Stop The Stress In 5 Minutes or Less!

I know this happens to everyone, but do you ever get up in the morning in a whirlwind wondering what to do first?  I don’t always take my own advice but when I do, it makes a difference.  Here’s what I do when I actually DO what I know works…

• Stop!  Stop for 5 minutes and get two things – a bible and your journal and a pen (that takes one minute)
• Read 5 verses of Proverbs for whatever day it is.  Today is the 16th so that means Proverbs 16:1-5
• Next with my pen (a fountain pen for me is so calming.  I love fountain pens) anyway, with your pen and journal capture your whirlwind of thoughts – just write for a minute… whatever is hanging over your head.  It might be like

wash hair

call 2 new leads (Renegade University)

fix cassarole to take

order flowers for sally’s dad’s funeral

spend 15″ on report before going to work – get focused for 15″

pray for sally

make vet appt for dog

This is not a to-do list.  It’s to capture your thoughts for a minute or two – each time your focus is interrupted, go to this page today in your journal and right it down – later this morning while brushing your teeth, something else will come to your mind and stress you out a bit.  Refuse that, just jot it down

forgot to call Fred yesterday

must start walking today!

Whether you walk today or not isn’t the point.  The point is “capture” your stressors.  Next, last thing for the 5 minutes we’re spending to do this

• Pray for purpose-driven action.  Pick one of the 5 verses in Proverbs and use that in your short prayer:

 ”Lord, I’m capturing my thoughts this morning and present them to you.  Give me purpose-driven actions today like it says in Proverbs 16:3 ‘Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.’  So I trust You to make that happen!  Amen.”

That’s it!  Now, go wash your hair

 

Today another beautiful day! The Secret

On the 20th of the month I chose Prov 20:7-11 and verse 8 and 9 for my prayer… bible version The Message

Proverbs 20:8 Leaders who know their business and care
keep a sharp eye out for the shoddy and cheap,
9For who among us can be trusted
to be always diligent and honest?

Lord give me diligence and honesty today so that I will increase in knowledge about my business and not be such a pushover to anything online that is shoddy and cheap. And Jesus, don’t let me produce anything that is shoddy and cheap either. Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

I Can’t Get No …Satisfaction – I Try and I Try

Let’s do something depressing!

Huh?

No, really. Let’s do this depressing exercise and then we will do an inspiring exercise.

What Areas Of Your Life Are the Most Dissatisfying?

Looking at this list…

Career
Debt
Family Time
Time Management
Income Bracket
Health
Retirement
Savings
Social Life
Community Service
Travel
Work Security
To name a few, what are the top 3 dissatisfiers in your life right now?

Moving Toward A Major Breakthrough

Someone once said, “It is the realization of dissatisfaction in life that actually can be the catalyst for change and personal growth.”

So, Get Ready For the Time of Your Life! (Here Comes the Inspiring Part)

See, most people do not get the lifestyle they want because they never actually define it.  You just now did.

Let’s say your top 3 dissatisfiers right now are debt, income and health

Debt

Picture yourself debt free. What’s different about you? Ride that wave and see yourself totally free of debt, totally free of the constant fear of never being financially free.   Awesome.  What have you done to get there?  Start out in the future of what you want and work backwards knowing in your spirit, soul and body – your whole being – that this outcome is indeed your future.

Remember,

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker

Commit To Your Future!

Income Bracket – Dissatisfier #2 – is definitely related to #1.  To get out of debt, you must increase your income!  It’s okay to decide to live with less in order to get out of debt but it is a lot more empowering if your strategy is to INCREASE your income.

Seven Ways To Increase Your Income

1. Affiliate Marketing Online – Do you have a computer?  Did you know that with the second generation of the internet, Web 2.0, anyone can set up an entire marketing machine for free?  Watch this…

I am increasing my income with Network Marketing Online.  You might increase your income with a blog that pertains to your third dissatisfier – Health.  Not as healthy as you want to be??

Let’s talk about that.  We could feed 3 birds with one seed.

Routine Revelations

Did you know that you can have a routine revelation every morning that will put your whole life on the right course for success?  Of course you know that.  Most of us know this to be true because we have experienced it… but not routinely. 

