The 'One Goal' Method to Breakthrough Transformations in the New Year. As we wind down the last few weeks of 2013 and anticipate the dawn of a new year, we become introspective.
Naturally, we review what we've accomplished in the past months and how we plan to improve our lives in the coming year. 7 Ways to Reset Your Health. My health has had a rough couple of weeks.
It started with an overwhelming business trip to the West Coast and ended with the Thanksgiving holiday. There was good travel and bad travel. There was good stress (fun, family, cool experiences) and bad stress (airports, drama, family meltdowns, a flu virus, crowds). Womens Health & Lifestyle Magazine for Canadian Women. 101 Dirt Cheap Ways to Enjoy Yourself. Sometimes we just need to kick back and enjoy ourselves.
What follows is a list of 101 simple pleasures and enjoyable activities to explore without breaking the bank. This list only skims the surface… the possibilities are endless. Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you’re going to miss in the years ahead. – Author Unknown Photo by: cispeace Related. Things To Be Happy About. How to Make Time Stop Slipping Away. 12.5K Shares Twitter 9 Facebook 15 Google+ 37 Pin It Share 0 LinkedIn 0 inShare0 StumbleUpon 12.5K Email -- Email to a friend 12.5K Shares × “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life” ~ Charles Darwin Do you ever feel as if life is passing by way too quickly?
That you have no idea where the day went let alone the month, year or decade? 145dd6e153e9d96a470ff1feb96704a2.jpg (1700×2200) 9 Healthy Habits That Will Improve Your Life. These nine healthy habits are so obvious that it’s an absolute shame that not a single person who reads this will have performed all of them in one day.
Every single person has some excuse for not taking care of themselves. Most of those excuses will relate to not having enough time. But you make time to check your Facebook and Twitter feeds dozens of times a day. Just start doing these nine things and you will be guaranteed to end up happier and healthier. 1. There is absolute mounds of evidence that the human body needs at least seven hours of sleep every single day. Image by Katherine Squier via Flickr – Creative Commons License. When You’re Hard on Yourself: Replace Guilt with Self-Compassion. “Be gentle with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others.”
~Lama Yeshe “Guilty,” admits an offender. “Guilty,” proclaims a jury. Things are pretty black and white in trial verdicts and courtroom pleas (although there are still plea bargains and hung juries, mitigating circumstances and appeals). Life is rarely as cut-and-dried as the criminal justice system. I’ve experienced guilt in different shades of grey—in rational and many irrational ways that bear no real relation to the “crime” at hand, or to any crime at all. 6 Simple Actions You Can Take Today For A Healthier Self Image By Tomorrow. The way you see yourself affects every aspect of your life.
A person with a healthy self-image experiences life very differently from someone with an unhealthy self-image. From work, to relationships, the way we feel about ourselves determines how successful we will be. Not external success, but internal success; which is the only success that matters. There’s just no way around it, having a healthy self-image is imperative to experiencing a fulfilled and joyful life. It’s no secret that the majority of us treat ourselves with contempt. Developing a virtually impenetrable self-concept can take years, especially for those whose self-concept has taken a beating over the years – from themselves and from others. 1.)
Think of someone you know (or know of) who can’t be trusted to come through with anything other than disappointment. How Simple Mini Habits Can Change Your Life. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
~Alan Watts It was late 2012, just after Christmas, and like many others I was reflecting on the year. I realized that I had ample room for improvement in too many areas of my life, but knowing that New Year’s Resolutions have a poor 8% success rate (University of Scranton research), I wanted to explore some other options. I knew I wanted to start before January 1st too, because arbitrary start dates don’t sit well with me. On December 28th, I decided that I wanted to get in great shape.
I wasn’t motivated, I was tired, and my guilt was making me feel worthless. The technique is from the creativity book Thinkertoys, and it is to consider the opposite of an idea you’re stuck on. You could say the opposite is eating fast food and sitting on the couch, but the opposite that came to my mind was one of size. Initially, I scoffed at the idea. The One Push-Up Challenge Is Born. You’re Not Behind; You’re Just on Your Own Path. “To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”
~Sven Goran Eriksson Endlessly comparing ourselves to others, idealizing their best qualities while underestimating our own are self defeating thought patterns, and they hurt our self-esteem. Yet in the competitive nature of our world, many of us do this. As a result of my own self-defeating thoughts, throughout my life, I’ve repeatedly felt like I was five years behind where I “should” be. Free Insightful Personality Test - VisualDNA. Free Insightful Personality Test - VisualDNA. Free Insightful Personality Test - VisualDNA. 60 Ways to Become The Person You Love. Photo credit: Niffty.. Only the time and attention we give ourselves demonstrates how much we love and admire ourselves. Self love requires that we place ourselves at the top of our priority list.
Self-nurturing is everything that makes us feel positive, happy and joyful. When we decide to honor ourselves with the love we need and deserve like the sun we radiate a glow, touching everything and everyone in our lives. Below are 60 ideas for glowing: 60. 59. 58.