When you engage fully in each day, you really start living: purposeful in activities, attentive to people and walking into your future with your eyes wide open. When you simplify your routines, you will have more time to do the things you want to do.

 

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Here are two important questions to answer:

1. When do I feel most alive in my week, what am I doing, where am I and who am I with?
   
2. Is there anything I'd rather be doing, or is this as good as it gets?

Begin living today by starting with a dream affecting something in your everyday life. Then dream for bigger things beyond your local sphere. Write your dream down. Tweak the wording. Read it often. And start envisioning yourself feeling fully alive in the midst of your dream.

 

Once you expand your thinking, you can change your life by changing your time. Simplify the time you spend on routines and multiply the time you spend with people. Divide your free time between yourself and others, while subtracting the less important tasks to accomplish more. Today is the day to do the things you need and want to do. 

 

Excerpted and adapted from Marcia Ramsland's: Simplify Your Time: Stop Running & Start Living! ©2006, W. Publishing Group, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee. All rights reserved. Copying or using this material without written permission from the publisher is strictly prohibited and in direct violation of copyright law.

 

 

About Marcia Ramsland

Marcia Ramsland is well known as "The Organizing Pro" for her practical skills and tips to manage busy lives. As a national speaker, author and consultant since 1985, Marcia delights her audiences from New York to California with tips and secrets to organize their time, home, paperwork and life. Her tips have been in Woman’s Day and other national magazines, radio interviews and TV. She can be reached through her Web site www.OrganizingPro.com, and her books can be ordered there.