Have a Better Life

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Whether you are busy or not, making and following a life plan is an essential tool in order to live a better life. Here are six pointers recommended to be followed by everyone, especially by those busy people: focus on your priorities; envision your desired life; enumerate trade-offs; multi-task activities; try cutting corners; and, apply some strategies for stress management.

Busy people without a clear and definite life plan are likely to get burned out sooner or later. It is really exhausting to basically manage different schedules, activities, and appointments every single day. But, there is still a remedy to this. You have the capacity to live a full life. All it takes is for you to have a life plan. Your life plan is primarily intended to give you the ability of getting organized. Below are some life plan pointers to help you out:

Focus on your priorities
Your core values, which are the most essential parts of your life, should be your priorities. So, focus on them at all times. Core values might include your life partner, your kids, your health, and even your work. Try going over your daily schedule and check on every activity you listed. Identify which ones do not conform with any of your core values or priorities. Take them out of your list right away because they are just wasting your time and energy. Retain only those that can positively contribute to your core values.

Envision your desired life
Be able to visualize the kind of life you would want to have. The law of attraction is a powerful tool that can be used effectively in fulfilling your life’s dreams and goals. Picture yourself embracing your desired life as if its already happening. Figure out your activities that do not impart anything beneficial to that vision of yours. While you eliminate useless activities, also add those that may very well help you in accomplishing that dreamed life. However, it is important to be able to dream and imagine a realistic set of events that you want to happen in your life.

Enumerate trade-offs
Every time you say ‘yes’ to a new activity, make sure you know which other activities you should be able to say ‘no’ to as an exchange. You can’t simply keep on saying ‘yes’ to any addition to your schedule. You must also learn to either say ‘no’ to current activities by eliminating them on the list, or perhaps say ‘no’ to upcoming activities. Trimming down unnecessary things in your schedule to replace them with better and useful ones can make your life even better. Going for a walking exercise with your family rather than watching a television show on the couch is definitely a very good trade-off.

Multi-task activities
Combining activities can be of great help too. You can possibly clean your place while talking to someone over the phone. Multi-tasking enables you to accomplish several things at one time. This can definitely save you a lot of time.

Try cutting corners
Taking a short cut, so to speak, could be a good synonym for cutting corners. Take for instance, when preparing meals, you can use ready-to-cook ingredients such as vegetables that have already been cut into smaller sizes. This will save you time in having to peel and cut vegetables for cooking.

Apply some strategies for stress management
When you are too busy and have become so exhausted with all of life’s schedule of activities, then, it’s time for you to incorporate the use of stress management along with creating a new life plan. You have to relieve yourself from all the burdens of catching up with life’s demands. Stress management helps you in eliminating stress-causing activities. If you can’t totally eliminate these stressors, at least, you can manage them properly so they can’t negatively affect you in any way.

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I am on a medical leave and I can’t work due to some health issues. Once it is a emotional and psychological problem I can do my normal life except going to work in the office. I’m earning less money, soon none so budget, budget, save money, save money are words we hear a lot in the house.

So now, one of the things I want to schedule are my meals because everyday I struggle with what am I going to cook. Well, starting today, I’m going to follow a few cooking tips that I’ll be posting here. First ones are:

• Making a big pot of soup.

It’s easy to do and using a hide variety of vegetables, rise, pasta or beans we end up with a nutritious, filling, and inexpensive meal. Green beans and Watercress soups are my favorites. We can complement the meal with some snacks, some cheese pieces, ham and fruit.

• Salad

A simple salad with some extra ingredients such as pieces of tuna, ham, shrimp, chicken, eggs, beans, etc. can be used as a main meal instead of only a side dish.

If you a cooking tip you want to share, just leave me a comment.

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Have you made your 2010 resolutions already? One of them is reduce your body weight?  Hummm I belive so. After all the parties, traditional dishes, traditional desserts for sure that crossed your mind.

New year is just a few days ahead but you still have time to made your to-do-weight-loss-list. Remember to add:

• Healthy food
• Lots of vegetables and fruits
• Outdoor exercises
• Use your ellipticals
• Use your home gym
• Take advantage of the good weather and go for a walk
• Ride your bicycle
• Make low carb meals

I know there are much more things you can do to lose weight, use your imagination and stay away from too many calories.

My husband did something this week that never crossed our mind but that he thought it would be good to help us get through the monthly bills. About five years ago we found a gold bracelet on the street, it had no identification, no one asked for a found bracelet so we kept it always thinking that some day someone would knock at the door as ask us if we had found a gold bracelet. That day never arrived so we kept it.

We don’t use gold stuff besides our wedding ring so the bracelet was just put aside in a box. Has we have been short of money my husband decided to sell it and it was worth 80€, not bad. Well, now I’m just waiting for the day that we find a loose diamonds that we can sell to help us have a better life. Diamonds, were are you?

Should we kept the bracelet even without using it?

I feel my life is falling apart. I’m not handling my daily life specially my job. Yesterday I collapsed at work and cried most of the afternoon while I was working.

The boss isn’t incapable of thinking he might be responsible for it, that he is abusive, he treats his employees like crap so he asked me why was I crying, it I hadn’t already received my salary and paid the monthly bills. Can’t he see that it is attitude, his responses, that makes me feel depressed. Well I guess not, and in the middle of my crying I was incapable of telling him the true.

I’m not worried about getting old, I’m not worried about using the right eye cream, I just want to have a decent job with a decent boss. You might ask: why don’t you change to another job? Well, that’s not easy nowadays, crisis is striking everywhere and jobs is something difficult to find.

I just want to have a better life…

Are you working in an abusive environment?