FOLLOW BABY - P E A C E
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MYBjamz: “Follow Baby,” Peace.

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2 months ago
MOTIVATION: needs. “I run because it keeps me sane.” Putting everyone else’s needs before your own is a common practice in our culture. But becoming a martyr isn’t the answer when you cut out what YOU need first. Do everyone a favor. Don’t feel guilty when you need to say no to plans or take a break from something so that you can have some time to heal yourself. If you need that run, cycling class, walk in the park, yoga class…take the time to do it and make it a priority. You’re giving everyone else the gift of a better YOU by doing that for yourself. Do what YOU NEED to keep sane. via runnnninghigh

MOTIVATION: needs.

“I run because it keeps me sane.”

Putting everyone else’s needs before your own is a common practice in our culture. But becoming a martyr isn’t the answer when you cut out what YOU need first. Do everyone a favor. Don’t feel guilty when you need to say no to plans or take a break from something so that you can have some time to heal yourself. If you need that run, cycling class, walk in the park, yoga class…take the time to do it and make it a priority. You’re giving everyone else the gift of a better YOU by doing that for yourself. Do what YOU NEED to keep sane.


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2 months ago
MOTIVATION: balancing WORK and WELLNESS. If your go-to answer to the question, “How are you?” includes the word “BUSY!” you’re…well, you’re just like me. I can wake up at the crack of dawn, get my morning run in and then sit at my desk literally until 10pm at night. It’s insane! And can run you ragged from the inside out. A helpful article for us worker bees. (via MINDBODYGREEN:) 4 Tips for Balancing Work & Wellness 1) Prioritize. Create lists daily according to higher and lower priority. High priority means they must be done today. Let the lower priority items go. Don’t rush to accomplish them all — accept that the to-do list will never be completely done. Also, don’t set yourself up for disappointment by being unrealistic about how much you can accomplish on your high priority list.  2) Set Boundaries. If your high priority list is consistently too long, you may need to examine other alternatives, in conjunction with co-workers or supervisors. This could involve delegation, cooperation with team members, and streamlining or eliminating cumbersome processes. Overextending yourself leads to burnout. You may be able to get it all done this week, this month, or this year, but you must find a sustainable pace for the long term. Just as heavy manual labourers must look after themselves physically and pace their work to avoid debilitating injuries, we must use our mental, physical, and emotional energy wisely and invest in our long-term health. Click thru for tips 3 & 4  I mean, if you’re not too busy of course ;)

MOTIVATION: balancing WORK and WELLNESS.

If your go-to answer to the question, “How are you?” includes the word “BUSY!” you’re…well, you’re just like me. I can wake up at the crack of dawn, get my morning run in and then sit at my desk literally until 10pm at night. It’s insane! And can run you ragged from the inside out. A helpful article for us worker bees.

(via MINDBODYGREEN:)

4 Tips for Balancing Work & Wellness

1) Prioritize. Create lists daily according to higher and lower priority. High priority means they must be done today. Let the lower priority items go. Don’t rush to accomplish them all — accept that the to-do list will never be completely done. Also, don’t set yourself up for disappointment by being unrealistic about how much you can accomplish on your high priority list. 
2) Set Boundaries. If your high priority list is consistently too long, you may need to examine other alternatives, in conjunction with co-workers or supervisors. This could involve delegation, cooperation with team members, and streamlining or eliminating cumbersome processes. Overextending yourself leads to burnout. You may be able to get it all done this week, this month, or this year, but you must find a sustainable pace for the long term. Just as heavy manual labourers must look after themselves physically and pace their work to avoid debilitating injuries, we must use our mental, physical, and emotional energy wisely and invest in our long-term health.
Click thru for tips 3 & 4 
I mean, if you’re not too busy of course ;)
4 months ago
MOTIVATION: urban meditation. On a quest to find peace amidst the madness, I went with a few friends to the temporary Guggenheim location on 2nd Ave. and Houston for a Saturday morning lecture and meditation session. I always thought in order to meditate, you had to clear the mind. They say that in yoga. For me, it’s nearly impossible to stop and clear the mind. So I always thought meditation wasn’t my speed. Turns out no one can clear the mind. Women have 80,000 thoughts a day (men have 60,000). It’s not about clearing the mind - it’s about accepting those thoughts as they come and not judging them. Just see what comes up - instead of taxing your whole system questioning, “Why am I thinking this? What’s wrong with me? I shouldn’t be this or that.” Instead, welcome those thoughts. Then welcome a few more. And more. Continue to move a bit further and deeper in. And sit there. Accepting. Breathing. Our lives are endless cycles of busy-ness and organization and anxiety and expectations and rushing and regret - highs and lows. The deeper our roots grow down and ground us, the less easily we are thwarted when the wind picks up. All this can sound cheesy. But let’s face it - we’re a society exhausted and chronically tired and overextended, am I right? So taking a few moments to look inward and find a little peace—whether it’s meditation, working out, taking a walk, putting down the tv remote or laptop — we’ll all be the better for it. As will our daily lives and the people in it. We spend endless hours looking around at our surroundings, our current selves, the past, at our relationships, jobs, friends and cities we live in, looking for answers. Perhaps those answers are inside ourselves. Yet rarely do we take that moment to look inwards. It’s not selfish. It’s necessary. High-res

MOTIVATION: urban meditation.

On a quest to find peace amidst the madness, I went with a few friends to the temporary Guggenheim location on 2nd Ave. and Houston for a Saturday morning lecture and meditation session.

I always thought in order to meditate, you had to clear the mind. They say that in yoga. For me, it’s nearly impossible to stop and clear the mind. So I always thought meditation wasn’t my speed. Turns out no one can clear the mind. Women have 80,000 thoughts a day (men have 60,000). It’s not about clearing the mind - it’s about accepting those thoughts as they come and not judging them. Just see what comes up - instead of taxing your whole system questioning, “Why am
I thinking this? What’s wrong with me? I shouldn’t be this or that.” Instead, welcome those thoughts. Then welcome a few more. And more. Continue to move a bit further and deeper in. And sit there. Accepting. Breathing.

Our lives are endless cycles of busy-ness and organization and anxiety and expectations and rushing and regret - highs and lows. The deeper our roots grow down and ground us, the less easily we are thwarted when the wind picks up.

All this can sound cheesy. But let’s face it - we’re a society exhausted and chronically tired and overextended, am I right? So taking a few moments to look inward and find a little peace—whether it’s meditation, working out, taking a walk, putting down the tv remote or laptop — we’ll all be the better for it. As will our daily lives and the people in it.

We spend endless hours looking around at our surroundings, our current selves, the past, at our relationships, jobs, friends and cities we live in, looking for answers. Perhaps those answers are inside ourselves. Yet rarely do we take that moment to look inwards. It’s not selfish. It’s necessary.

8 months ago