We all have those days when the stresses of work follow us home.
But a recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology has found that two simple activities — exercise and sleep — can go a long way toward not only making you feel better, but also making sure that your bad day doesn’t affect your home life.
Researchers from the University of Central Florida, the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin asked 118 MBA students with full-time jobs to wear activity monitors for a week. They also surveyed the people whom those participants lived with.
They found that participants who took a daily average of 10,900 steps were less likely to take out their frustrations on their…