Let’s review the idea of managing ourselves.  We routinely can get into the habit of  spending tons of time on the wrong thing.  Getting caught up in anything, even if it is a good thing,  will not keep your priorities in order if it isn’t a planned response to life. 

Living With Purpose

As Rick Warren teaches, the purpose-driven life is quite spiritual.  I am writing a book on what being spiritual means but let’s focus now on what it means in the area of routines.

Routine Revelations

I know my tendency is zero ritual.  What I mean is, my tendency is not  to have a routine.  That’s why I am so good at helping others in this area.  I know about living the distracted life.  This blog is my invitation to you to live a spiritual, organized life, full of revelations that lead to success every day.  

Routine revelations that take us into successful living can happen every single day.  Revelations are secrets that are revealed.  We don’t make them up.  We discover them.  They give us light to see where we’re going and how to get there.

It’s simply a matter of routine.  What we routinely do with the time of our life has everything to do with discovering the purpose of each day.  The phrase time management is really a misnomer, as Stephen Covey says. 

It is self management that is so important.   So, let’s get organized with purpose!  It begins at night.  What is your bedtime routine?  Do you have one?  It can be as simple as what Marla teaches at Flylady.net.  But the key is to have a purpose-driven bedtime routine to start your day.  I will help you with that, step by step.  So let’s get started!

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.  Genesis 1:3-5

How To Be A Freelance Writer Without Starving

I stole this title because I love this article by Penelope Trunk, “How To Be A Freelance Writer Without Starving.” 

The article caught my eye because that’s what I’m doing with some of my time.  I charge $10 – $12 per 600 words but it takes me a while.  I would starve if that was my only source of moula!

But writing is something I am compelled to do.  I do a lot of it just for free for me   My best writing has sort of an element of what I call “From The Kingdom.”  When I write well, I have a sense of purpose for writing, but not my purpose. It’s purpose-driven ”from the Kingdom.”  

In my personal life and in my professional life, writing is a discipline that definitely tends to be disorganized activity.  So today, I’m beginning to get organized in this part of my life, and I’m getting organized with purpose!  It feels really great.

Remember, purpose is passion.  To live with passion, we have to have purpose, a “why” that get’s stronger and stronger. 

Take it from me, if you are disorganized by nature (and I am) then the very best way to become organized and experience the kind of peace and confidence that comes with it is to discover the “why.”

WHY do you want to be organized? Why do you want to write?  Why do you want your purse to be organized?  Why do you want your stacks of paper to be organized? 

Why do I want to be a freelance writer without starving?  I’ll tell you this, just asking the question will get me closer not only to a stronger “why” and therefore a much better product (article, blog, book) but that, in turn, will lead to more moula. 

Money is really just one way to measure the value you and I contribute to the world, but it’s a pretty incredible powerful ”why” too.

If we want to be a force for good and not for evil, then making money as a writer or as a butcher, baker or candlestick maker, my belief is that we won’t starve. 

What do you think about that?

Building My Website: “Let’s Get Organized With Purpose”

Whew, this website took all morning but I love putting together another bit virtual real estate out there on the net.  The skeleton of this site is sort of done.  Later I’ll get started on content for each page.  I think I’ll start with something easy – like the purse (handbag) page.  FUN!  See ya!

The Time Of Your Life

Ever wonder why you crave order in your life?  Why is it that we are almost desperate to be more organized?

Well, this site isn’t that deep although there is such a thing as the human nature’s search for order.  For me it’s been a sort of shallow time management thing.  But guess what?  I found out I can’t be shallow and organized at the same time, especially now.

This is a time in even in my small, very blessed and sheltered world, that seems unparalleled in crisis, environmental and moral crisis. Not only do most people, even in my world, live with a sense of chaos without being alarmed, they don’t even worry much about not believing in anything.  Living on purpose isn’t at all the norm yet every one still talks about wanting to get more organized. 

If you don’t believe in anything, why does it matter?  Well, it does matter.  That desire to be organized is a small quiet cry for help from your soul that is telling you as my soul tells me, “I need an anchor in the storm.”  And we do.  We need peace in our soul and craving to be organized in all aspects of our life is another way of saying, “What I do with my time matters.” 

It’s a desire inside you to find order in your life but not just that, with order, actions have purpose.  With purpose, your will have the time of your life!

So let’s get organized with purpose!