We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? — Marcus Buckingham It should come as a shock to no one that being happy your bathroom is clean is very different from being happy while cleaning your bathroom. It should be equally unsurprising that I didn’t get aroundContinue reading “Week Eighteen: Clean Your Bathroom”
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Week Seventeen: Raise Your Activity Level
If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. — Hippocrates This is a preamble I wish I didn’t have to write. In fact, the circumstances we currently find ourselves in – shelter in place, physical distancing, quarantine, whatever it looksContinue reading “Week Seventeen: Raise Your Activity Level”
Week Sixteen: Get Rid of Three Things You Never Use
Instead of thinking I am losing something when I clear clutter, I dwell on what I might gain. — Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify Cards on the table here, this one almost didn’t get done. As the week went on, this little “to do” sat in the back of my mind, poppingContinue reading “Week Sixteen: Get Rid of Three Things You Never Use”
Week Fifteen: Reach Out
Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours. – Vera Nazarian I thought that this week would be easy. I figured that reaching out to my loved ones would be a pleasant diversion from the emotional unpacking of previous weeks.Continue reading “Week Fifteen: Reach Out”
Week Fourteen: Start Your Life List
The way you are living will have been your life. – Unknown When I was thirteen years old, I started a list. I carried that list around with me for more than a decade and just when I thought it had finally disappeared into the ether, I found it in a box labelled “MISC OFFICE”Continue reading “Week Fourteen: Start Your Life List”
How to Be Happy 