Archive for the 'Quality of Life' Category

How to let go of things that do you no good

July 27, 2010 in Bootstrap: Step 2, Career, Frugal, Home life, Quality of Life, Work, happiness, organisation
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Okay, hands up who has a pile of magazines they will never read? And who has a stack of clothes they never wear? Who has friends or family who make them feel awful? And who dreads going to their job? I bet most people would have felt the need to raise your hand to at [...]

Take charge of your life NOW!

March 10, 2008 in Bootstrap: Step 1, Bootstrap: Step 2, Bootstrap: Step 3, Quality of Life
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Are you drifting along doing jobs you merely like? Are you settling for a relationship that isn’t what you dreamed of? Why are you doing that? You need to be in charge of your own life because if you leave the direction of your life to other people it will never be what you really [...]

So, how exactly do you stop procrastinating?

March 9, 2008 in Bootstrap: Step 1, Bootstrap: Step 2, Quality of Life
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How do you get off your arse and just do something? It seems the more important the task the harder it is to start. This is because of fear. The people who relentlessly get stuck into massive projects do this because they know the fear can be controlled. “He who deliberates fully before taking a [...]

How to Avoid TV

March 9, 2008 in Bootstrap: Step 1, Bootstrap: Step 4, Quality of Life, happiness

I don’t understand why so many people come home from work and plonk themselves down in front of the TV. I understand that we live in a stressful world and that we come home exhausted and wanting to relax. But the tv isn’t going to fix that. You might even zone out for a while [...]