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01 Jul 09

39 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist - Dumb Little Man

# Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren't already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone -- it doesn't have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.

# Get outside. Don't let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it's raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.

# Savor food. Don't just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.

# Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.

# Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?

# Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).

# Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.

# Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers an

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01 Nov 08

15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Working Another Day | Productive Flourishing

    • 15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Working Another Day


      October 17th, 2008 | Flourishing



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      Are you in the right line of work? Should you be doing something else? Ask yourself the following questions:



      1. Do you get to do your work, or do you have to do your work?
      2. If you were guaranteed your current standard of living no matter what you did, would you still do what you’re doing?
      3. True or false: When you think about what you do, are you dreaming or dreading?
      4. Who decides when you work: you or your organization?
      5. Do you get through your day or are days a chance to advance your goals and projects?
      6. True or false: If you stopped liking what you’re doing, you would quit.
      7. Does your productivity keep you working or does it help you maintain productive motion?
      8. Do you like to talk about what you do, or would you rather people not ask about it?
      9. True or false: What you’re doing today helps build skills and achievements that help will help you do what you want to do 6 months to a year from now?
      10. Does doing what you do drain your energy or renew you?
      11. Do you make your To Do list or does somebody else?
      12. True or false: You would be proud if someone you loved did what you’re doing.
      13. You get up early or stay late because…1) you want to work on the project or 2) you want to get the project done.
      14. When you say what you do, do you say “I am a (_____) or I (_____). Example: I am a painter vs. I paint.
      15. Would you do what you’re doing if you weren’t getting paid for it?


        16. I recognize that some of the questions seem the same, but sometimes asking the question differently yields different answers. Please share some of your answers or thoughts if you’re up for it.

11 Oct 08

Life coach? - Timeshare Users Group Online Community Forums

I can answer the what to do with the rest of your life questions..for free...
I decided long ago (7 years ) when my sister-in-law (32 yrs died of brain cancer), cousin-in-law (34yrs died of cancer), uncle (46yrs died of brain cancer) left this earth that I need to rethink my life. At that moment I STOPPED looking at a JOB for my happiness...and saw my job as an opportunity to make the $$ I needed to Live the life I wanted after work. Sooo...I now have 3 jobs (4 if you count being a mom) , because I said ..."Gee when I retire...I want to teach", so I got a job teaching part-time (online and in person 1 day a week), then I said..."Gee, I want to start my own travel business" ... so I started a part-time business planning and selling small trips to friends and family - of which we get to go on with a lot of them. Then I said, "Gee, I would love to travel more..." and I used all of this part-time income to finance my monthly trips of at least one 4-day weekend, and make it so that we travel every holiday or day off during the year that we can.

So the morale of my story is....DON'T LET YOUR JOB define YOU or the life you LIVE when you leave work. DON'T LET the people you work with bring you down...REALIZE that YOU decide how people or a situation EFFECTS you. AND....live your bucket list...write down all the things you want to do if you retired and $$ was not an issue, and TRY to work them into your life today. That way the job you are working, is just a means to start to live the life you have yet to discover for yourself...and who ever said you needed to have the answers today...take your time and plan your adventure.

Who made the rule that you can only have 1 career your whole life, who made it so we couldn't change our minds? No one, Live your life saving each experience as an adventure to discovering yourself.

When I changed my outlook on what I do at work from my purpose in life, to a means to LIVE my life, I am a lot happier with all the things I do, even the things I did at work and at home that I felt were

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