Monday, June 29, 2020
Success Through Failure + #MyPostMonday Linky -The Week's Best Original Content
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Find Sleep Relief With Sleep Cube! Review and Discount Code!
The struggle is real……to get a good night’s sleep, that is! For years, I was the one who could always count on getting enough sleep. I could sleep 12 hours a day if allowed. I wasn’t very empathetic to others who weren’t as fortunate with their sleeping patterns. Sure, there were the few sleepless instances when I was fraught with worry over something, if I was looking forward to an activity that was going to be really fun, or if I had to do something the next day that was really stressful. But those seemed to be few and far in between.
However, it finally caught up. This past year has been terrible for sleep. It has been such a struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep, and get up rested and ready to go through the day. As I lay in bed, tossing and turning at 2am, my mind and body are not in agreement as to what I am supposed to be doing! My mind wants sleep and my body says no! I came to the realization that this is what people were talking about about when they spoke of insomnia. It's definitely NOT a fun gig.
I believe in the occasional sleep
aid, but I don’t want to get dependent on anything whatsoever, but once in
awhile I would allow myself to take something a little stronger than Tylenol
PM.When I did give myself that allowance, I found that I would pay for it
later. I'd get a headache, or I'd be extra groggy and lethargic.
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What I did do, was to start
collecting pillows. There were firm pillows, soft pillows, memory foam pillows,
ridged pillows, small pillows and large pillows. They are all double cased and
they all rest on my bed, but no more than 7 at a time. ('cause that would be
hoarding after that!) The idea is that if I could arrange all the pillows
around me in the perfect way, I would be so well supported and so comfortable
that once I fell asleep, I would stay asleep and not wake up until morning. It
worked (Once in a blue moon)! In the meantime, I could always use the pillows
when I was awake and reading in bed. They certainly make good tablet props,
elbow props, upright head position props, and so on.
Friday, June 12, 2020
Palazzo Pants -- A Summer Must-Have
Monday, June 8, 2020
A New Narrative + #MyPostMonday Linky
Monday, June 1, 2020
What Queen Victoria Taught Us About Ourselves + #MyPostMonday Linky
Monday, May 11, 2020
10 Ways To Tempt Fate Other Than Covid-19 + #MyPostMonday Linky
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Scenic Saturday With Images Along The Way
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
3 Resources That Everyone Has + #MyPostMonday Linky
The problem is this: I find that when the warm weather comes, I start getting really motivated. After the long, dark winter, I have a bijillion things on my To-Do List, all vying for the top spot. And I WANT to do all of them. I make a valiant attempt to accomplish everything. But alas, my day doesn't leave me room for it all. It has always been a rather discouraging prospect. I feel like a hamster in the perpetually turning hamster wheel. And then, I hit bottom. The feeling of failure is so intense.
But I'm the type of person that doesn't like complicated plans and life changes in order to achieve a goal. My life is complicated enough without adding more. But the following idea made me stop and think.
The idea is that everyone has 3 resources at the beginning of each day. No matter who we are, we are given an allotment of time, a certain amount of energy, and an opportunity to focus that time and energy. Everyone has a different amount of each resource. Someone may have much more time than energy, another may have more focus and less time. Someone else has focus to spare, but less time and energy. But no matter which way those three resources are divided, there is a way to get exactly what you want, if you want it badly enough.
One of the nice things about staying home was that I was able to focus on what my priorities outside of work are. When I'm working, a good portion of my daily time, energy and focus are dedicated to my job. When I get home, I have a limited amount of those resources left. It's up to me how I utilize the remainder of them.
An exercise to do is to figure out how much time I have left after work. Next, I need to realistically assess how much energy I have left for the rest of the day. This is where it gets interesting. Some days I have more energy and some days I have less, depending upon what happened at work, how much sleep I got the night before, etc. But the real key is deciding where my focus should be. I really need to prioritize my priorities so that I can match them to my time and energy. It may mean that I'll have to cut out a couple of things each day in order to have energy for the things that are deserving of my top focus. When I have a clear-cut and realistic vision of my time, energy and focus, then I can really move forward! I think that Mr. Noel DeJesus really has a great idea here, and I'd like to learn more about it!
Today is "My Post Monday!", a curation of my picks of the week's best original content. It's all about posts from Crafts to Camping, Wellness to Wealth, Fashion to Food, and whatever else is on the brain! I open up with a post of my own and then follow it up with a linky of the week's top original blog posts! It's all about what the writer thinks, believes, and knows--in other words, they are active, writing blogs. If I happen to find a great original, non-sponsored post, I'll link it up and share it with you here and on Twitter via the #MyPostMonday hashtag! I can miss some amazing posts, but I don't want to! So, in addition, if you'd like to link up yourself, you can do that too! I'll visit your site, comment, promote and publicize(Affiliate links welcome)
Monday, April 27, 2020
How Quarantine Brought An Unexpected Bonus + #MyPostMonday Linky
After some time, I did indeed adapt and something kind of amazing and unexpected came out of it. My husband and I started playing music together! Now, we've both been musical since childhood. But it had kind of been on the back-burner for both of us. I played violin in a university orchestra in college, plus piano, and he had played the guitar, sang and composed since he was a teenager, mentored by his maternal grandparents who used to compose and perform in the Coalinga Horned Toad Derby Days and Daffodil Days both in California. But our instruments were badly in need of repair and we hadn't played them in years. Life had gotten in the way! Several months before things went to quarantine, we both got new instruments! I got a new violin and he got a new PRS guitar!
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
The Measure Of Your Creation [Book Review]
This is just one of the truths shared by a remarkable woman with a rather common name!