Thursday, Sep 30, 2010How To Energize Your Life

There will always be moments in your life where you simply cannot do the same thing in the same way without either boredom or frustration. You need to energize your life by finding new ways to keep yourself amused by spicing up what you’re doing. It may take stepping away from your norm. Let’s take a look at some boredom cures and cool new ways to get things done.

Energize Your Life At Work:

1. Dress differently. If you generally dress in corporate casual style, keep your jacket on all week. Your friends might think you are bucking for a promotion, and who knows, maybe your boss will think that as well.

2. Get there a half hour early and make coffee for the crew. That’s also a good time to organize your day’s work.

3. Choose someone you’ve never had lunch with every day for one week and make new friends.

4. Ask your boss what you can do better or what you can help her with.

Boredom Cures At Home:

1. Whatever your normal routine is, scramble it. Brush your teeth with the other hand. Exercise before dinner. Say grace after the meal. Get your kids involved with a topsy-turvy experience. They’ll love it too.

2. If you have a tendency toward messiness, try clean and tidy for a while. If you’re too tidy, let yourself be a bit messier.

3. Re-decorate the living room with accessories from your other rooms. Give yourself a small budget to buy new accessories or to paint the room a different color.

4. Drape colorful scarves (the ones you seldom wear) over your lamps and bedposts.

5. Eat meals an hour earlier or later. Now what can you do with that extra time?

In the Car:

1. Decide you want to learn something new every day on the way to work. Look for the lesson on bumper stickers and billboards.

2. Make up a mantra-of-the-day for some change you’d like in your life and chant it to and from work until it manifests in your life.

3. Smile at the driver to your left or right at every stop sign. Nod your head to say “hello.”

4. Wear play glasses with a plastic nose every time you pass a school bus. The children will love it.

5. Drive the speed limit and notice that it’s not too slow. You’ll be amazed how many will speed by you.

On a Date:

1. Buy a new perfume or fragrance to wear – something fresh, and “not you.”

2. If you’re generally chatty, be more silent and let your date do most of the talking.

3. Trust your instincts 100%. Don’t override them.

4. Look for red flags that say “This individual isn’t right for me.”

In Bed:

1. Try sleeping in the center of the bed.

2. If you don’t normally make your bed upon arising, make it.

3. Treat yourself to new sheets or pillows.

4. Do you like your headboard? How can you change it?

Boredom Cures For a Crowd:

1. Make a new friend upon each occasion. Learn something about that other person.

2. Smile and make eye contact.

3. Do two isometric exercises to tone your muscles.

4. Look for someone who looks like your mother and go talk with her.

Spicing Up With Mother Nature:

1. Breathe in deeply and smell the air.

2. Look for different species of birds.

3. How many trees can you name?

4. Look up the word “soughing” and then go listen for it.

These are just a few examples of boredom cures. I’m sure you can think of other ways of spicing up your environment and learn how to energize your life.

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

“Enjoying a more adventurous existence only requires learning how to look past the seemingly ordinary.” ~ David Silberkleit