We sometimes tend to sweep things under the rug or just put them off when it may not take much actual time or effort to deal with them if handled early. We also tend not to notice the cost mentally of this growing, probably by now unwieldy, pile of unaddressed issues.
Start a new habit of cleaning up the little things. Look in your refrigerator and toss any food you know you're not going to eat, so when you open the door next time you'll have the feeling that all of your choices are wonderfully tailored just for you. Toss all of the high fat and high sugar foods with empty calories. Yes, you'll need some snacks, but make them healthy snacks. It's time for some new habits to let your inner self know you mean it this time. It's time to give your new friend the support he or she needs to make changes in habits to support better health, greater vitality, and more choices in life.
How do you normally make choices day to day? Does your style support or strain your psychological wellbeing? If you find yourself just barely making it to the gas station when you're in a hurry to get to an appointment, or you find you've run out of shampoo when you're in the shower getting ready for work with no time to spare, these could be clues! Stop habits that keep you feeling like you're behind the eight ball, and feeling like you're always running behind. Develop habits like filling your gas tank when you're not rushed, well before it gets close to empty. Order shampoo and other essentials ahead and keep your spare on the shelf. You can be rich yet feel like there's never enough, and you can have little money but feel very pampered because you've thought ahead to what you might need and you've put it where you can find it when you need that product or that condition. It's a great way to begin creating a lifestyle that produces a feeling of being supported, whether you're alone in the world or have a houseful of servants.
Do you and your partner have alone time, or are you always taking care of your children, your parents, your business, your house? Schedule a date night at least once a month, or better yet once a week. During your date just focus on each other, as if you're on a first date. Leave discussions of work, family and other issues for another time. Just pay attention to each other, treating each other with respect, and getting to know each other as people. And have some fun!! Fun doesn't. have to cost money, but it does take time. Make the time.
Another seemingly little thing that can have great benefit: Look at the space in your home where you stack incoming mail and papers to deal with later. How big is the stack, and when is the last time you went through it and tossed old or outdated stuff? You may think you put papers on that stack to get them out of the way, but I'll bet with each piece of paper you added to the pile, another entry was logged into your mental to do list.
Get 5 file folders and label them:
• Urgent
• Upcoming Events
• Health
• To Do
• To File
When a new piece of paper comes in, it either goes in one of these folders or in the trash, or in another important folder you add. At some point every day go through the Urgent and To Do folders and do what you can. When its time to leave for the concert you wont have to go hunting for your tickets and directions because you'll know they're in the Upcoming Events folder. Once a week clear out the To File folder.
Does my own environment look that clean? Well, periodically it does. Most of the time its what I'd call an organized mess. But it sure feels great when I've finished a project and I take an hour or a day to get to the bottom of my piles and start again.
The same principle applies to resources like time, money and attention. As you go through the day make a list of how you're spending each hour. I bought a calendar with plenty of space to write in each day to help me with this process. Do this for a week and you'll learn alot about where your time goes during your very busy days. Are you spending your resources wisely? In alignment with your values and goals? Or is someone, some organization, some feeling of obligation you have eating up resources that you really need to support your own health and wellbeing? Look honestly at your commitments to others and make arrangements as needed to put your own house in order so you have the resources to take care of you.
Think honestly about who is going to do your job if you're not there. If you're in business for yourself, what happens when your telephone or computer systems go on the fritz? Everything stops until they're working again because you rely on them for everything in your business to run. What's even more essential to running your business than your telephone or computer system? You. Your body. The person who uses the telephone and computer, and who makes decisions for your company.
If you're a parent its the same principle. If you don't take care of you, then your children run the risk of having no parent, or one with limited ability to be available.
Take care of yourself first. Start by doing little things, and gradually add more ways to support your health and wellbeing. Everyone will benefit when you take care of the person and the body entrusted to you by Life.
Best wishes,
Marilyn McLeod
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