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Being in-tune with the Life-flow

To be in harmony with the life-flow is a wonderful feeling. Everything in your life seems to work out for you. The people you meet are polite, amazing coincidences happen and what matters the most, you fell great! I aim to be in this life-state as much as I can. Of course there are days where you don’t seem to find this harmony and you have to count to 10 about 1000 times over the day. But fortunately these days are rare.

How do go about being in this wonderful life-state? It probably differs from one person to another but I have marked some signs witch I use to see where I’m at.

The symptoms of being unsynchronized with the flow:

Anxiety or unhappiness over things that “may happen”
Frustration over things aren’t working out as planned or not as fast as you would like
Mind-block
You are vulnerable over your circumstance

These are some of the symptoms I notice when I’m not in tune with the life-flow. When I notice this I look at what I’m doing. Why do I feel this way? Good thing to do here is to stop what you’re doing, stay silent and listen to my inner voice. With those ways I usually get back into the now and find out what’s bothering me. Let’s look at the symptoms of being in harmony with the life-flow.

The symptoms of being in harmony with the life-flow:

The feeling of security about the future
Fail-proof mindset. That is looking at “mistakes” as some to learn from and just something that happens on your way to happiness.
Tranquility
Ideas just keep popping up to your mind

These are the signs I look after in my everyday life, and when I find something that I believe that’s stopping from being in tune with the life-flow, I act on it!

Have a harmonious day!

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What do I need to have a positive attitude?

361b Being positive is a great state of mind. When you have a positive attitude all communication becomes easier, you‘ll be energized and in harmony with life. I think there are three basic factors that can affect your positivity. These factors don’t make you positive but it’s harder to maintain a positive attitude without them.

Good health
Enough money to lead a good life
Courage and will to grow and develop as an individual.

Good health is very important because it can be hard to be positive if your health is in bad shape or some kind of sickness is bothering you. Also you need enough money for living, poverty can easily terminate any positive thinking. Maybe the most important factor is the will and courage to grow as an individual. Where there is will, there is a way!

With that said positivity is something that you can always find even though you have a terminal disease or living on the street. It’s a mindset is that you decide for yourself.

What can help me on my way to positive thinking?

Take responsibility for your life. You and you alone have control over your thinking so stop blaming your negativity on something or somebody else.
Demand positive thinking. When negativity crawls up to you, replace those thoughts with something positive. See the positive side of the situation, there is always a positive side, believe me.
Choose the people you are around. Don’t feed the negativity monster by listening or talking to people who are in a negative mental state. Of course you don’t have to block them from your life, but you can choose to leave or change the conversation if it’s to negative. Surround yourself with positive people, because we become a lot like the people we spend the most time with.
When you read, listen or watch something, look at it as something you eat. What is going into your mind? Is it negative and demolishing or something positive and inspiring?

Being positive is an ongoing battle, but it becomes easier and easier when you practice positive thinking everyday and focus on the bright side of life.

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How to organize your week?

I recently wrote a post called how to organize my day. I wanted to write more about the topic of organizing. Now I’m going to share with you how I organize my week.

It’s much easier to organize your week than your day because usually there are the same wonderful tasks week after week, like laundry, doing the dishes, grocery-shopping etc. That’s why the only thing you really need to do is to put some kind of a frame around these tasks.

There are many benefits of organizing your week. For example, you become much more productive and your mind-clutter is much less because you know what you have to do, and when.

So how do you organize your week?

Write the tasks down. Put down on a piece of paper or on your computer all the tasks you do every week.

Start slowly. Don’t over clutter your week. It’s much better to put fewer task at the beginning and then add more when you get comfortable with the ones you already have.

Give time to every task. Some tasks take more of your time than others. For example, Doing laundry could take the whole day, or maybe two days, if you have a large family. While doing the dishes usually takes about half an hour. But you have to do the dishes more frequently.

Give the task your full attention. When you take on your tasks give them all of your attention, don’t think about the other ones.

Be patient. Give yourself some time to get used to the new routine. It always takes time to get comfortable with new habits.

This is how I organize my week and this ways work just brilliant for me. Although it took some time for me to get into this routine, but when I got there, it was great! It’s so much easier not having to think about the pile of tasks you need to do. They all have their time and place in your week.

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Minor changes, BIG difference

I watched this video from Tony Robbins some days ago. Tony had been playing golf with his golf instructor. To make a long story short, It didn’t go all that well for Tony and he was getting quite frustrated. Tony got pretty mad at the man and blamed him for being a bad instructor.

Then the golf instructor told something to Mr. Robbins, You’re really just a few millimeters from getting good hits. And Tony thought by himself, what a great believe system. When everything is going crazy around you and everything you do seems to be wrong to think; I only a few millimeters off.

I got very inspired watching this video, to have this believe system that when something just isn’t working, instead of giving up, try to think; I’m just a few millimeters off, and then trying to change something a little bit.

Please watch this video and tell me what you think

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Reducing your stress

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Stress is a kind of decease in modern times and no wonder we are so stressed. The pressure related to work has boosted because of increased demand of education among other things. If you don’t follow the rest you’re bound fall of the train. Also we have a higher standard of living and to meet it we have to work more and the time we can spend with our family and friends becomes less and less. We try to make it up by buying stuff like video games, TV’s and DVD or Blue-ray players. Those things cost so we have to work even harder to afford them, which then again means less time for our family.

This circle screams out for stress. It often seems to me that stress is a default setting for the modern human. To be busy and to have a lot to do is often considered a quality in modern communities. In spite of this I like to see the bright side of it. I took together some of the things I do to reduce stress in my life.

Meditate. This is a cornerstone in my life, you can read more on my thoughts on meditation here.

Early rising. When I make it a habit to wake up earlier I feel like I’ve gained some extra time. It’s unbelievable how much you can accomplish when you wake up a little earlier.

Watch your breathing. This is something you can do anytime, anywhere. How am I breathing right now? Is it deep and slow or fast and shallow? Try to take slow and deep breaths whenever you find stress growing inside you.

Organize your day in advance. Read more about organizing here.

Drink less of Coffee and other drinks that include Caffeine. This explains itself.

Practice Yoga. It has good effect on your health, reduces your stress and is helpful to control your breathing.

Live one day at a time. Good sentence that has a deep meaning. Another one is Live and let live, don’t take on the worries and troubles of others.

Learn to say no. This can be a problem for many people. We don’t want to be rude or seem lazy. Know your limits.

Simplify your life. There are countless ways to simplify your life. Here are some of the things I do to simplify my life.

Have wonderful and a stress-free day!

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Being in-tune with the Life-flow

The symptoms of being unsynchronized with the flow:

The symptoms of being in harmony with the life-flow:

What do I need to have a positive attitude?

How to organize your week?

So how do you organize your week?

Minor changes, BIG difference

Reducing your stress

Have wonderful and a stress-free day!

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