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Solitude.

Posted on July 26, 2008 by admin

Found this good read from The Inspired Room and I got inspired to do some, if not all, from the list. Been busy and stressed lately. I do need some break.

• Make the time for solitude and let some things fall through the cracks.
• Try doing one less blog post per week or read a few less blogs in busy seasons. Blog world will still spin without our constant communication and participation. Your true friends will be there when you return.
• Save up your emails and deal with them all in one sitting to avoid the constant interruptions.
• Get up one half hour earlier to enjoy the quiet of the morning.
• Turn off your phone and computer earlier in the evening. The world can wait until tomorrow.
• If you have children at home, shut the door to your bedroom or bathroom for a short time each day or evening (if your husband is home or your kids are old enough to be alone!) and tell the children mommy is in quiet time.
• Set appointments with yourself to do something different each week with some quiet time. Wander through an art museum, read a book at a new coffee shop, walk through a botanical garden, listen to music and daydream.
• Create a special place for solitude. A clean and inviting bedroom can be a private sanctuary. Put on fresh sheets, pull open a window and a set a bouquet by your bedside.
• Create rituals for your private time and look forward to those experiences. Light candles, journal your thoughts in pretty notebooks, meditate on gratitude, pray.
• Learn to say no without excuses.
• Be selective in how you spend your day, making sure to guard your private time.
• Give yourself permission to live life at a different pace than others around you.
• Make ordinary moments more special. A morning cup of coffee can be a memorable daily ritual if we slow down enough to savor it it solitude.
• Be yourself and live authentically. Trying to impress is a sure fire way to be unbalanced in life.
• Let go of the guilt for things you can’t get to and things you cannot control.