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
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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
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 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
52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself 2014 – Week 7 – Go BIG With Changing the Words “If Only” to “Next Time”.
Change the words “if only” to “next time”. Norman Vincent Peale. For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I am going to change my “if only” thoughts or statements to “next time”. Instead of saying “if only I had done this”, or “hadn’t done that”, I am going to focus on what I learned from… Continue reading 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself 2014 – Week 7 – Go BIG With Changing the Words “If Only” to “Next Time”.
52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself 2014 – Week Two – Thinking Big With My Household Skills
This week I am going to find ways to think big with my household skills. By stockpiling supplies, buying in bulk, and cooking multiple meals so I can freeze some for later, I am going to go big with saving time and effort on grocery shopping and cooking. I am also going to search… Continue reading 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself 2014 – Week Two – Thinking Big With My Household Skills
Happy New Year 2014! – 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself – Week One
The next 52 weeks are filled with promise. A new year’s resolution is a promise to yourself, to start doing something you want to do, or stop doing something you don’t want to do. With a positive attitude and a sense of well-being, I hope you will have a year of optimizing yourself. A year… Continue reading Happy New Year 2014! – 52 Weeks to Optimizing Yourself – Week One
Optimizing Yourself – Week 43 – Oct 14 – Oct 20,2013 – My Imagination Paints My Dream
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream” Vincent Van Gogh For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I am going to paint my dreams in my mind. I am going to dream in colors of ocher and magenta, feel the beauty in the painting’s texture and tone, and imagine that I already have… Continue reading Optimizing Yourself – Week 43 – Oct 14 – Oct 20,2013 – My Imagination Paints My Dream
Review of Week 42 – Optimizing Yourself – Don’t Worry About What Others Think
This week, as I didn’t worry about what others think, I was able to be myself. Ester Hicks says that many of us learn at a young age to care about what other people think. We learned if we pleased our parents and our teachers, we got their love and felt good, and if we… Continue reading Review of Week 42 – Optimizing Yourself – Don’t Worry About What Others Think
Week 42 – Optimizing Yourself – Oct 7 – Oct 13, 2013 – Don’t Worry What Other People Think
“What other people think of me is none of my business.” Wayne Dyer I am changing the category“bettering yourself” to “optimizing yourself” this week as “ there is no end to better” as Georgia Nicols, my favorite astrologer says. Optimizing is to make the best or most effective use of my resources, and that… Continue reading Week 42 – Optimizing Yourself – Oct 7 – Oct 13, 2013 – Don’t Worry What Other People Think
Week 8 – Feb 18 -24, 2013 – Eat Less Meat
For four weeks now, I have been eating more fruits and vegetables, and I have lost weight and I feel healthier. For this week’s bettering yourself exercise, I am going to focus on eating less meat. We watched Vegucation on Netflix, a movie about a group of meat lovers who embark on a journey to… Continue reading Week 8 – Feb 18 -24, 2013 – Eat Less Meat