the importance of create an environment that makes us feel goodSince how our environment is affects our emotions, health and even family and partner relationships.
Order in the kitchen
The kitchen is one of the centers of our house, and what can benefit most from maintaining order. It is not only important to maintain safety guidelines, always important but now essential, but maintaining order can help us eat better and healthier. The dietitian-nutritionist Ana Amengual explains in her book «Put order in your kitchen» that everything influences when it comes to eating better. From placing the food well on shelves and the refrigerator (we must, for example, always put the foods that are going to expire before the first ones), to how later we store the leftover food (always in tupperware; we must avoid the bowls with transparent film, for example) can influence the way we eat.
Order when working
Now that we must create a workspace inside our house, it is very important to keep it orderly and delimited in order to be productive and be as comfortable as possible. The interior designer and architect Laura Gärna has developed a series of very effective guidelines to create the ideal space for teleworking:
1. First of all, it is very important find the optimal area of our homea. “The first thing we must do is find an area in which we feel comfortable and in which we can maintain the concentration that our work requires,” says the interior designer.
2. It is important that this area has a good natural lighting. We must have good light, the necessary light so as not to strain our eyes. It is convenient to combine the lighting that is more focused on the workspace (such as a gooseneck lamp or a desk lamp) with a more overhead lighting.
3. The third point refers to postural hygiene. If you have any office chair or deskIt is preferable to use this before any other, if you do not have any, look for a chair that gathers your back well and that adapts to your dimensions. As for the table, it must have the required height; It will always be better to place our workspace in tables intended for this than in other types of furniture such as dining tables, since they have a different height than the desk tables.
4. Finally, we return to the issue of order. It is important to save it in the workspace. For this we can help ourselves with items such as boxes, pens, or small decorative trays that we have at home.
Take advantage of quarantine to get to permanent order
For her part, Amaia Elias brings us some tips to organize your house, in this way spending time at home with the family will be pleasant. The professional applies the Marie Kondo method, and remember that, for it to work, “The change has to be radical”, and this time “we have the opportunity to spend enough time at home to do the entire order marathon.”
“For the marathon to be successful, before you start, think about how you want your life to be after the change. We all have magazines or decoration catalogs at home. Cutting out and making a collage on the wall is the perfect exercise to keep the goal of the process in view “, he explains and adds that, in addition, this exercise is a lot of fun and it can be done as a family.
One of the rules of the method says that you should not buy anything until the process is finished, so now is the ideal time. “Yes we rush to buy without having complete awareness of our belongings the method will not be as successful as we hope ”, says Elias. That is why, since we cannot leave home, we will not be able to buy until the process is finished.
«We must take advantage of this moment, to stop and reflect on the lifestyle we live. This can help us a lot, concludes the reform expert.