Category: 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself 2014

Optimizing Yourself – Week 17 – Setting Constraints as Big as Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) was the master of setting constraints. He once made a bet with a publisher at Random House that he could write a book using 50 words or less. His power to set limits paid off when Green Eggs and Ham sold more than 200 million copies and was Seuss’s best- selling… Continue reading Optimizing Yourself – Week 17 – Setting Constraints as Big as Dr. Seuss

Review of Week 16 – Open Space In My Heart For Blessings

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I cleaned out the cupboard in the laundry room where I put everything that I don’t know what to do with. I call it my procrastination cupboard, full of stuff I haven’t decided to throw out yet. It is where I look, if someone asks me where that thing-a-ma-gig… Continue reading Review of Week 16 – Open Space In My Heart For Blessings

Week 16 – Optimizing Yourself – Discard An Item A Day To Create BIG Space

This week, I am going to get rid of at least one item a day that is not useful, beautiful, or joyful, as Paulo Coelho says, in order to “open space in my heart for all the blessings” that this week will bring. What a positive feeling to open space in my heart for blessings… Continue reading Week 16 – Optimizing Yourself – Discard An Item A Day To Create BIG Space

Review of Week 15 – Spring Yard Cleanup

I cleaned up the rubbish in the yard for this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, and took a load to the landfill, packed away the snow shovel, and set up the tables and chairs and patio lights. When it rained for three days, it did thwart my planting and power washing plans. But I managed to… Continue reading Review of Week 15 – Spring Yard Cleanup

Optimizing Yourself – Week 15 – Spring Yard Cleanup in a BIG Way

I am going to pack away the snow shovels and ladders and bring out the weed eater and garden lights. I am going to clean up the grass and weeds that are growing again, and mulch up any lingering leaves. I will make a trip to the landfill with any rubble that has gathered in… Continue reading Optimizing Yourself – Week 15 – Spring Yard Cleanup in a BIG Way

Review of Week 14 – Optimizing Yourself – Get More Sleep BIG time

‘Photo by Michael Phillips https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeyphillips. This week I learned that I have made not getting enough sleep a habit, and habits take some time to break. I did manage to get about an hour extra of sleep each night, but I still did not get as much sleep as I need. By setting the goal to… Continue reading Review of Week 14 – Optimizing Yourself – Get More Sleep BIG time

Review of Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body in a BIG Way

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, instead of giving into the demands of daily life and feeling disconnected to my body, I took time to connect with my body. I awakened my olfactory sense with scented creams, soaps, perfume, and bubble bath. I wore soft, fleecy clothing against my skin. I connected to my life… Continue reading Review of Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body in a BIG Way

Optimizing Yourself – Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body Each Day in a BIG Way

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I am going to nurture my body each day. Feeling your breath going in and out is the easiest way to connect with your body. Focusing on breath makes you present, and rids your mind of obsessive thinking, as your thoughts transfer into your body. This creates peace and… Continue reading Optimizing Yourself – Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body Each Day in a BIG Way

Review of Week 12 – Going BIG with Creating Positive Self-Talk

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I changed to using positive self-talk words like: do, choose, proud, make, and when, on my to-do list, to motivate me to get tasks accomplished. Using decisive words left no doubt in my mind that I was going to accomplish tasks, helped me tackle little tasks easily, and the… Continue reading Review of Week 12 – Going BIG with Creating Positive Self-Talk

Week 12 – Optimizing Yourself – Go BIG With Creating Positive Self-Talk

Behavioral researchers describe the human brain as the most powerful computer there is. We think up to 50,000 thoughts a day, but many of them are negative, and those thoughts are the basis of our self-talk dialogue that we all have throughout the day. Old programming from our past gets stored in our subconscious mind,… Continue reading Week 12 – Optimizing Yourself – Go BIG With Creating Positive Self-Talk

Review of Week 11 – Go BIG with Eating 6 Small Meals a Day

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I ate six small regularly scheduled meals a day instead of three big meals. For the first four days, it felt like an inconvenience to stop and prepare so many small meals when I didn’t feel hungry, but as I continued to follow the schedule, by the fifth day,… Continue reading Review of Week 11 – Go BIG with Eating 6 Small Meals a Day