Plan a vacation that will actually charge your batteries
Most of us work our asses off all year and then race off to a vacation fully booked with excursions, eating, drinking, and socializing. You can come back even more tired than when you left. Plan a trip, even just a day or two, with the intention to just relax and recharge.
Balance your health with more than just working out
When we live high-stress lives, sometimes our only release is to push harder at the gym. You don’t have to stop working out, but play with swapping in some sauna time or a walk outside. See how it feels to care for yourself in new ways.
Take time to do nothing
Schedule a time in your day to literally do nothing. Yep, nothing. Just park it on your couch and stare at the wall, lay in a hammock and gaze at the clouds, or sit in a nearby park and watch the trees sway. Do it for at least 10 minutes. This will help you get used to letting your nervous system relax.
Take a nap
Take a nap!?! How? When? You can figure it out. Give yourself a gift and just take a damn nap.
Month: October 2021
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I told my girlfriend I don’t like it when she makes jokes about my weight.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “She told me to lighten up.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Are You Having Fun with Your Imaginary Friends
““A writer’s life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!” ~
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Your Dream is Real, Grab Hold of It
The huge gulf between where you are and where the dream resides disappears the moment you let go and go all in to make the dream come true.
💡 Something to Think About
What is it that life wants from you? That’s a tough question. One way of thinking about the question is to look at the events that come into one’s life. It’s in this space of reacting to the mundane, the overwhelming challenges, and everything in between that we learn about ourselves. If we don’t like what we see, we can always change how we react to the day’s events.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ The Traits of Greatness
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” ~
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Away with Funeral Music
Away With Funeral Music
Robert Louis Stevenson
AWAY with funeral music – set
The pipe to powerful lips –
The cup of life’s for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
The pipe to powerful lips –
The cup of life’s for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
🤗 A Better Life ~ A Hand’s Day’s Work
Unclench the fists and let the hands do what they were designed to do, love, help others, and work.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I spoke with my family today after WiFi was down.”
Pete: “That was nice.”
Joe: “They seem like nice people.”
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Small Wire
Small Wire
Anne Sexton
My faith
is a great weight
hung on a small wire,
as doth the spider
hang her baby on a thin web,
as doth the vine,
twiggy and wooden,
hold up grapes
like eyeballs,
as many angels
dance on the head of a pin.
is a great weight
hung on a small wire,
as doth the spider
hang her baby on a thin web,
as doth the vine,
twiggy and wooden,
hold up grapes
like eyeballs,
as many angels
dance on the head of a pin.
God does not need
too much wire to keep Him there,
just a thin vein,
with blood pushing back and forth in it,
and some love.
As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.
So if you have only a thin wire,
God does not mind.
He will enter your hands
as easily as ten cents used to
bring forth a Coke.
