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A personal view on Reiki
The Beginning (my first encounter)…. I closed my eyes and lay back on the bed, my body covered in a warm blanket, as the sound of some kind of ethnic music, maybe Chinese, drifted across the room. I felt very warm, comfortable and relaxed, I lay...
Be Like Jane and Learn What It Is To Meditate
Copyright 2005 Paul Bunting
Meditation changes Jane's life in ways she never expected -
starting with the meditation part! Just like many people today,
Jane lived the typical American Life. She endlessly chased the
dream of having the...
Understanding the Yoga Sutras
In the West, there are many who practice Yoga for the physical benefits only. I'll never forget the first-time experience of teaching Yoga in a commercial health club setting.
After practicing asanas and pranayama, I mentioned that we would start...
We Create the Reality
Thoughts become things. Maybe you’ve heard this before. Could it be that we are so powerful that what we think can actually manifest in our environment. Putting out the intent and having it manifest in our lives isn’t anything new actually. Post...
Who Needs Heroes?
When we were talking the other day we started to think about our heroes when we were young. After we had discussed the usual film star and sports stars that we idolised I remembered Derek. Derek was a couple of years ahead of me in school and...
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Why To-Do Lists Don't Work
Do you use to-do lists? Do you find it satisfying to check off the items on that list? Too satisfying perhaps?
More than once I've found myself adding something I've already done to my daily list. I get to check it off then, you see. I get "credit" for all the things I've done. Whatever satisfaction this may give, it's also an indication I'm confusing effectiveness with just being busy.
Do To-Do Lists Help?
Of course it helps to write down meetings and events and necessary tasks. The problem is we sometimes start to work for the list, and then the list may not work well for us. It's easy to feel like you're getting a lot done when you have a list to "prove" it. The question is whether you are getting the important things done.
It seems so reasonable to sort my files again right now. I would feel good to cross that off the list. I have many such things that show up on my to-do lists, giving me plenty of opportunities to avoid more dificult things, like writing this article. This is what I need to be doing, however.
A Better To-Do List
Prioritise your list. You can put the more important things at the
top, or put a mark next to them. Then start doing the important things first every day. If, like myself, you need the satisfaction of crossing off the small things on the list, do those only as a reward - after you do one of the important tasks.
Make sure the most important things get on your lists. That big trip to Nepal you're going to take "someday," may never happen until you break it into steps you can put on your list. In fact, it may be worthwhile to stop list-making altogether, until you clarify what IS important to you.
To break my list-dependency, I put things on my list just so I can ignore them to do more important things. You don't want to just "get busy," do you? If you want to move towards real values, you need to make your to-do lists work for you. Put that on your list for today.
About the Author
Steve Gillman writes on many self help topics including boosting brainpower, losing weight, meditation, habits of mind, creative problem solving, learning gratitude, generating luck and anything related to self improvement. You'll find more at http://www.SelfImprovementNow.com
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