20 Ideas for Balancing Your Life
This is just a quick list of 20 thoughts to kickstart your move towards balancing things out.
Handle one task at a time.
Spend at least 20 minutes interacting with nature every day.
Spend at least 30 minutes exercising every day.
Eat without distractions.
Make lists: goals, things you’re grateful for, people you appreciate.
Talk to people with regularity, cultivate a social life.
Work on productivity in 20-minute blocks with no distractions. One thing at a time.
Do some sort of charitable activity every week.
Be always on the lookout for new books, music, films and art to observe and learn about.
Spend at least 30-minutes a day reading.
Meditate once a day for any length of time.
Cut down on gossip, speak only when you have something meaningful to contribute.
Spend less time complaining and more time working on correcting what you complain about.
Keep a clean desk and home.
Cook your own food and avoid processed fast/frozen foods and artificial ingredients.
Spend less time on the computer and more time interacting with the physical, tangible world.
Spend 20 minutes a day trying to imagine life in another person’s shoes (doesn’t matter who).
Turn off the television.
Write your thoughts down; work up to 300-words a day.
Take 10 minutes a day to contemplate the very idea of happiness.
May 23, 2012 Leave a comment
Desiderata
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy
via Desiderata
May 23, 2012 1 Comment
I am a 24-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend. All my friends are in relationships; I feel childish in comparison, and have little to say when the conversation turns to love or sex. It’s not that I’m desperate to settle down – I just feel hopelessly lacking in the emotional and physical experience everyone else seems to have. My close friends have reassured me it’s just because I’m quite shy, but I can’t help feeling inferior and ugly. How can I stop feeling ashamed and have more confidence?
Honestly? This strikes all kinds of chords.
May 21, 2012 1 Comment
Family, friends, health.
There are certain things I don’t like to buy for myself. Jewellery for one. I think because then it represents this little, constant, reminder of something.
So it has turned out to be with the three things I wear on my left wrist. In themselves they’re not worth a lot of money, I got two of them free and the other was a Xmas gift but now I use them as reminders of things that are important to me and as a reminder when small things suddenly seem overwhelmingly important.
Also, one is bright pink and another a lurid yellow.
The pink silicone band is from Razorstorm a brand that is heavily associated with Crossfit in the UK and they were giving them out at 3D a while back. It reads ‘Razorstorm Athlete. An unfair adavantage.’ Which always feels a little ridiculous to me. Anyway, this reminder is health. Exercise, fitness, eating right, sleeping well, looking after myself. Of course, it’s a reminder of Crossfit too.
The yellow band is the one I ‘kept’ after a boat trip to Ile O’Gabriel with the family over the Easter holidays. So, clearly this reminder is family. While they are many miles away, mum and dad are in Mauritius, little sister is in California, they are still the most important people in the world (heh) to me.
The final one is a simple bracelet Ally got me for Xmas and that I’ve been wearing since. Friends. Again, they are a bit all over the place and while I’m just not that person who speaks to them constantly, I know they’ll always be there for me.
They will probably come a point when I take them off and when I do, it wont be a big deal but for right now; I like the reminder.
May 21, 2012 Leave a comment
“Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” ~Benjamin Disraeli
May 20, 2012 Leave a comment
Birthday weekend
Walk along a wall
Handstand
Jump shot
Cartwheel
Ice cream
Beer
Fish and chips
Roller coaster
Tacky photo
Go in near the sea
See the tower
Candy floss
Eat tiramisu
Have (birthday) cake
Rant
Walk the dog
Nap
Full English
Double espresso
May 20, 2012 1 Comment
