When you're young you think you are invincible. Until things that "happen to other people" start happening to you, I don't think you ever realise bad things can happen to you. The longer you live, the more likely it is that something that “happens to others” happens to you. A natural disaster, a car crash, cancer. Bad things will happen. I don't want to leave it to chance whether I can deal with these things or not. I work on my thinking constantly. And the best remedies for prevention and cure of hardships have stood the test of time. Through stoicism, meditation, gratitude, exercise and healthy eating. You need no more, apart from time to aid the healing. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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Many famous people have found teachings in the private notes of Marcus Aurelius. Although written long ago, the problems are the same. Like Letters From A Stoic by Seneca, I find Meditations best when consumed little by little daily.
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I love headspace and Yoga Studio fits right alongside it in my morning routine. Starting the day with breathing, mindfulness and stretching can really set you up for the day. Give it a try.
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Read daily for a dose of perspective from the past. The problems humans face has been the same for millennia. Nothing has really changed since the Romans.
This is a slice of literary meditation for the mind. Not all letters will hit the spot but that depends at what point in your life you read them. Use this book as a daily habit on teaching you how to think.
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What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog Tony Robbins is a big believer in the power of questioning to influence someone. It is obvious, in hind sight, that they need to come up with the answer to be bought in to the solution. This is instinctive but gets beaten out of you as a child. We learn it is bad to say “why why why”, It just is. Learn this text book. Regurgitate this date. Why not teach your child to ask better questions? Maybe because you have not asked or answered them of yourself. Maybe because you will not like the answer you think of. “Daddy, why do you have to go to work?” Easy answer “to pay the bills to buy toys.” Hard answer, “because I did not invest in myself enough to generate income that is not linked to my time. So now I have to miss seeing you in return for buying you things that will never replace the short time you have with me.” Time adds up, minutes turn to hours, turn to days. Shave the excess, spend time on the important things, ditch the rest. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog Spend money to buy time Anything that you derive no joy from. Anything that you do not want to learn. Anything that you do not want to get better at. Outsource. You want to look at a nice garden more than you want to do gardening. You want to enjoy the peace of a nicely decorated room more than you want to be a decorator. You want to enjoy a clean kitchen more than being a cleaner. The reason why most people do these things themselves is because they do not value their own time. Work out the ROI. You can afford more help than you think. If it takes a professional two days to decorate a room, how long is it going to take you? Twice as long? What about how much they charge? Is a painter earning more per hour than you? If so, become a painter. If not, employ one. Hint, your time should be priceless. The question is, if you take away all the busy work. You hire a gardener, a cleaner, a professional chef (yes you can afford this if you buy lunch and drink three mocha-choca-lattes every day). What are you going to do with your time? If you have no excuses left, guess what? You might be able to do the dream job that you have been putting off for so long. Or you might not. Realise though that the busy work is just an excuse. The real thing that is in your way is fear of failing. Be prepared to fail. Or make the version of "success" so small that you cannot fail. Taking the first step forwards is a win. Or you could watch Netfilx. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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Okay, so this is an app recommendation and a book recommendation in one. Basically if you need more gratitude in your life, this is easiest way I have found to get it. It literally takes only 5mins or less each day, so why not try it. I have found the book to be best, but the app is great if you are travelling, or need to do the journal whilst on the go.
Pic below is from the five minute journal website, but gives a good overview of what it is all about:
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Headspace: Guided Meditation and Mindfulness
There are lots of apps on meditation and mindfulness, but the one that I have found the easiest to get into a habit with is Headspace. I found some other apps quite difficult to start due to the long silences (I know this is the point of meditation). But when starting I found it useful to be guided along what I was meant to be thinking. Headspace seems to prompt me at just the right moment where my mind starts to wander. Give it a try - the first 10 days are free:
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What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog Once you have done something, it cannot be undone. The only thing in your control is either to try to repeat what you have done or try to do something different next time. This is easy to remember for ourselves. More difficult is to realise this of others right at the moment of your reaction to their actions. Remember “We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.” Steven R. Covey Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? Meetings are likely the biggest time waster in your working life. But in your whole life, the biggest time waster must be worrying. Not living in the present. Seneca says it better than I, “But what is greater madness than to be tortured by the future and not to save your strength for the actual suffering, but to invite and bring on wretchedness? If you cannot be rid of it, you ought at least to postpone it. Will you not understand that no man should be tormented by the future?” Worrying is the poison of the mind. Mindfulness and habits are the antidote. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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