Some of us don’t give ourselves any Me Time at all, because
we’re convinced, for family, gender or cultural reasons, that taking time for
ourselves is selfish. Some of us take
our relaxation primarily with evening television or by physical pampering like
mani-pedis.
I’ve shown you how having Me Time is the least selfish thing
you can do for your family and career in another post. For now, assume that you’re convinced that you need Me Time and are ready
to consider spending anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour on most days, entirely
engrossed in your most creative, fun activities with absolutely NO guilt! How does this sound? Look what joys await you when you get up from
the zoning-out-with-TV habit:
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Diving into library books and magazines on crochet
[come sit down next to me!]
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Watching videos, and YouTube – humor, how-tos,
history, science, drama, cute kittens.
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Chatting with friends
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Reading, especially about hobbies or interests
that engross you (deep-ending in histories of Elizabethan England, Ancient Scythia
or WWI)
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Picture-intensive books about travel, garden
makeovers or visual hobbies (art, crafts)
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Listening to catchy, upbeat music.
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Listening to audiobooks and podcasts.
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Building or making physical objects, from bat
houses and cat houses to human furniture.
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As well as more specialized joys, like feeling
the joy of warm water all around you, or taking a virtual bike-ride along the
wine valleys of the Loire.
Now THAT’S what I call Me Time! Are you ready to plunge into all this
fun? Good, because I want to give you
the 5 powerful reasons why you want this particular form of Me Time:
Reason #1: Your
chances of developing 14 different forms of cancer, plus diabetes, Alzheimer’s
and heart disease plummet. Your blood
pressure and blood cholesterol plummet.
You add an average of 7 healthy years to your lifespan!
Reason #2: Your
enthusiasm for life and your positive energy will soar, without you having to
recite affirmations or engage in any other life changes!
Reason #3: You’ll get fewer colds, you’ll be less liable
to depression even when the days are cold, cloudy or rainy, your sleep will be
easier and sounder and you’ll be able to successfully race for the express
commute bus.
Reason #4: Your career will improve because your mind
will be calmer, your confidence will skyrocket, your ideas will be more
creative and clever, and your increased energy as evidenced in your sparkling
eyes and easy smile will convince management that you are overdue for a
promotion to more responsibility. If you
own a business, people will be drawn to become customers because of the
magnetism of increased confidence, which also manifests in smarter business
decisions.
Reason #5: You will be a kinder, more patient and
understanding parent (with less effort), and all your personal relationships,
including your marriage, will be happier and calmer.
So HOW do you get all these benefits and enjoy all that Me
Time?
Are you ready for the Secret? Take a deep breath, because it’s really,
really powerful
Here it is: Go to the gym, or community center, at least
three days/week, and engage in vigorous movement on the other days.
That’s right, it’s exercise!
I go to the gym to get Me Time to deep-end in imagining new
crochet projects while I walk on the treadmill or use a stationary bike. My clients revel in the guilt-free joys of
reading and taking vicarious trips, including the creative lady who bike-trips
along the Loire. She bikes in place and
can taste all that lovely wine in her imagination! Others enjoy guilt-free video or Facebook
time as they bicycle or treadmill. Gyms
always pipe in catchy, upbeat music to help keep you moving as long as
possible. Home shops can be hives of
vigorous movement as you build and create. Once a week, hubby and I take a water aerobics
class and laugh and giggle together as we leap, jump, and practice-box in the
soothing warm water; after class we laugh and catch up with our friends.
And it’s all guilt-free fun, because you are doing the #1
thing that you need for optimal physical and mental health, a happy life and
successful career.
Are you convinced that you hate exercise? Want
to bet I can’t change your mind? OK,
the deal is on!
Step #1: Sign up for my transformative, fun class here: https://zparkl.com/course/about/transform-your-relationship-with-exercise/.
This class focuses on the most powerful organ in your body –
your mind. It is in your concepts and
beliefs that you turn away from the most powerful Me Time on the planet, with
all the amazing benefits it brings you.
Exercise literally puts money in your pocket as it adds years to your
lifespan. For $19.95, it’s priced to be super-easy
for everyone. So go ahead, sign up!
Step #2: When you have completed the
class, call or email me and book a FREE Getting Unstuck appointment. If you complete my class, I will DOUBLE your free session to a full
hour, and we will get to work demolishing the barriers that are holding you
back from all the fun of the most powerful Me Time ever. That’s my gift and it’s worth a whole lot more than
$19.95. Maybe we can solve your time
problem or blast away your other barriers and hand you your heart’s desire on a
plate in one session. Maybe we will only
get part-way there. The important thing
is – you get a $70 value for only $19.95, even if my class doesn’t do for you
what it has done for everyone else who’s ever taken it.
Are you willing to bet that I can’t make
a Me Time addict out of you? Sign up now
at https://zparkl.com/course/about/transform-your-relationship-with-exercise/.
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