That can be the answer. Get some sleep. Have a lazy few hours. Only do what you want to do. It can really help.
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Category: Reframe your thoughts
Restructure Your Day
Do you have any structure to your day? If you work from home, are retired, are between jobs or are a primary carer, your day may not have much structure. For people with a structured day this may seem like a dream.
However, it could become a disaster. Without structure, or order, life can get pretty freeflowing, or chaotic. That may seem odd but it depends on how you look at things.
If you don’t have a set plan for each day, you just fall into whatever you stumble upon or are asked to do. This freeflowing nature can be liberating for awhile but is not a great way to live life if you have some specific goals to achieve before you’re not capable or before you die.
Structure in your day, whether imposed (by say a job) or self imposed, is very good to achieve more and reduce anxiety. So decide on your hourly activities, write them down and follow the structure.
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CategoriesReframe your thoughts
The Never Happy Movement
It’s not clear when this all started but something happened, and built over time that, while a natural progression of things, is not very healthy.
Never being happy with what you have can be a real drag in life. But while we’re all so forward focused, looking at what we want in the future or the now, we forget to look around and appreciate what we already have.
It’s best to avoid the never happy movement. And if you actively appreciate all the wonderful things you have, you’ll never have to join.
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Rekindle Fond Memories
Recall fun times from years ago and regale your children, grandchildren or other young listeners with tales of your youth. You get to relive the adventure and give them a new perspective on life.
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Know When To Stop
Often times things start out well. Maybe it’s a gentle joke, a little teasing, spending on a few little things or picking at a dish of food. However, these things can go too far.
You know what you’re doing too much of, whether it’s binge watching tv, spending, eating, drinking, teasing, complaining, harassing or staying up too late.
A little bit and occasionally is fine. Moderation in everything as they say. But with that, you need to learn when to stop. And then stop.
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Mental Toughness
Decide you have it and you will. Decide you don’t and you won’t. It’s all in how you decide to live.
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What Would Better Look Like?
People say they want things to be better. Well, what specifically and how would that look?
Many people say they like natural but when you note that how things are is natural, they want to manufacture it to be different.
People are funny.
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Spending To Help Can Go Too Far
The US government is borrowing on an unsustainable course, says a headline I glimpsed earlier. They noted that 88% of millions of simulations have shown this. So only 12% of simulations have shown it is sustainable to some degree.
I guess you only need one to work. Cross your fingers and hope is not the best strategy though.
If it goes wrong, the current government will have the dubious distinction of having overspent and destroyed the economic goose that was the US economy.
I am sure they mean well. They want to spend a little to help the very impoverished to get the real necessities. But soon enough, like many good intentions, they pave the road to hell.
You see, it doesn’t stop with the basics. Then they want to help lower income people have things of cultural importance like a tv, car or a drinks fridge. These are not necessary to live for most people. Yet the government convinces itself that they are doing good deeds.
They don’t notice they are using other people’s money to pay for unnecessary items. If the person really wanted it they could get more income or spend less elsewhere or even save first and spend once they have the required funds.
Remember, a good start to a program must be continually revisited or it could go too far and bring about disastrous pain in the future when the house of cards collapses in a light breeze.
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Schedule Your Minutes
Allocate a set time to achieve your goals and tasks throughout the day. Whether it is for a phone call, or to write a letter or even just to eat lunch, decide how long you have to get it done and then do it in that time frame.
Make it snappy and pacey though. If you can get up from working, have lunch, and be back at your desk in 15 minutes, great! Then don’t drag it out for 35 minutes because you think you have a spare 20 minutes: you probably don’t.
Use every minute like you mean it and it’s precious. Jam as much life in as you can in every 24 hour period – whether working or playing.
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Set Your Day The Night Before
Make great plans and stick to them. They may be delayed by events or go a little sideways at times. Allow for that but stay the course and carry on.
Prepare in writing what your following day will be. Plan the hours, and allow the correct amount of time. Don’t allow too much but allow sufficient time to actually complete the tasks.
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