Skills of a Grandma

Here it is a new year and every one wants to loose weight or get organized and the list goes on.

I am working on three different ones as well. I would like to loose 50 pounds and get my house cleaner and better organized, plus I want to start a business on line. My time line is six months. My way to do these things this year will be different. I have found two ways to keep track of my progress.

One way is to write it down, ( I read that if you write it down you remember it better). So I wrote it down in my date book, so every month I am focusing on what my goals are and that way I can work on them. I also got a “To Do List”, so every day I write one thing down for each goal, and make sure I get it done. So far so good. The second way is I bought different colored 3×5 cards, (each color is a different goal) cut them in half and taped them to my mirror in the bathroom, on my closet and my frig. So I see them daily.

Just write what you want to do and pull it off when its complete, or change it if you need to. I also know that my family sees these too, hope to get some help, or words of encouragement. Everyone knows that family can be a big help or they can be no support at all. Good luck with that.

So right now go write your goals down and stick to two or three, don’t over whelm yourself. Work on what you need to do and how you need to do it. Once they are done work on the next one, and the next one, and the next one. Keep the process simple, and keep going…Never Give Up!!!! Here is a little help I think you might like….Its about the Brain!

It essentially means being cognizant of what’s happening around you and in your life, and measuredly selecting all your actions. Without awareness, you’ll be enduring your whole life on automatic pilot. Like this person:

He experienced a period where he was dispirited quite a bit. He’d awake in the morning and his entire day would be pretty much destroyed by depression. Then, one day, he arose, and his brain began doing its thing. He decided he was simply gonna let it do its thing awhile and watch. So he positioned in bed, and simply sort of paid attention and produced some notes.

He sat there for approximately an hour. And he recognized, as he observed it intermittently that it was thinking of things he didn’t wish to have occur, things that he didn’t like and centering on that he wished to be where he wasn’t. And that would pretty much smash his entire day.

Awe, I understand. Poor person.

Or, as I don’t know where he lives, let’s simply utilize him to exemplify a point. There’s a person who at the start wasn’t aware in the least. He was essentially running his whole life on automatic pilot, simply allowing the depression to get the better of him. Then one day, he recognized what was happening, and was like “plenty is plenty”.

It’s like he simply woke up. Like when the hypnotizer snaps his fingers and you abruptly became aware of real life. Now, he had a waking up. But it’s astonishing how frequently little awakenings happen to all of us.

Do you wish to change something? You 1st have to become aware of it! Put differently, cognizance is the number 1 achievement that allows psychological development.

For instance, let’s suppose you had to travel back and forth to work each morning. Further, let’s suppose you’d forever take the same road, get lodged in rush-hour traffic, become furious at the traffic, then get apprehensive as you’d be late for work. Then, the following day, you’d leave your home at the same time and take the same road, get lodged in traffic once more, and the whole procedure would repeat itself.

That’s a life without awareness. With awareness, after two or three times, you’d recognize that you’re forever getting lodged in traffic, and do something about it. You’d attempt taking another route, or leave sooner, pull off flexible working hours to head off the rush hour traffic, or simply acquire some audio books and podcasts to hear in the car and utilize your time efficiently.

As you elevate your awareness of what’s occurring around you (and inside you), you’ll begin to amass useful lessons and learn as you go through living. You’ll be accumulating valuable feedback from each situation.

And, candidly, awareness is amusing. When you’re in a social locale, and may tell who likes who, who’s pulled to who, etc. Or when you happen to be speaking to some furious individual, and you’re thinking “I understand exactly why you’re furious. If you’d simply quit shouting and take a good long view at your life, you’d recognize you detest your line of work!” Or if individuals disapprove of your actions, and you are able to think “I understand precisely why I’m doing this, and I understand it’s the correct thing to do.”Regrettable if you don’t like it.”

Awareness is truly composed of 2 bits. Common cognizance of your life, where you’re going, and what you’d wish to better. Then awareness in the present moment.

They’re 2 dissimilar sides of the same coin, and have to be tackled a bit differently. To gain common cognizance of your life, it helps to consider your life, contemplate, and perhaps write things down.

To get aware in the present moment, it helps to escape your head, stop examining so much, and rather just live in the present moment. Observe your surroundings. Observe what you are able to feel and see and hear with all your 5 senses. Observe what’s occurring around you. Notice details that other people may overlook. Simply escape your head. Be in the present moment. As long as you’ve your awareness up and executing, you are able to forever think back over your experiences once you’re back home, and pull all the lessons.

Journaling is good for getting aware of your life as a whole.

It essentially means authoring a diary. This lets you recap your progress, feel great about the great matters in your life, and work out

how you are able to better other bits of your life. I didn’t trust it initially, but putting things down is a crazily powerful strategy. Somehow, once you put down stuff, something shifts in your brain. You never have to study the writing again. The simple act of putting it down lets it dip deep into your subconscious mind, and gets it arranged. I frequently put down my goals for that precise reason.

It’s difficult to say how frequently you ought to journal or how much to put down. I commonly pick up a journal when there’s something truly huge occurring in my life, and I wish to capture all the life lessons I may. I favor utilizing pen and paper, and evidently so do most other individuals. But if journaling on a PC works for you, that’s ok. Put down as much as you feel you require. You are able to write long complicated prose, or little bullet points.

Acknowledging the moment. Look upwards!

For a long time, I used to walk about looking at my feet. And then, one day, I read it’s a truly cool thought to really look upwards and around when walking. So the following time I walked, I looked up.

I was like “scream”! The world looks so amazing when you quit looking at your feet!” I’d simply look in the distance, and a mere walk down the road would turn into a heroic movie scene. I likewise utilize this as a metaphor for living as a whole. Life is amazing when you begin noticing it. When you “take your eyes off the ground” life get to be so much richer!

As I kept my gaze off the ground, and walked about like that more and more, I began observing things. Acquaintances would nod and greet me from the distance. Plenty of individuals would make eye contact and grin as we became closer. I realized there’s lots of eye contact wanting to happen to you. You simply have to keep your eyes off the ground.

And it’s the same in living. There’s lots of “eye contact” that wishes to happen to you. Individuals wish to know you. Organizations wish to work with you. Successful individuals would like to give advice to you. But you’ll overlook all that if you keep looking at your feet. So peek up, and make the opening move of approaching somebody. Life is too short to be spent viewing your feet.

I will check back with ya in a couple of months to see how we all are doing. I am lucky, because I have a 4 year old grandson, who likes to help and do things with grandma. So we make games up to help pass the time. Plus he is learning to count, keep active, healthy, and keep organized too.

Well tune in for more , that’s enough for this time. Have fun and love to laugh.