Everybody has a favorite number, which is yours? Of course mine, as a rare creature, is not between one to ten, but mine is eleven, which comes from Old English endleofan, literally meaning “[ten and] one left [over]. Maybe I have always considered myself the left over. Being a middle sibling, the attention is often draw to the older and the younger one. But on the other hand, I often thought of me as the unique one and all those connotations that follows...
I was always have been drawn by the number Five, especially when you needed to think about a number between one and ten, often used when playing games. I choose five as it was the one in the middle, like me. In the Bible the number 5 is a symbol of balance. It means that you have to keep balance between material and spiritual aspects in your life. It also symbolizes God's grace, goodness and favor toward humans. The Ten Commandments contains two sets of 5 commandments. The first five commandments are related to our treatment and relationship with God with the remaining one concerned with our relationship with others humans. But the number Five is also important as it has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. Give me five! We use our hands and fingers all the time; to count , touching, hugging, expressing our emotions and sometimes kicking. (Don't forget our toes in our feet) Number Five is a very powerful number. People with the Life Path Number 5 are very much interested in traveling and exploring as they are quite adventurous in nature. They are always keen to meet new people, go to different places and explore in order to gain knowledge about a variety of things. This energy instills a lot of passion in them, resulting in an aura that everyone admires. Their energy is crucial to their success since they are spontaneous, which saves them a lot of time. I also noticed I married someone whose name has got five letters. They are free-spirited beings and will do anything to maintain their freedom. They are loyal once they settle in a long term relationship. They appreciate the good things in life. Sun Number 5 folks are best compatible with Sun numbers 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 (lucky me I have two 1s). Number 5 in Numerology represents the planet Mercury and is associated with the senses they have. These people are usually very beautiful and have a charismatic aura. They are quite fun-loving, zealous and cheerful. That is why people love to be around and spend time with them. All these things about the number 5 if you are superstitious, but in my reality I have started using the number 5 with other meanings.
So these are my Thoughts about a simple number... but it has it's potential for my everyday and my future. Lucky 5 some say! "New place, new start"
So coming to live in Florida for some time and having the whole day to just do nothing sounds like a good plan. But I guess that after a day of just laying down on a sofa or sitting on a chair next to the swimming pool feels like I am not doing much for myself. One of my intentions when coming here was to change a bit the routine I was doing in London, especially in the morning. When you are schedule to go to work, your mind plays an important role every single morning. The alarm starts ringing, you reach the snooze button, so all you want to do is sleep a little bit more. Everything you have planned the night before, just goes run the drain, as it seems there is a conflict there. My actions were speaking more than my intentions. "Nothing gets you out of bed like an important task or something you love to do" Now that my work is out of my morning routine, I need to find something that motivates me to start the day in a more productive way. The most important tip, however, is to follow my own instincts. Experiment and see what works for me. Something that does the trick for other people might not work for me. If I realize it doesn’t, I won't be afraid to abandon it and try something else instead. When I was 20 years old, my day was pretty hectic; having two jobs, giving private tuition, going to the university and also doing sports were part of my daily routine. Doing all these activities during the week, day after day, thinking about them seems pretty exhausting. But I didn't mention I was getting up three times a week around 5:30 am to go running with my neighbour, That surely looks crazy, as I was doing all those tasks during the day... but for me it was easy to go running. Why? Motivation... Guess I fancied the man... so I would do anything to be with this married man for a couple of hours. I even enrolled myself to run half a marathon with him... crazy! So finding something that will motivates me to jump out of bed and tackle things that matters to me will be the best thing... so getting back in shape is seems to be the aim. The great thing about here in Florida is that you open the window and the sun is there to wake you up. "Early morning exercise can set you up for a healthy, happy and productive day". So my alarm is set up at 6:30 each day, give myself 15 minutes to get myself ready before I get out of the house and do a couple of miles walking combining with running. As my fitness at this time is so bad, I cannot even run 100 meters without being out of breath. But I need to start from somewhere, this will eventually develop in running a bit more each day. My new addictive hobby is listening to podcasts or non fiction books while I am doing this new routine. It gives me more motivation to plan more things ahead and also distracts me from the fact that I am doing the exercise. "Some of your best work will be done in the morning, so give yourself time to see to it before tackling other tasks" Once the running is done, I have a nice healthy breakfast (I missed my old croissants) I have enough time to start writing for an hour. I always enjoy it, but after David passed away, I lost all interest in writing, (maybe it was too painful to write about him) and never got the time to start doing it again. Luckily I was be able to rejoin with this website my time where my thoughts flows and memories of my own life comes back to me in flashlights. After that therapeutic session writing my feelings, I am ready for the new routine, which is hitting the gym, where I meet up with great elderly gentlemen who are trying to keep their fitness in great level. I have never been to a gym before, so that is my first experience doing this type of group fitness. But I guess finding the right place and people is the key to get motivated to do this kinds of activities. That goes my smoothly new morning routine. The key to developing your own morning routine isn’t any one technique or activity; it’s doing what works best for you. And this is what is working for me at my present. So Two weeks already here starting a sort of new lifestyle, eating healthy, no buzz, doing exercises everything was going as I planned, until yesterday when I went to two parties and honestly, I think I ate and drank myself to death, This morning I woke up , angry with myself and thought why I did it. I guess there were some factors that led me to find comfort in having a nice drink and also the place was so tempting with nice food, that nobody could not resist having a bite. So why after two weeks doing things right, everything seems to start collapsing! One of the words that came into my mind today was consistency, and I think that is part of the key in achieving your goals. Looking at the definition, someone who is consistent always behaves in the same way, has the same attitudes towards people or things, or achieves the same level of success in something. But that's not definitely me, so to my surprise, I am not a persistent person, or maybe I am? "With a little perseverance You can get things done Without the blind adherence That has conquered some And nobody wants to know you now And nobody wants to show you how So if you're lost and on your own You can never surrender And if your path won't lead you home You can never surrender And when the night is cold and dark You can see, you can see light 'Cause no one can take away your right To fight and to never surrender To never surrender" Corey Hart - Never surrender Maybe consistency is more important than your emotions. Consistently going towards your mission it's more important if things get difficult. Getting a really clear visualizing what you want, making decision to commit to it and consistency is not a foot out or in, it's all the way! Like Erik Fisher mentions in The Power of Consistent strikes, one of the biggest struggles with reaching a goal is being overly ambitious and not setting one's self up for long-term success. Instead of big goals requiring huge actions that are hard to maintain, discover the power of building uninterrupted streaks of small simple actions that, over time, will deliver progress. Perhaps the ideal way for consistency is to have a path were you want to head, but this path can be a slow one, diverted, taking you to different directions, distracting you, deceiving you, but being truth to yourself and getting small result one by one, then you will certainly get to your goals. So let's start by doing my morning walks now. this will bring me a sense of achieving some results! |
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