Yesterday, I was sitting at my computer and I noticed I couldn’t think any more. My thoughts felt like they hit a brick wall. As soon as I noticed this, I felt how heavy and tired my body was. I knew I had pushed myself too far. The should monster tried writing it off to just being Friday. My other selves knew better.
Have you ever had a similar experience? When you’re brain just said that’s enough . . . let me out at the nearest exit.
This morning I realized I was missing something in my daily routine. Yes, laughter.
Then I began remembering . . .
. . . remembering how on Friday’s I would quit working around 4 pm, find a movie that made me laugh.
. . . remembering how laughter was in my daily routine.
. . . remembering how it’s been at least 30 days since I last laughed. (This was hard to believe too.)
I was having fun but I hadn’t laughed.
Then I remembered laughter was on daily success list. I remembered the list was in my success binder. After finding the list I realized there were quite a few things I had forgotten to keep up.
Do you have a daily success list to keep you in emotional balance?
Even if you have a list, when’s the last time you revisited it or updated it?
Laughter is good medicine. Sometimes we need to remember to add it to our daily success schedule.
Don’t wait until you hit a wall like I did. (I know, not smart, Catherine.) I get it.
Resources you may like to visit:
Laughter is the Best Medicine (article)
20 Funniest Newspaper Headlines Ever (laughter)
Laughter Therapy (video)
Love does make the world go around when you think about it.
Love euphorically changes our physical chemistry. It makes us feel special, high, or low.
It’s a wonderful feeling. It can be fleeting at times or engulf our life to where our feet doesn’t touch the floor – metophically speaking of course.
It can drive us crazy or make us crave it so desperately we do crazy things.
Does this mean we can control love? And how many types of love are there?
This was my internal conversation running around my mind this morning. The internal dialogue made me curious on how love affected my behavior. The images of my past behavior with love were embarrassing at times followed by joyful remembrances.
Love, are we running towards it? Or running away from it? And if we in the middle, then where are we? Is this when we’re stuck on something we’re trying to achieve?
This conscious and subconscious dialogue had me asking, “Which one was I doing right now and where’s the balance? Or do I have balance already?”
A long list of questions continued.
They ended with, “If we’re stuck in a goal, is all we need is some level of love? Can love conquer whatever fear is keeping us from moving forward?”
I answered, “Yes, if we love something it conquers the fear. Right? Or was this an affirmation I’m just remembering.”
Sho-bang, that’s not an answer, it’s more questions. Anguishing, I wanted answers not more questions.
Just the thought of love, or writing about it, changes or body chemistry and can change what we want to change.
Yet, have you ever defined what love means to you, recently? I know I haven’t.
Now, I think I’m beginning to understand how poets write…love oozes out through the pen. How J.K Rowling wrote the magically world of Harry Potter…it was her joy for storytelling and the joy it brought her younger brother at bedtime. It was love. Love that definitely made the world go around.
If we’re stuck with something right now. Can bringing forth the love move us forward?
Share how you have used love to move past a fear?
In response to many requests, here is my vision map.
© Copyright 2009, Catherine Franz
As an entrepreneur for a long time now, I’ve learned that trying to handle everything yourself isn’t a smart business practice.
The question to ask is, “How do you bring others onboard when you’re on a tight budget?”
Just recently I went through this process. Since I hadn’t did this in a long time, I had to start from the beginning. One part to the answer was to find a few summer interns and maybe ones for the fall as well. I wanted to focus on this process, not just because of the financial savings, but because I find interns bright, eager, have less fear of voicing their ideas and opinions, and come up with creative solutions. Plus their energy is catchy if harnessed correctly. This goal also matched my strength of being an excellent mentor and teacher. And handles my weakness – not enough time to accomplished all that I want to do.
Let me share my strategy.
Step 1. I named my goal. To attract three interns for the summer. One for strategic development and planning. Another for marketing campaign development. And a third to support me with editing and info product development.
Step 2: Next I created task list. Afterward I place in priority order.
Example of my list.
Step 3: After completing the list, I added the estimated time I thought it would take to accomplish the task. From this I was able to create a start date and end date for the project. I wasn’t happy with how much time it was requiring so I made adjustments and looked for tasks that could be delegated to my virtual assistant. I was able to cut my time requirements in half and the completion date move up almost a week.
Step 3: Next, I shared my goal and list with my VA in an overview email. Then set up the delegated tasks in OneNote with connections to task assignments in Outlook and forwarded them to my VA. Then I began my tasks.
Continue the attraction . . .
Maybe you have used interns in the past, please share your experience, or things you’ve learned in the comment section.
This Young House ran a three-part series on ways to save money.
And new life as new wife added her five ways to "save it."
Both of these ladies had some great ideas I'm going to use.
However, here's one of my favorite no one has ever talked about…it's about saving bucks buying groceries.
I loved using this process especially when I'm saving for something special, like vacation, or to purchase something extra special, or when I used to be broke at times.
Here's what I'd do.
I'd pull out every piece of "food item" from every pantry space and set it out on the kitchen counter or dining room table. Generally, they were stored in more than one cabinet.
I'd organize the items into meal plans.
Next, I'd review the refrigerator and freezer items. I'd make a quick list of what's in there or just add the item to the individualized meal plans I was creating.
I'd place a single plan on scrape paper and set it on top of the group, adding in any refrigerator or freezer ingredients I already had.
Then, I'd add any missing items needed to complete the meal.
Continuing…I'd go through and add a day of the week for the meal, skipping the days I wouldn't be home…Monday, this one on Tuesday, etc.
Generally, I'd continue up to the time more money would be arriving – like payday and leave the rest to the next "Tour de cabinets."
Another way would be to stop when the meal groups possibilities end.
Even when I didn't need to do this for some particular purpose, I'd like doing this. This seemed to transition how I looked at my grocery shopping experience. I seemed to think in groups when I was shopping.
When I first did this, many years back, I found I had three weeks of meals planned and my shopping list for that three weeks cost me less than $20 to complete. This experience is a great eye opener and perspective changer. I'm absolutely positive this has saved me thousands of dollars over the years, if not more.
Even though money has changed for me now, I still like to do this a few times a year. It cleans out the cabinet and brings me back for a good reality check.
To me this is putting the cart before the horse.
Happy cabinet shopping!
How about you guys? Do you have any tips and tricks for saving a little dough? Do tell!
We don't normally think of the little tolerations in our life until they build up enough negative energy they cause a "get my attention now" challenge.
Yet, all tolerations affect how we feel and what we attract.
First, what is a toleration?
Tolerations defined by you are different for each of us. Something you tolerate isn't tolerable by someone else. This stems from our conditioning and beliefs.
Continue reading "Removing Tolerations to Let More of What You ‘Really’ Want In" »
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