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 10 ways to add more variety to your morning routine. It’s easy to lose a sense of joy and excitement when life gets repetitive. As much as I love routines, I know I need to switch things up to prevent boredom and lack of motivation. After all, variety in life is important for  avoiding a burnout. In this post, I’m sharing 10 tips to help you get out of a funk and add variety to your routine. Keep reading if you’re looking to switch things up! How To Add Variety To Your Routine Sometimes you have to accept that life is moving more slowly than anticipated, but that doesn’t mean you can’t add some variety at the same time. Life is about tiny little daily joys. Whenever life starts to feel a little stale or boring, here are some tips to help switch things up: 1. Create something without an agenda  Do something for the sake of fun and creativity, rather than for the sake of productivity e.g. paint, knit, doodle, start a bullet journal.  2. Create something WITH an agenda...

Moving on to positive thoughts  Cognitive behavioural therapy known as CBT techniques- identifying, replacing negative thoughts- have been found to be very effective in helping people to think more positively. Acceptance and commitment recognises that when you accept and let go of the negative, unhelpful thoughts, you will let go of the emotions and allow the rational, logical part of your mind start working. - To start thinking more helpful positive thoughts regularly. Instead of getting caught up with your thoughts and struggle with them, just notice them and let them go. Imagine you’re a sheriff in an old western town. You notice an outlaw strolling the street. You don’t challenge him, you simply acknowledge the outlaw and calmly and firmly encourage him to keep walking, right on out of town. You can do the same with negative thoughts those unhelpful thoughts, you simply acknowledge and release them. Instead of challenging the negative thoughts. If they came back you look at the...

What to do when feeling unmotivated Let yourself go through the feeling of being negative for a short time but use CBT cognitive behavioural therapy and then go slowly into being productive by using habits stacking to be motivated to do anything. Don’t be hard on yourself this is common to experience. Often I have these crap days and need to find motivation. Check out my video on the subject. I use an app to help me get motivated when I’m struggling. The app I use currently- google tasks what do you use to help your productivity? I been reading  Atomic Habits by James Clear We all go through a phase of being unmotivated to do the things we set out to do. Tick them off and celebrate that you done it. That means reward yourself. Of course depression doesn’t help as I can speak from experience. One of the simplest ways I’ve learned how to deal with procrastination is to consider how my choices today will affect my future self. In this process be kind to yourself it is too easy to bea...

Life changing magic of affirmations  I don’t know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the line, I decided to believe that I was unworthy.    To be honest, I could point to a few different times in my life when that happened, but truthfully we don’t need to go back there and rehash that stuff…unless you pour me some Wine, and then I’m an open book .  And when I get my hands on you, you will be too 😉    But in any case, there were these tricky times that led me to believe that I was unworthy.    I was unworthy of success, unworthy of truly being loved, unworthy of being heard, unworthy of being my true self, the list goes on…    And the only way I figured this out was because I kept finding myself in situations where I wondered how the heck I got there…it was like waking up from a bad dream where you settled for things that you would never imagine yourself settling for.    Like the things that you would condemn a ...

Surrendering should be seen as a great strength and comes when we let go of trying to attain the impossible. Most of us were raised and live in a culture that emphasizes the ideals of independence and control. The general idea is that we are on our own and we don't need any help from anyone else, and if we are really successful it's because we are in complete control. However, true lasting success comes only with surrendering, which is the opposite of control. We cannot accomplish anything truly great on our own, without any help, and the idea that we can is an illusion that causes most of us a great deal of suffering. Surrender comes when we see that illusion and let go of trying to attain the impossible. Surrender can then be seen as a great strength rather than a weakness. This can apply during covid-19 pandemic.  Even small moments of surrender are powerful indicators of how different our lives could be if we would only let go. Our energy shifts we are in more positive stat...

Building self confidence   As you can see this video was inspiring and I wanted to share this with you all. Self confidence is what we all seek and I give you some advice on how to do it.  Below I explain in a podcast what CBT cognitive behavioral therapy is and how to use it.    Below is a CBT approach that you can adapt, if needed: Begin by completing a chart (daily) with column headings: Situation , Self-Critical Thoughts , Consequences ( feelings & behaviors ), and Rational Responses. Here is an example of how you might fill this out: Situation :   Alice won when we played tennis, and (like always) she went on about how she's better than me. Self-Critical Thoughts :   She's right; I'm such a loser. I'm no good at tennis or anything. Consequences ( feelings & behaviors ):   I feel angry with myself and want to withdraw from the world. When I play tennis, all I can do is think about how bad I am at it, which makes me feel worse and play...

Staying motivated is not easy but there is a way to get motivated and make sure your energy around you is cleansed and it will help you feel less heavy. I like to use plao Santo stick to cleanse myself and my home or office space. I myself can get unmotivated, of course winter is the unpleasant time of the year for it.  I guess the covid-19 situation has made our motivation a lot harder to do. Watch a video from a ted talk very interesting.    Here I share another video on finding motivation trust me I know from my own experience.  Honestly it is hard if you make it difficult for your journey, even I have my days and no one really likes rainy days So I do my best regardless even if I wear comfortable clothing, so be it!  However you do it make sure it motivates you. This is why listening to motivational speeches on YouTube are helpful to be inspired even if you watched a video of your favourite YouTuber. Below are motivational speeches to get you up and going! There are plenty of these...