Make Time for Yourself E-Book

50MINUTES

• Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Serie: Health & Wellbeing
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 35

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about making time for yourself with this straightforward guide.

In our hectic 21st-century lives, it often seems that we can never find any time for ourselves. Between work, responsibilities, friends and housework, you may think that you simply cannot afford the time to unwind and relax. Do not fall into this trap! This guide will show not only why you need to take a break every once in a while, but also how this will have a positive effect on your productivity.

In just 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand the effects of trying to cram too much into one day
• Learn how lack of organisation can affect your priorities and objectives
• Put your own wellbeing before that of others when necessary

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Make time for yourself

Problem: between work, friends, family, grocery shopping and cooking, trying to fit everything into our hectic modern lives is not easy. But where does our precious time go? How can we reconnect with what we really want and need?Aims: to become aware of how to take care of yourself and your time and learn to manage your life more calmly with the help of a few simple tricks. FAQs: What does making time for yourself mean? Why is it so difficult to make time for myself? How can I allow myself to put my own wellbeing before that of others every now and then ?How can I differentiate between what is good for me and what holds me back? How can I organise myself and give myself the time I need to feel calm in my everyday life? How can I stay in touch with who I really am?

Do you give yourself some alone time every now and then, a time for you to recharge your batteries and listen to yourself? Do you see life as a succession of happy events or a mountain of responsibilities you have to face up to?

When you want to harmonise your career with your family life, your social life with your exercise regime, or your artistic life with your beliefs, you may not really know what to do. The desire to match up to a certain image or find fulfilment while still carrying out our duties pushes us to accept situations in which we no longer respect who we really are. We forget to take care of our bodies and ignore our mental health. We may sometimes even feel like robots. Once we become prisoners of this system, we lose sight of the doors to freedom.

Although life is precious, it can exhaust us just as easily as it can invigorate us. Everything depends on how we live and how we manage our relationships with others, our environment and ourselves. Becoming aware of how we organise our days, our activities and our moments of rest is the first step. The second is to learn to listen to our greatest needs and desires. Although this requires a little imagination, organisation or even a certain ability to let go, it is possible to make time for yourself in order to live a balanced, fulfilling life. We only have one life – it would be a shame to waste it!

Why is it difficult to make time for yourself?

The 21st-century illness – lack of time

In the past, our ancestors lived according to the rhythm of the seasons and nature. Nowadays, ever since the Industrial Revolution, machines facilitate our manual, household and administrative work. However, our quality of life does not really seem to have improved. Caught in a vicious circle, we no longer have the time to stop to take a breath, or even to live our lives! We feel caught up in an eternal whirlwind, in a world where everything goes too fast.

Consequently, it is more and more difficult for us to catch our breath in a society in which we have to take on more and more demands, information and requests. The media overwhelm us on a daily basis with images, each more depressing than the last. The future does not look promising, with unemployment, violence and environmental problems all on the rise. However, as Marcelle Auclair (French author, 1899-1983) states in Le Livre du bonheur (“The Book of Happiness”), joy, love and happiness truly do exist. It is up to us to decide whether we want to focus on the misery in the world or, on the contrary, to adopt a positive view of life. However, is it possible that we still do not have all the keys to unlock the door to happiness?