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Can You Do Nothing for 2 Minutes?

December 3, 2011 in Cool Stuff, Dr. Phil Moments | No comments

I’m a mover, a do-er, nervous energy is my constant companion. If I’m not doing something I’m thinking about the next thing I need to do. Going to sleep at night can be a battle between my exhausted body and my ever running mind. I’ve got things to do, people to see, places to go. If I’m not busy then I feel guilty – this is inherited from my parent’s crazy work ethic (thanks mom n’ dad!).

Today in my net travels I stumbled across this little site called Do Nothing for 2 Minutes. It was a challenge to sit and watch the screen for 2 minutes without doing anything (I failed about 4 times before making it through). Give it a shot and let me know how ya do ;)

P.S. The parent site is calm.com which is also pretty neat and worth a look-sie.

Notes from the Universe

November 11, 2011 in Buggie Goodness, Cool Stuff, Dr. Phil Moments | No comments

Positive thinking has always been a stumbling block for me. I know that our thoughts have a major impact on our response to life and sometimes the outcome of situations. Still the “Negative Nelly” in me tends to turn my mental space into a minefield of nay-saying and worst case scenarios.

I’ve written before about the things I’ve tried to help me help myself in this regard. In some cases I’ve gotten better but I know that there’s a long way to go. One of the things that I’ve found that has really made a difference is my daily email from The Universe. Each weekday morning I wake up to a note from The Universe sitting in my inbox, they are non-denominational and encourage positive thinking, remind me of the good in life and just generally make me smile. My weekday ritual is to wake up and before doing anything else I read my email from The Universe and try to commit to memory what lesson it’s trying to convey so I can reflect on it during the day. If you’d like to sign up (it’s free) simply click here. It’s a nice moment of the day and hopefully it does as much good for you as it has for me :)

Fresh

January 1, 2011 in Buggie Goodness, Dr. Phil Moments | 2 comments

I cannot believe it’s already 2011. It’s nice to have a new year to start over, a marker in time that one can stop everything and begin again. This year will be a great year, foundations are being laid to increase my prosperity, health and good fortune. 2010 was full of hard work and lots of dissapointments but that’s in the past now and I can close the history book on the year knowing I’m stronger for my trials.

It’s cliche to say that it’s cliche to make resolutions…but I digress. This year I can sum up my projected goals in a neat little list:

  • Create more a more positive atomsphere in my life and the lives of those around me.
  • Wake up at 5am and get my ass to the gym at least 3 times a week.
  • Get back to blogging at least twice a week.
  • Take more pride in myself and my appearance.
  • Love everyone, even if they don’t deserve it.
  • Continue to take serious action on the financial front and continue to dig out of debt and start saving a little something for a rainy day.
  • Stop living in the past, dream about the future, but be alive in the present.
  • Look myself in the eye at the end of every day and know that I gave 100% of myself to that day.
  • Play Like A Champion Today

This is going to be a great year, I extend my wished of health, happiness and prosperity to you all!
Let’s rock 2011!

Emotional Baggage

February 10, 2010 in Dr. Phil Moments | 1 comment

Going into a new relationship can be complicated. I wish that when entering a new relationship it would be more like buying a brand new home that’s filled to the brim with new furniture – new everything. Instead new relationships are moving into a new house but taking all your old stuff with you. There’s no way to get around doing it…the good, the bad, the ugly vase your great aunt gave you all come along for the relocation.

Dragging along all your old emotional baggage, insecurities and issues tend to add a bit of strain to a new relationship. Things that happened to you in the past can easily dictate your response to what is happening in the present. Shit that had nothing to do with the new person you’re with can wrap it’s hands around the new life you work to build and begin to choke it out. Problems like this have to be kept in check and in perspective.

I honestly have difficulty with this very thing, but I’m working on it. I don’t want to be gun-shy, I don’t want to have pre-concieved notions about how people are. But I do. I just wish there was a bellhop somewhere in my head that I could check my old baggage into and just never come back and get it. I guess the key is learning to carry it without it weighing you down in the here and now.

My Cheek, She is Burning

January 20, 2007 in Dr. Phil Moments | 8 comments

I’ve been bitch-slapped by a quote people. How you ask? Well, part of my New Years Resolution was to do a full-scale overhaul on every single aspect of my life. I sat down with a pad of paper and made a long ass list of everything I’d like to improve or revamp this year and then sublists of what I need to do to make the main goals really happen.

Needless to say after I finished writing I sat back and looked at the mass accumulation of lists and thought in a total panic:

“Where the fuck am I going to find time to do all this?!?!”

I got my answer yesterday in the form of this quote:

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

–H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer

Pretty freakin’ humbling eh? And I thought I was a busy bitch…pfffbt. I’ve totally been put in my place.

Be honest now, do you find yourself needing this particular bitch-slap?