Life Ponderings

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Let Go and Live Tip 3

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This is the third in a new series of simple tips you could take to try and bring a bit more life back into your life!Tip 3 – Just SmileAnother simple one.....just smile =@)Smile at the madness that is surrounding you....if the bus is late, just smile, why not? Is it the end of the world? Can you do anything to make it come sooner? No, so just smile!Late for work? Just smileDropped a glass? Just SmileAs someone once said....."Don't worry....be happy"Peace

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Let Go and Live Tip 2

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This is the secondin a new series of simple tips you could take to try and bring a bit more life back into your life!Tip 2 – Break the PatternLife can easily get into a rut, or a pattern, but it is so easy to break and just give you something different each day, something outside of work, outside of the regularity and give you time to experience something different, which could bring a smile to your face. =@)Why not get off the bus or train at a different stop? Take a different road to work in the morning?Go to a cafe, restaurant, club, bookshop, place that you have never visited before.Simple things to give you new experiences!Peace

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Let Go and Live Tip 1

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This is the first in a new series of simple tips you could take to try and bring a bit more life back into your life!Tip 1 - Take a walkSimple hey?Why not take a walk around your town, village or city? Perhaps without a destination, just wander or go down a street you have never been down before. Alternatively, take a new route to your destination, be spontaneous.Why not try following something which appeals to you around the town, or make up little rules such as you can only turn left at road intersections, or only head down a street with the most number of vowels in the street name.It may open up a whole new world to you, right on your door step.Of course you can also use this method to explore cities when on holiday or away for work!

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Not enough time for a sandwich....

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I recently came across this article in a national newspaper, and it wasn't so much the story that got me (as there is a constant struggle against the big corporations taking over, robotising and destroying the high street, all in the name of cheap food), but it was this one section in particular.

Office worker Judy, who nipped out to buy a sandwich, admits she feels ashamed to shop there. "But it's quicker to pop in here than wait for a sandwich to be made at one of the nicer shops. I come in almost every day." Morris, S - The guardian, 17 March 2010

That statement that it is quicker to pop in for a sandwich than wait for one to be made really struck a chord with me. It sums up pretty much what motivated me to start this website. Why are we so pressured to eat so quickly? Why is it seen as a waste of time to sit or stand and wait for a unique sandwich to made? Why is there such a rush to get back to ones desk?Of course there is the made of the sandwich itself, indicative of modern consumerism, quicker to buy a mass produced tasteless, salt filled sandwich (and cheaper) than to have a sandwich made for you, a unique sandwich, made (sometimes!) by what could be described as a sandwich artisan.Why not stand and watch the sandwich being made, take time from the day to daydream or say hello to someone in the cue, form a friendly relationship with the sandwich maker, just be....what is wrong with that?I hold my head in despair!Peace

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Not having time to take time

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This seems to be a modern phenomena, we are rushing around so much, and doing so much at work, that there is no time to just take time to just be......and how much time does just 'being' take? 5 minutes, 1 minute or an hour? Does it matter?Lives regulated by time...trains , buses, the commute, trying to avoid the traffic or the school run, we can't afford to be late, therefore we continually rush from A to B to C....everything is so far apart, getting places is such a trial, especially on time....! The stress of being late, the stress of the delays, the noise, the crammed conditions, but no time to just sit and ponder....why, because this would make us late.And then we work later, and longer and have to rush home, cook, clean, check email, be contactable 24/7...how do we get time to just sit?I really agree with the statement that Time = Wealth, and currently I am skint!Time to change as there is so much more2 life than this!Peace

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Power Napping

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or the power of the nap!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8524549.stmIsn't that stating the obvious?This is something that I have been suggesting (but laughed off and told to stop being ridiculous) at a number of places I worked at in the past. It is madness, you can get so much more from a person by allowing them a little freedom in their jobs, and allowing to follow their natural body rhythms. But of course, no corporation can see this! We are cubical prisoners!

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Time to ponder?

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Is it wrong to spend five minutes pondering? Why is it so hard to find five minutes to ponder?

Walking to work this morning, I stopped an paused for a moment to look out at the mist over the river. I wanted to stop, just for a few moments to stare and enjoy, maybe two minutes, maybe seven minutes.....just to have the freedom of thought......

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I couldn't....I had five minutes to get to work for nine on the dot, and I couldn't be late, and I was a five minute walk away from work....I couldn't be free to enjoy the real world beauty surrounding me, and this made me rather upset. What is wrong with pondering, being free in mind even for a few moments....it would have had had such and effect on my mental wellbeing.....but the force of doing the right thing and fitting in to the corporate world was too strong...

.....this is so wrong.....and of course makes me realise that there is more 2 this!

Today's thought....let's have more pondering and idle staring time!

Peace