I thought I had seen the last of the cough, yet last night I slept very little and today I am coughing so much it's choking me.
A friend of mine sent me this ........
Losing my Sleep Week beginning 9th December 2007
I have a daily routine that I pretty much keep to, and it goes very much like this - I wake up every week day at about 6am. I do the usually washing up stuff and then I spend a few minutes making sure my girls are ok. I will usually leave the house at about 7.40am and on a good day I am in the office at 8.45 or there about. I am one of those who does not believe in staying late in the office, which means that at about 5.10pm at the latest I will be on my way home. I get in at around 6pm, spend about 5 minutes with the girls and then I go to our bedroom, switch on the TV and dose off for about an hour. I love my hour of sleep, it's my time to get refreshed, it's my time to get revitalised - it's my 'me' time. The best bit of the day is when the missus gets back from work. She is such a good wife, because the first thing she does is the cooking. And to top it all up, one of my daughters will bring me my dinner and a can of coke while I am in bed.
Lucky me!
But disaster soon struck - my wife went away on a weeks' tip to the States. This meant that my usual routine had to take a bit of a detour. Rather than get back from work, dive into bed and have my 'power sleep' followed by my dinner - I now had to do the cooking, feed the girls and help them with their home work. The hardest part of my week was putting the kids to bed. I will try everything possible, but they just decided to make my life a bit difficult. Every bedtime was a battle with tempers flying all over the place - ok; I take that back - it was just my temper doing the rounds. The consequence of my rather challenging week was that I found it exceptionally difficult to do my usual evening functions. I would hold the game pad of the Playstation console and find myself dozing off.
I cherish my hour in bed when I get back from work. It is so convenient for me to have an hour of rest in preparedness for my late nights - however the absence of my wife meant that I had to let go of my usual luxury for the sake of the children. Rather than getting back and do the usual thing, I had to sit in front of the TV and watch some cartoon characters running around and I had to pretend I that I understood the plot; or watch some teenage girl trying to be cool. For me, that was some sacrifice - it really was. My commitment to my family meant I had to sacrifice my 'me' time for a whole week.
One of the greatest hindrances that tend to put a hold on us and prevent us from getting the simplest of things done is convenience.
One of the reasons why we find it easy to carry out the same activity over and over again with no intention of changing the status quo is because we find such activities rather convenient. The reoccurrence of the same activity will however produce the same outcome over again at the very best. If you want to create a different outcome from what you have been producing all this while, then you might just have to do something a bit differently, and doing something differently will usually mean letting go of some of the convenience in your life, and you can only 'voluntarily' let go of some of your convenience in your life when you are truly committed to doing something unique for yourself.
So, what do you want to achieve in the next 12 months for instance? Will you be able to achieve whatever you have decided to achieve by doing exactly what you did in the last 12 months? If not, which should be the ideal case; what would you need to do differently? What would you have to sacrifice to enable you achieve your target, or better put, which of your current conveniences would you have to sacrifice? There is always a sacrifice to be made - nothing just happens. Once you are prepared to 'let go' of one of those things that have prevented you from getting the job done, then you are on your way to achieving the achievable.
The battle between convenience and commitment!
A lot of truth in that!
A friend of mine sent me this ........
Losing my Sleep Week beginning 9th December 2007
I have a daily routine that I pretty much keep to, and it goes very much like this - I wake up every week day at about 6am. I do the usually washing up stuff and then I spend a few minutes making sure my girls are ok. I will usually leave the house at about 7.40am and on a good day I am in the office at 8.45 or there about. I am one of those who does not believe in staying late in the office, which means that at about 5.10pm at the latest I will be on my way home. I get in at around 6pm, spend about 5 minutes with the girls and then I go to our bedroom, switch on the TV and dose off for about an hour. I love my hour of sleep, it's my time to get refreshed, it's my time to get revitalised - it's my 'me' time. The best bit of the day is when the missus gets back from work. She is such a good wife, because the first thing she does is the cooking. And to top it all up, one of my daughters will bring me my dinner and a can of coke while I am in bed.
Lucky me!
But disaster soon struck - my wife went away on a weeks' tip to the States. This meant that my usual routine had to take a bit of a detour. Rather than get back from work, dive into bed and have my 'power sleep' followed by my dinner - I now had to do the cooking, feed the girls and help them with their home work. The hardest part of my week was putting the kids to bed. I will try everything possible, but they just decided to make my life a bit difficult. Every bedtime was a battle with tempers flying all over the place - ok; I take that back - it was just my temper doing the rounds. The consequence of my rather challenging week was that I found it exceptionally difficult to do my usual evening functions. I would hold the game pad of the Playstation console and find myself dozing off.
I cherish my hour in bed when I get back from work. It is so convenient for me to have an hour of rest in preparedness for my late nights - however the absence of my wife meant that I had to let go of my usual luxury for the sake of the children. Rather than getting back and do the usual thing, I had to sit in front of the TV and watch some cartoon characters running around and I had to pretend I that I understood the plot; or watch some teenage girl trying to be cool. For me, that was some sacrifice - it really was. My commitment to my family meant I had to sacrifice my 'me' time for a whole week.
One of the greatest hindrances that tend to put a hold on us and prevent us from getting the simplest of things done is convenience.
One of the reasons why we find it easy to carry out the same activity over and over again with no intention of changing the status quo is because we find such activities rather convenient. The reoccurrence of the same activity will however produce the same outcome over again at the very best. If you want to create a different outcome from what you have been producing all this while, then you might just have to do something a bit differently, and doing something differently will usually mean letting go of some of the convenience in your life, and you can only 'voluntarily' let go of some of your convenience in your life when you are truly committed to doing something unique for yourself.
So, what do you want to achieve in the next 12 months for instance? Will you be able to achieve whatever you have decided to achieve by doing exactly what you did in the last 12 months? If not, which should be the ideal case; what would you need to do differently? What would you have to sacrifice to enable you achieve your target, or better put, which of your current conveniences would you have to sacrifice? There is always a sacrifice to be made - nothing just happens. Once you are prepared to 'let go' of one of those things that have prevented you from getting the job done, then you are on your way to achieving the achievable.
The battle between convenience and commitment!
A lot of truth in that!
Leaves alot more time for sleeping!
Hope your cough goes away!
Hope you get to feeling better dude!
Be EZ