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Sale away from the safe harbor. Fear not. Embrace the unknown. LIVE.
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“If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me , I’d still have to say it.”
– George F. Burns
1. One thing at a time. Do it right now. Remove distractions.
2. Simplify your schedule. Learn to say no. Leave room for down time and fun.
3. Get moving. Walk, hike, play a sport, go for a run, do yoga.
4. Develop one healthy habit this month. One habit at a time – for example eat fruit and veggies for snack, drink water instead of soda.
5. Do something calming. Find what calms you down. Housework, yard work, meditation, nature walk, reading, taking a bath.
6. Simplify your finances. Automate savings and bill payments and debt payments. Find ways to have fun that don’t involve spending money.
7. Have a blast! Have fun each day, even it’s just for a few minutes. Laugh a lot and often. Smile.
8. Get creative. If you like to write, do so. If you prefer to paint or play music or sketch or make pottery or do interior design or build things…Just do it!
9. Declutter. Take 20-30 minutes to just to through a room, getting rid of stuff you don’t use or need anymore.
10. Be early. Schedule some buffer time to avoid being late – because being late can be very stressful…and if you get somewhere early, meditate!
Now your life will probably never be stress-free – I don’t think that’s even desirable, even if is possible, because stress is something that challenges us and helps us grow. At a reasonable level. But when stress gets too high, it causes us to be unhappy and unhealthy.
“It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself…It is only love that can give us insight into what is real and what is important. And so a radical act of love makes sense, love for life and for the emergence of one’s truest self.” —– Jon Kabat-Zinn
To bare our heart (or soul) to someone, to reveal our innermost thoughts…to undress your soul. Check out my illustration – Feelings & Expressions©.
Expression of Joy – photo by Lars
Begin & end each day with an Expression of Joy! Then you know you have done something that day to not only add value to your own well-being but in the process you have touched so many others – many whom you’ll never see again, some you’ll wake up next to in the morning.
The key to understand joy in the things you see or do is awareness. Awareness is knowing what is happening around you. Self-awareness is knowing what you are experiencing. When you truly accept, choose or take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions, your commitments to them rises and so does your “expression of joy”… Being aware of who you are is also about knowing your interests, attitudes and values – for more about that contact me for a free consultation!
An act or a thing is important to you because you make it important. You are in control of what you make important — no one else. What’s important to you is a choice you make…
And that’s all it is. Like choosing vanilla or chocolate. Do you have a reason for choosing one flavor of ice cream or the other? No, you simply choose. What you make important is just like that. No reason. Just choice.
A choice is an either/or deal, because choice is always a relative thing. Do you want this or that? To go here or there?
You will choose what’s most important to you at the time. To help you make choices that forward your progress, simply ask yourself: which choice serves me best right now?
Then you commit…commit to your success…Now, as soon as you’ve made a commitment, you’ll be tested. You will doubt yourself — and your commitment. Don’ worry. (Be happy.) Just re-commit. And you may (I’m sorry — you will) have to do that again, and again, and again.
If you need help finding out what’s most important to you, learn how to commit and have someone backing you up again, and again, and again when you doubt yourself – and your commitment, try me Values Staircase™ for free. Click here for a free 20 minutes consultation!
“Take the first step in Faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King
Oscar Wilde said – “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people only exist”
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. Imagine all the wondrous things your mind might embrace if it weren’t wrapped so tightly around your struggles. Always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost. Because it’s not what the world takes away from you that counts; it’s what you do with what you have left.
Please take moment to click on this link, read, learn and spread the insight – a few reminders to help motivate you when you need it most:
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