Sleep Wellness

by Terri L Mooney-Hooker

Have you ever wondered the importance of your sleep habits? How many hours of sleep are needed each night, and are necessary for overall health and well-being? What are the benefits of a good night’s sleep? Our Wellness Team did some research and is pleased to share why sleep is so important to your total health.

When one sleeps, there is a lot going on in the physical body.  For example, healing and repairing of the heart and blood vessels takes place. In addition, good quality sleep can help protect your mental health, quality of life, and safety. Sleep deficiencies can actually do harm over time. It can leave someone at risk for possible chronic health problems, affect how well one thinks, reacts, works, learns, and even getting along with others.

Studies show a good night’s sleep:

  1. Improves learning
  2. Helps you to pay attention
  3. Helps in decision making
  4. Helps in being creative
  5. Improves your physical health by helping to maintain a healthy balance of hormones
  6. Helps the immune system

As you can see, sleep is just as important as what you eat and how you maintain your total health. Being aware of your sleep habits and helping to correct any sleep deficiencies will help you to achieve optimal health. Feel better, think better, work better and in general, BE better!

Sources:

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/sdd/why

http://www.apa.org/topics/sleep/why.aspx

About TerriHeadshot
Terri is the Administrative Coordinator at MAX. She performs all administrative duties, and helps out in other areas of the company when needed. Outside of the office, she enjoys spending time with her husband, her children, two cats, and her extended family and friends. She is huge movie goer and an avid animal lover.

Anselm Insurance Solutions of Columbia Wins Top Honors

A Columbia, MO insurance agency has earned the highest award from insurance carrier MutualAid eXchange (“MAX”).

Anselm Insurance Solutions has been designated a Premier Agency for its commitment to MAX’s fair, faithful and socially responsible values and business practices.

“MAX was built on faith, strong values and service to others,” said David Wine, President and CEO of MAX.  “Anselm is a great example of the kind of trusted, community minded agency we want to associate with.  We’re proud to call them a partner.”

Dick Anselm heads the agency.  “We believe in treating the customer the way we would want to be treated and making sure that the client has the right coverages for their needs,” he said.

When not running his insurance agency, Anselm serves on the Board of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

To earn the award from MAX, Anselm met several criteria including:

  • Commitment to the MAX values of:
    • Treating others as you would like to be treated
    • Faith in a higher power, and
    • Doing good in the world.
  • Support for MAX’s Mutual Aid Ministries program that provides emergency grants to communities, families and individuals facing unexpected challenges.
  • Ambitious sales and retention targets.

Anselm Insurance Solutions is located at 106A North Garth, Columbia, MO  65203.  Phone 573-474-8732.  Website:  www.AnselmInsurance.com.  Email:  daisolutions2010@gmail.com.

MAX is headquartered at 4400 College Boulevard, Suite 250, Overland Park, KS 66211.  Website:  www.MAXInsurance.com.

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MAX Mindfulness: What Am I Thinking Now?

by Dave Wine, President & CEO

There is one thing – and one thing ONLY – that we have the ability to control and that is our mind, our thoughts.  That is why I believe practicing mindfulness is so important and can help us in every aspect of our lives.  One of the easiest things to do is simply to put a note on our desks, computer screen, a string around our finger, – something to remind us to take time often throughout each day simply to ask:

What Am I Thinking Now?

As you notice what you are thinking, you can then decide whether you want to change that thought(s).  I am simply amazed (a positive way to think about this) to find that so many of my thoughts are judging, analyzing, fretting, anxious, etc.  But most of the time I am holding those thoughts subconsciously and not paying attention to them. Then I wonder why I’m not joyous and free and happy!  When I pause often throughout the day to note, What Am I Thinking Now?, I can recognize my thoughts and then choose different thoughts.  I can express thanks, gratitude, look around and see all that is right and good, commune with God/Spirit, feel the sense of the wonderful team I get to work with at MAX, etc.  And my attitude, demeanor, and spirit changes, too!  Really mindfulness is simply paying attention to creating the thoughts and communion we most want to have in our lives – the one thing we can control in an uncontrollable world.

The easiest and the hardest thing to do!!

Dave WineDavid Wine

David is the President and CEO of the MAX enterprise, having served in that capacity since its formation in 2001.   He has forty plus years of  leadership experience in the business and faith-based worlds, being an ordained minister, having been elected to the highest position in his denomination,  and receiving numerous awards and recognition for his leadership in the insurance industry. He currently serves on numerous boards in the church and insurance sectors.  His hobbies include hiking, biking, skiing and snowshoeing as well as being an avid reader.  David and his wife, Sharon, have three daughters, a son, and four grandchildren.