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7 Easy Ways To Boost Your Metabolism
Everybody benefits from having a quicker metabolism. Your metabolism is responsible for many of the body's major functions including how many calories you burn at a given time. Therefore, if your metabolism is fast, you will burn a lot of ...
Preventing Injuries
Contrary to popular wisdom, stretching is not the cure-all that we’ve been led to believe. Walking, riding on a stationery bike, or doing calisthenics is a better way to warm up than stretching. If you stretch before your muscles are warmed up, you...
Ten Healthy Reasons to Procrastinate This Holiday Season
Many people procrastinate on their holiday shopping, which begs the question: are there good reasons to put it off? For a humorous break this season, let’s examine why we might actually want to wait until the last minute to shop! You’ll have to...
The 7 Things To Look For When Joining A Gym
You've finally committed to getting fit and you want to join a gym, but which one? Unless you've been a regular at gyms in the past you really don't know a good one from a bad one. A good fitness center has their members as their number one...
The Power Workout
Not enough hours in the day? Feeling the crunch when it comes to finding time for just your own needs? If exercise is important to you, you might do well to consider the following:
Scenario: I really want to get in shape, but I work all day and...
Total Diet
Lose Fat in 15 Minutes
Written by Ted Frazer
Stoking the furnace
Look at the cover of any lifestyle magazine today and the chances are that the two words "burning fat" will appear in some form or another. Its an obsession. Even those who...
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4 Super Reasons You Will Love "Easifying" Your Life
Are you someone who wants a simpler life, but who associates simplifying with giving away everything you own, and going back to baking your own bread? Unfortunately, that attitude can scare you away from making the simple (pardon the pun) kind of changes that can make your life so much easier, better, and happier.
Instead, let's agree that simplifying means whatever you want it to mean in your own particular life. For me, it means eliminating the stuff around me that I find neither useful nor beautiful, and trust me, other people would not always agree with my definition of useful or beautiful. However, it also means setting up systems to make sure that I have easier ways to handle some age-old problems in the future.
To me, simplifying means "ease-i-fying" (ok, so there's no such word, but maybe there should be!). Easifying defined would be, "minimum effort for maximum pleasure:" Easifying simply looks at the problems of everyday life, then poses creative - easifying - solutions.
Here are 4 super reasons that you will love easifying your life.
1. Less Stuff, Fewer Problems: With less stuff cluttering up your life the benefits are easy to see. You'll have less stuff to clean, (yippee!), less stuff to have repaired (more cash flow!), less stuff to dispose of (environmentally good!), and less stuff to find (halleluiah!) Just pick one room in your house and look around it. How much of that stuff are you really enjoying and getting use from? How much of it is an aggravation for cleaning, repairing, losing, fixing, disposing of, etc.? I'll bet you a paycheck (not really!) that it's at least 75/25.
2. Less Effort, More Energy You'll have less fear and worry associated with carrying around a lot of stuff. It will simply require less effort. By simply combining things into one (aerobics and weightlifting at the same time), by setting up a system to do the
work for you (a bill paying system), by eliminating a task altogether (delegate it to someone else), you'll be calmer, not stressed with the day to day logistics of stuff. An example I love to use is the freedom that comes from not smoking. It's not the freedom from the habit that most people notice first. It's the no more worrying about having enough cigarettes, no more fears of not being able to find a lighter. You'll feel more in control of your time, your space, your energy.
3. Less Baggage, Better Relationships: "Stuff" refers to not only material things, but mental and emotional clutter as well. By cleaning out the needto, haveto, and oughtos, of your own life, you'll have better relationships because there's not as much "stuff" in your life to fight about. Put the past in the past by returning anything you borrowed, by apologizing to whoever you need to, by getting your bills up to date, by sending the card or gift you forgot to send, by making the phone call you need to make. You get the idea. Anything that you "should" have done, but neglected to, has you Tied To The Past.
4. More FUN! Having an easified/simplified life means having more time for the things you dream of like reading, or traveling, or entertaining, or exercising, or playing with the kids, or visiting with friends. You'll feel more in control because the clutter -- physical, emotional, and mental -- will no longer dictate how your space is arranged, or how your time is spent (looking for things), or how your energy is used (frustration, aggravation). Need I say more?
About the Author
Kathy Gates, Professional Life Coach, believes that "Life Rewards Action". She can help you create goals, overcome procrastination, organize your time and money, find your true passion, and learn to love the real you. Visit www.reallifecoach.com, email Kathy@reallifecoach.com, or call 480.998.5843
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