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Last week, I wrote about my birthday and how I had been thinking about the time I had left available to me. I published that post on Sunday. I woke up on Monday feeling very unwell (flu ?), spend most of the week in bed and have not been out of the house since last Sunday ! Not the sort of start I wanted for my year. What happened ?

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I feel a bit embarrassed about this really - as if I brought this illness on myself as a result of what I wrote last week. At one time during the week, I thought my estimate of living till 85 was wildly exaggerated !

My reflections this week are about why I got ill and what positive lessons I can take from this experience.

Enjoying My Work

I am someone who enjoys their work which, of course, is great. You will know, if you are a regular reader, that I design and build web sites for clients through my AttractMore Web Design business, I am a practising homeopath, I teach homeopathy and am a director of a homeopathy college. None of these occupations pays me a fixed salary, rather, I get paid for what I do.

The danger with this way of working coupled with the fact that I enjoy doing it all, means that I can end up working more hours that would normally be regarded as sensible. I’ve always felt this was OK because I was enjoying doing it. Continue Reading »

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It was my birthday yesterday. Earlier today I was thinking about the time I have spent on this planet and the time that I have left here to do the things I want to do.

Yep, it was my birthday yesterday. 52 years and counting. I had a good day and we went out for a fantastic meal last night. I don’t really like the idea of my birthday much - perhaps it reminds me of my mortality. I know it’s just another day and it’s really just one more day older but still…

Time

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While I was thinking about time, I was reminded of an idea someone mentioned to me a while ago. I can’t remember who it was but it goes like this. Have a guess at how old you will be when you die; subtract your current age from that number to get your estimate of how many years you have left. Now multiply that figure by 365 to get the number of days remaining in your life.

Calculations

So for me, I am going to guess that I will die when I am 85. And now I’m 52, so I have 33 years left which is equivalent to 1716 weeks or just over 12,000 days.

Another way of looking at this is to say that I’ve been here for nearly 19,000 days so far and so I’m over 60% through my life if my estimates (and my maths) are accurate.

Perspective and Motivation

Now I’m NOT saying this because I feel maudlin. It’s much more about putting things into perspective - a reality check, if you like. 12,000 days doesn’t seem all that much to me and there’s still plenty I want to do and achieve before I move on elsewhere. So, I feel it’s quite a motivational idea - I don’t want to waste time, I want to get on with life, to enjoy it. I want to attract more wonderful things into my life and I don’t want to hold myself back. There is no time to waste.

Do you want to do your own calculations ? I’ll leave you to it.

Short post this week - I’m sure you will see why !!

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I’ve been thinking about self-esteem recently. We would all like to have high self-esteem, right ? This post explores what self-esteem means and suggests ways we can all go about raising our self-esteem.

What exactly is self-esteem ? Where does it come from ? Were we born with it ? Is it something we have or something we do ?

Esteem
Let’s start with the word Esteem. Here are some definitions I found

• respect: regard highly; think much of;
• admiration: a feeling of delighted approval and liking

How do you treat someone you hold in esteem ? Think of someone. I imagine that you: Continue Reading »