Taking Care of Yourself

Life is busy. Home, family, friends, work ... they all take time, right? How do you balance your time? I often feel like I'm struggling with this - sometimes I'm a step ahead and other times a step behind. Right now at work I feel like I'm drowning, but I'm not the only one and in some ways that helps. I try to keep my spirits up as much as possible, so as not to be dragged down into the spiral of negativity that can happen when everyone has too much to do and not enough time.

In my search for words of wisdom, I came across the lululemon site and their manifesto has some good advice. My favourites include:

• Your outlook on life is a direct reflection of how much you like yourself.
• Life is full of setbacks. Success is determined by how you handle setbacks.
• You ALWAYS have choice and the conscious brain can only hold one thought at a time. Choose a positive thought.
• Wake up and realize you are surrounded by amazing friends.
• Listen, listen, listen, and then ask strategic questions.
• Compliments from the heart elevates other’s spirit and will often result in an encouraging word for someone else ... a domino effect.
• Communication is COMPLICATED. Each person is raised in a different family with a different definition of each word.
• Love.
• Jealousy works the opposite way you want it to.
• Rules of Marriage: respect the other person, compromise, be open to communicate, and build a common set of life values. If you don’t do this, you are in a lot of trouble.
• Just like you did not know what an orgasm was before you had one, nature does not let you know how great children are until you have them. Children are the orgasm of life.
• Friends are more important than money. Don’t trust that an old age pension will be sufficient.

Here are the ones I would like to learn to embrace:

• Write down your short and long term GOALS four times a year. 2 personal, 2 business and one health goal. A university found only 3 percent of the students had written goals. 20 years later, the same 3 percent were wealthier than the other 97% combined.
• Drink FRESH water and as much water as you can. Water flushes unwanted toxins and keeps your brain sharp.
• Observe a plant before and after watering and relate the benefits to your body and brain.
• Coke, Pepsi and all other pops will be known as the cigarettes of the future. Colas are NOT a substitute for water. Colas are just another cheap drug made to look great by advertising.
• SWEAT once a day to regenerate your skin.
• One hour of aerobic exercise will release endorphins to regenerate cells and offset stress.
• A daily hit of athletic induced endorphins will give you the power to make better decisions and help you be at peace with yourself.
• Be yoga. Breathing has you live in the moment and stretching releases toxins from your muscles.
• Do yoga so you can remain active in physical sports as you age.
• Do it now. The world is changing AT SUCH A RAPID rate that waiting to implement changes will leave you two steps behind. DO IT NOW, DO IT NOW!

So I am off to get dressed, wake up the kids, start cleaning house and then out into the yard to help Dadums cleanup out there.

Toodles for now!