Hold lightly & apply with love.
I am going to preface this list of life tips with the last tip. Please read this as a beginning, an end and an in-between: Hold all of these tips lightly with love rather than duty. Duty is a fun-sucker, love is a fun-creator.
1. Pack lightly. It is tiring to carry too much stuff! I have a rule: one book, one notebook, dry clothes for the kids even on day trips. And socks in winter.
2. Give yourself (and your children or life traveling companions) space and permission to time yourselves out, to separate for quiet and rejuvenation.
3. Write things down, witness your moments & document with photos.
4. Make time for friends at least a couple times a week. Lunches, walks, coffee, swinging on the swingset in the park, painting, giggling, people watching….
5. Create mini-retreats/vacations within your day. Yes, the stuff you call drudgery is capable of being transformed into revelry. Even grocery shopping. Even diaper changing.
6. Forgive others as a way to practice forgiving yourself. Or, forgive yourself as a practice to forgiving others. Forgive.
7. Practice detachment/letting go/surrender… not with a grudging spirit, with a loving spirit.
8. Make eye contact. Let people know you see them. If you worry about “staring people down” practice loosening or lightening your gaze.
9. Be prepared with resources, possibilities and thoughts, don’t be so concerned with stuff. First aid kits and sunscreen rock.... as do cameras and notebooks. That being said...
10. Offer smiles. Offer tears. Hold back advice until asked. Offer Kleenex.
11. Reach out when you need to or even when you don’t.
12. Throw parties. Attend parties. Praise parties.
13. Make writing thank you notes an art form.
14. Always have something to look forward to in the near future and in the slightly distant future.
15. Hold all of these 15 Life Tips (Secrets, Keys, Guideposts) to Your Better Life Journey lightly with love rather than duty. Duty is a fun-sucker, love is a fun-creator.
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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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