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Greetings from sunny Colorado! Happy summer! Welcome back to Sip of Soup, my free monthly eSip offering a taste of insight and lessons to help you keep caring for yourself while caring for others.
Positively Yours,
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Positivity Power
As kids...and some grownups... head back to school and routines change again, I hear people saying, "Now I'll have time for_____." (Fill in the blank.)
Lack of enough time is said to be the number one stressor for people. How is it possible that with so much technology and so many time-saving devices at our fingertips, we often feel more stressed, more overwhelmed, less in control and less able to get it all done? We have lots of gadgets, appliances and technologies to help our tasks go more quickly, promising that then we'll have time to do the things we love. But, do we? Or are we going faster and faster and faster, and farther and farther and farther away from priorities?
Time is the only thing every person in the world has the same amount of. How we use it is our decision.
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Lessons from LeAnn
Chart your time. Draw a big circle on a piece of paper to represent your 24 hour day. On this pie chart, section off the amount of time you sleep. (Hopefully, this will be about 1/3 of the circle and you are sleeping 7-8 hours.) Now pencil off sections according to how you spend the rest of the hours of your day. Working. Driving. Eating. Exercising. Praying. Spending time with family. Watching TV. Email. Internet. Relaxing. Household chores.
How much time are you devoting to your priorities?
Study this chart carefully, prayerfully. This is the life you have created. Are there things you'd like to change? Make another pie chart, graphing the life you want to lead. Post it where you can see it. Visualize it. Change it. It's your life.
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Sip du Jour
A Healthy Quote:
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To learn more about managing your time and creating the life you want to live, explore LeAnn's new initiative, SelfCare for HealthCare: Your Guide to Physical, Spiritual and Mental Health.
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About LeAnn Thieman
Best-Selling Author, Hall of Fame Speaker, and Nurse.
Co-Author: Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, and 10 other Chicken Soup for the Soul titles. Her book Balancing Life in Your "War Zones" shares lessons from her Vietnam Orphan Airlift adventure. Her latest book and initiative is SelfCare for HealthCare™
: Your Guide to Physical, Mental & Spiritual Health.
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For tips and tools for balancing your life physically, mentally, and spiritually, see past issues of the "Sip of Soup" by clicking here:
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