TCOY 1 Minute Focus

The well-known concept of doing something consistently for 30 days to change/improve your life is worthwhile. However, there's a lot of life to live within those 30 days and it does tend to get in the way of our grand plans. Sometimes we just don't have 30 days to put consistently towards making a change in our life. Or, possibly, it's just not in our nature for that method to work.

When broken down even smaller, it still may not be possible to make positive changes happen. At the beginning of each week, those 7 days seem so promising but tend to fall short. Too often, 24 hours have passed without time for ourselves being put on the schedule. And, to regularly have 60 minutes for us and us alone would be awesome, but it doesn't tend to happen all the time.

That's why the 1 minute focus is a must for everyone, every day. It's fast. It's time for you (who doesn't love that?) Plus, the power you gain from it is amazing!

For instance:

• Have a short attention span...learn to lengthen it to 60 seconds. At the moment of your 1 minute focus, think only about the most recent positive thought, event or person encountered. Hold it, hold it...no, no thinking about the errand after work...just hold that one thought.

• Feel like your mind is constantly running...zero in on a single thought, allowing no other to take hold and give yourself a mini-break, or a mind reboot if you will.

• If you can't find time to do something for yourself, use that time to think about yourself...such as good thoughts about who you are, about something recently accomplished, restarting your day if it didn't start off well, etc.

• Do what you enjoy...read a bible verse or favorite quote, think of your family or pull weeds from the flowers in your garden, if that's what you enjoy.

• Make it a time to focus on your body...apply lotion, stretch, drink a cup of water, or even apply mascara and lip gloss if you want your outsides to look as good as your insides feel!

• If you're at a loss for what to do for your 1 minute focus, spend the time thinking about what would be worth doing for your next 1 minute focus. ;-)

Regardless of whether you change it up or do the same thing each day, find the time for a 1 minute focus each and every day. Taking care of you is important and every minute of your life is an opportunity for doing it!

Thanks to my friend at Just Lisa, No Filler for helping me craft this fabulous contribution to my life.

Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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Follow TCOY to Inspired to Write

Today, I’m excited to be a guest blogger at Inspired to Write. While Julie is away for two weeks on a mission trip in Croatia, please enjoy the guest posts she has lined up to inspire you.

My guest post is about adapting the 27-17-7 method of decluttering to free yourself to write. You didn't realize the method could be adapted? Oh, yes indeed, it can. Take a look over at Inspired to Write and see for yourself. Please leave a comment and let me know how I did on my very first guest post! I’d greatly appreciate it.

To those arriving here via Inspired to Write, please take a look around Taking Care Of You. I'm sure you will find inspiration to help you grow your inner awareness and focus on Taking Care Of You. Since TCOY is only 2 months young, be sure to subscribe via email or RSS (see right side of this page) to receive free updates of new posts at TCOYou.com.

Below are posts especially chosen for my new visitors. They will let you now more about Taking Care Of You...and why no one else can do it better.

Taking Care Of You (TCOY)
Quality Relationships (I Will Be Someone For You)
TCOY Check-Up

Again, thanks so much to Julie at Inspired to Write for allowing me to be a guest blogger and for providing much needed inspiration to us all!

Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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Here's my 411

Four Important Things to Know About Me

Current location: (born and raised in) California, USA
Married and/or have children? married with 2 children
Have siblings? How many of each are older and younger? one older step-sister, one younger brother and one younger half-sister
Right handed or left handed: right-handed

Eleven Other Things You Might Like to Know

My best quality: I don't judge others
Kind of car I drive: compact SUV
A personal weakness: I talk too fast
Goal I am working on achieving this year: developing a spending plan
Country I most want to visit: Italy
Prefer many friends or close few?: close few
Color of clothing I wear most: deep red
Close to parents/siblings? yes
Sing in public? yes (in my car or while playing "Rock Band")
Have a tattoo? If so, of what & how many? none
Laughed until a beverage came out of my nose? yep...in fact, it seems to be a goal of my friends and siblings :-)

Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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Introducing: the Fearless Living Series

It is said that the opposite of fear is love. As long as fear hinders or motivates you, Taking Care Of You will not be a priority in your life.

To me...
Love is secure. Fear is anxious.
Love is accepting. Fear is rejecting.
Love is receptive. Fear is close-minded.

Fear has its place in life, however, it is you who allows it to have the power it does or not have. For the most part, fearless people do know and feel fear. However, they do not give their power over to the fear. Instead, the fear is a catalyst that prompts action.

From Zen Habits:

"When you take action on a problem, it’s not so bad — it’s just a series of steps you need to take to solve the problem. You aren’t paralyzed anymore when you start to take action...The plan will kill the fear. It is taking something that is scary and unknown, and turning it into something concrete, solvable, doable."

This is a great post that presented the issue of fears lurking in our mind AND what to do about it. Love that.

It also illustrates the philosophy I believe in. I've begun to recite Leo's words, "The plan will kill the fear", when trying to sell the concept of continuing to move forward, even if fearful, to myself and to others.

In upcoming posts called the "Fearless Living Series", I'll spotlight areas of our life where fear may be holding us back and outline possible plans to use in squelching that fear.

Fear is such a life drainer. Take your power back and experience Taking Care Of You through fearless living.

Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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Quote To Reflect Upon (Jun09)

As you think, so shall you become.
- Bruce Lee

Until next time...Take Care Of You!

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