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Go to bed early and get up early.  Staying awake while tired will make you feel more tired and irritable the next day. It’s almost never worth it to stay up late watching t.v. or getting extra work done. You’ll be more efficient if you start your day earlier and you won’t have to live with the hangover of being tired from the night before. Start your day off in silence.  No phone, t.v., internet, stressful conversations, etc. Enjoy the quiet of the early morning. Pray, write down your thoughts, read a book. Drink plenty of water. Especially in the morning. Drink two glasses of water upon waking up, before eating anything. Drink a glass of water 30 mins before every meal and 1-hour before bed. If you’re going to drink something with a meal, hot water or tea is better for digestion. Don’t wait too long to get up and start moving around.  After you’re done with your quiet reflection time, go for a walk or do some things around the house. Sweep the floor, put things awa

Most of us don’t like silence, because it forces us to confront ourselves. And sometimes what we find staring back is emptiness. We’re also afraid of silence, because we equate silence with insignificance. We want to be heard and seen. We want to make ourselves relevant. We want tobe somebody in the eyes of others. The desire to make ourselves feel relevant can be very strong. But in our questto be heard and noticed and thought well of by others we often drown out ourinner voice. We’re constantly in search of something we already have. We already have everything we truly need within us. The peace we seek is not out there somewhere. It’s in the here and now, in this moment, within us. If you want to know yourself, turn off the T.V., the radio, the internet and therunning dialogue in your head. Go to a quiet place and spend time alone. This is where you’ll meet yourself. This is where you’ll learn what’s truly important to you. While sitting in silence we can hear and see things we

Seek out positive messages Spend time reading, watching or listening to things that inspire you and give you hope. Don’t settle for fluffy messages though. Keep an eye out for positive but realistic messages. Fluffy messages might make you feel good in the moment, but they’re not your friend in the long-run. They can lead you down the wrong path. Give yourself an outlet Write down your thoughts in a journal. Actually, you don’t even need a journal. You can just grab a piece of paper and write down everything you’re thinking. Then rip it up and throw it in the garbage. At least you’re getting your thoughts out in the open where you can see them. This makes it easier to let them go. Ripping the paper up and throwing it in the garbage is also a way of letting go. Have a candid conversation with someone you trust. Do work that’s import to you. Even if you can only do it on the side. Get involved in something that’s important to you or create something that’s important to you. Th

A new car, a new house, a new job, a new relationship, they seem virtually flawless in the beginning. But as time goes on, we start to see the imperfections. And eventually those imperfections become so glaring, especially in relation to what we think other people have, we think about trading up. The problem is, we’re comparing what we have intimate knowledge of, with things we only know superficially. Often, the grass really does look greener on the other side. And most of the time it’s not. We keep fooling ourselves into thinking that perfection exists somewhere out there. We keep thinking we can trade up. But often we end up with a new set of imperfections that we must learn to tolerate or overlook. How will you know if what you’re trading for is actually better, if the grass merely seems greener? And what happens after we make the trade and realize we were wrong? We’ll either have to admit it to ourselves and try to go back. Though going back usually isn’t an option. Or we can