Three Simple Hacks to My Environment I Rely on to Fix My Awful Posture

In the car, around the home, and on the bed

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It all started in high school. I thought I was being cool by slumping my head, dropping my shoulders, and walking around looking at the floor. But one day, I was sitting with a good friend of mine and she said: “you should sit up, you have bad posture”. The comment hasn’t left my mind since.

It was a wake-up call for me. Not just to stop being cool at the expense of my neck and shoulders, but to fix my posture. If I could fix it now, I would always have good posture and I know it would be a sign of good health and a great confidence booster.

Every day, I work hard to sit up, stand tall, and otherwise try to fix my posture. It’s a constant battle to fix my years of awful posture throughout high school (and even university and beyond). Besides trying to be mindful of my posture and fix it whenever I realize I am going back to my old ways, I figured out ways to hack my environment to force me into good posture. Let me explain:

In the car

I try to have good practices when I’m driving. That means not speeding because I can, using the mirrors all the time, doing shoulder checks even though I might be the only car on the road for miles and looking both…