Slow Down! March 9, 2009

One of the ways we cause undue stress in our lives is when we are always in a hurry. While our modern day society with all of it’s niceties in technology have us more advanced and has afforded us the ability to accomplish tasks more effectively, it’s also brought along with it the complexities of doing too much and taking on more responsibility than we can handle.

Rushing from appointment to appointment, place to place and task to task can cause much stress.

Re-evaluate what you are doing and ask yourself these two questions:

1- Is what I’m doing benefiting me or someone else?

2- Is what I’m doing productive?

If you answer no to either of these questions, you may want to consider eliminating whatever you are doing from your schedule.

Making simple changes to your schedule by eliminating non-productive tasks & actions, can help you to lead a simple life with less stress. The sooner you re-evaluate your “to dos”, the sooner you’ll be able to re-prioritize your life, slow down and lessen your stress.

Leading a simple life February 28, 2009

Leading a simple life will help you to live stress free.  After reading a book by Joyce Meyer, entitled “100 Ways to Simplify Your life”, I’m convinced that there are things we can do to simplify our lives that will result in less stress.

In this particular post, I’d like to share with people some of the tips from this book (in my own words of course), that will help you to lead an either stress free life or a less stressed life.

So, for starters, one thing in particular that will help you simplify your life is to not take on more responsibility than you can handle.  Sometimes us humans think that we are super women and super men.  We often try to please people (who likes rejection right?), by committing to do things we know we are either not qualified to do or we know we don’t have time to do.

Start today by determining not to commit yourself unless you know that this is something you know you really want to do and are able to do.

Here’s to the journey that leads to a life of less stress…….leading that simple life.

Until next time when I share more on leading a simple life… Peace and blessings