This is the forth a new series of simple tips you could take to try and bring a bit more life back into your life!Tip 4 – Don't make notesGoing to a meeting? Going to a lecture or class.....don't make notes....just sit and listen....and enjoy! Why not?Peace =@)
Let Go and Live Tip 3
This is the third in a new series of simple tips you could take to try and bring a bit more life back into your life!Tip 3 – Just SmileAnother simple one.....just smile =@)Smile at the madness that is surrounding you....if the bus is late, just smile, why not? Is it the end of the world? Can you do anything to make it come sooner? No, so just smile!Late for work? Just smileDropped a glass? Just SmileAs someone once said....."Don't worry....be happy"Peace
Not enough time for a sandwich....
I recently came across this article in a national newspaper, and it wasn't so much the story that got me (as there is a constant struggle against the big corporations taking over, robotising and destroying the high street, all in the name of cheap food), but it was this one section in particular.
Office worker Judy, who nipped out to buy a sandwich, admits she feels ashamed to shop there. "But it's quicker to pop in here than wait for a sandwich to be made at one of the nicer shops. I come in almost every day." Morris, S - The guardian, 17 March 2010
That statement that it is quicker to pop in for a sandwich than wait for one to be made really struck a chord with me. It sums up pretty much what motivated me to start this website. Why are we so pressured to eat so quickly? Why is it seen as a waste of time to sit or stand and wait for a unique sandwich to made? Why is there such a rush to get back to ones desk?Of course there is the made of the sandwich itself, indicative of modern consumerism, quicker to buy a mass produced tasteless, salt filled sandwich (and cheaper) than to have a sandwich made for you, a unique sandwich, made (sometimes!) by what could be described as a sandwich artisan.Why not stand and watch the sandwich being made, take time from the day to daydream or say hello to someone in the cue, form a friendly relationship with the sandwich maker, just be....what is wrong with that?I hold my head in despair!Peace
Not having time to take time
This seems to be a modern phenomena, we are rushing around so much, and doing so much at work, that there is no time to just take time to just be......and how much time does just 'being' take? 5 minutes, 1 minute or an hour? Does it matter?Lives regulated by time...trains , buses, the commute, trying to avoid the traffic or the school run, we can't afford to be late, therefore we continually rush from A to B to C....everything is so far apart, getting places is such a trial, especially on time....! The stress of being late, the stress of the delays, the noise, the crammed conditions, but no time to just sit and ponder....why, because this would make us late.And then we work later, and longer and have to rush home, cook, clean, check email, be contactable 24/7...how do we get time to just sit?I really agree with the statement that Time = Wealth, and currently I am skint!Time to change as there is so much more2 life than this!Peace
Power Napping
or the power of the nap!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8524549.stmIsn't that stating the obvious?This is something that I have been suggesting (but laughed off and told to stop being ridiculous) at a number of places I worked at in the past. It is madness, you can get so much more from a person by allowing them a little freedom in their jobs, and allowing to follow their natural body rhythms. But of course, no corporation can see this! We are cubical prisoners!
Time to ponder?
Is it wrong to spend five minutes pondering? Why is it so hard to find five minutes to ponder?
Walking to work this morning, I stopped an paused for a moment to look out at the mist over the river. I wanted to stop, just for a few moments to stare and enjoy, maybe two minutes, maybe seven minutes.....just to have the freedom of thought......
BUT....
I couldn't....I had five minutes to get to work for nine on the dot, and I couldn't be late, and I was a five minute walk away from work....I couldn't be free to enjoy the real world beauty surrounding me, and this made me rather upset. What is wrong with pondering, being free in mind even for a few moments....it would have had had such and effect on my mental wellbeing.....but the force of doing the right thing and fitting in to the corporate world was too strong...
.....this is so wrong.....and of course makes me realise that there is more 2 this!
Today's thought....let's have more pondering and idle staring time!
Peace
Why did I start this site?
I had to do it! That is the simple answer! I got sick of the 9-5 lifestyle that I was stuck in. I realised I was no more than a biological robot, with no control over my life. I had brought into the propoganda. Work to live and live to work. I was trapped in the cycle, the cycle of consumerism. I had to work to buy the things that were supposed to make me happy when I wasn't working to buy the things that were supposed to make me happy!At the same time making myself sick and , my health was suffering, my mind was suffering, everything was negative. There had to be more to life than this, there just had t0 be More 2This!!I wanted to change my life around, I wanted to escape. I didn't know how, but I knew I had to escape.After searching the web, I realised that whilst there was so much information out there, it was difficult to find somewhere which wasn't the ***ultra positive selfhelp site, where you have to buy tons or stuff or there is just so much to search through ****. I wanted to find somewhere where the people got me, people understood me.Most of the resources I found (and this included self-help) books, I found quite patronising. They also seemed to focus on how great there lives were, and I some cases they seemed to be written by people who were already living pretty good lives already. I wanted to know more about the journey, about smaller steps I could take to change mylife around, with helpful tips.How to make millions, how to do this and that, turn your life around in 20 days. Maybe I just don't work that way, and actually I am not sure I want a million dollars (or pounds!), I just want to enjoy life, having enough to get by on. There was little out there for me.So I started this site. Well I have started on the journey. I thought that I would like to share it with others, and hopefully provide some inspiration to other people in similar situations.The site might sometimes be negative, sometimes positive, but always HONEST. That is the mantra of this site.This is my journey, you are more than welcome to tag along for a bit or for a while, that is upto you! But all I hope is that you find some of it useful and a guide on your journey.Peace