I talk about what the word “refreshing” means to me in Wordless Wednesday.
I get a little nerdy with “Quests, Reunions and RPGs”
I share my experience with staying Sane & Satisfied while getting ready for baby. Plus my baby shower is this Saturday!
and a Roundup of Ways to Save Money on Sunday Smorgasbord.
Hope you join me this week on the Blog 
Last week contained both happiness and sadness for me. I felt really productive (which is a rarity for me) and I finally got my head wrapped around some things that I had been struggling with for a while. But then yesterday we unexpectedly had to say goodbye to one of our kitties, Big Eyes. I guess it wasn’t completely unexpected. We had been trying to find a home for her but we were dragging our feet. We became too attached.
Then, when we had almost resigned ourselves to the fact that we might just have to keep her a young man who worked at the local pet store texted me that he’s interested in taking her home right away.
We immediately started thinking up reasons to not let her go home with this person. “He’s a boy.” “What if he doesn’t have a good job?” “I feel more comfortable giving her to someone we already know.” “But Big Eyes is such a mommy’s girl. Maybe we should just keep her.” It’s interesting the excuses we make up for not doing something we know we should do.
Anyway, we got through it and the new owner, Alex, came over and I could immediately tell he was a nice person. I asked him a few questions to become more comfortable: “How old are you?” “Do you live with your parents?” And it made me realize the importance of communication and the hindrance of assuming. I think most fear and excuse-making comes from a lack of knowledge. But as soon as you start asking questions the darkness and fear begins to lift
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Now enough of that mushy stuff. Here are the posts from last week in case you missed them:
Book Review Wednesday: The 4-Hour Workweek – A review of a pretty controversial book about productivity and not accepting other people’s rules.
The Art of Arguing – In which I talk about the importance of arguing and how to be a good arguer.
Home Spa Saturday: DIY Face Scrub – 3 easy peasy face scrubs you can make at home with ingredients from your own kitchen.
Sunday Smorgasbord: 10 Resources to learn skills and knowledge – A Resource Roundup of online tools I use to learn more skills and figure stuff out.
I hope you are having a Happy Monday! Get out there, learn something new, and create something with your own hands!
What is Sunday Smorgasbord?In Sunday Smorgasbord we celebrate all the skills, talents, resources, hobbies and ideas that humans can use to grow and prosper. You have everything you need to get started right now. So get up and start creating! Because there’s no magic pill for life.
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The concept of Sane & Satisfied rests on the foundation of Self Education. If you know what your skills are and understand how to use them and are motivated to learn more skills you can overcome any obstacle and are better able to create a happy and fulfilling life. So today, I thought I would do a roundup of my favorite online resources that I have used over the years to learn new skills and gain knowledge.
Relaxing, pampering, and taking time for ourselves is an simple yet often over-looked step to being Sane & Satisfied. So the third Saturday of every month I will feature a DIY spa treatment. It doesn’t take much time or effort to enjoy luxurious treats at home without spending a fortune. Take a break and enjoy
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Today’s Home Spa Saturday treat is a super easy face scrub. Face scrubs are great to add to any skin care routine because they feel wonderful while applying them and leave your skin soft and free of dirt and nastiness.
I have gotten into my fair share of arguments. I won’t deny it. And I have noticed a pattern: Most people just do not understand how to argue.
I’ve been told that arguing is bad, disrespectful, a waste of time and offensive. Arguing is such a taboo in fact that we have come up with various alternative words to describe what’s basically a disagreement. Discussion, debate, dispute, quarrel and squabble are just a few. And even though these all mean pretty much the same thing none of them comes close to eliciting emotion like the word “argument” can.
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss seems like the most controversial book in the self-help industry. Timothy is an odd duck. It doesn’t help that he makes a living experimenting on himself either. And he doesn’t seem to have any regard for other people’s rules. I’ve read a lot of reviews on The 4 Hour Workweek ranging from gushing, foot-kissing fealty to one-liners, sprinkled with 4 Letter Words. Actually most of the reviews fell into these two extremes. Apparently we either love or hate Tim Ferriss.
Most of the criticism of the book centers around the fact that “it’s impossible to only work 4 hours a week” and even Timothy admits that he works way more than 4 hours a week. But Tim didn’t write the book for people like himself. He wrote it for people who are working way too many hours at a job they hate. This book gives tools and advice on how to streamline your current endeavors while building a new kind of business and teaching you how not to fall into the same time-suck traps you did before. For someone who runs a drop-ship t-shirt company or sells a how-to manual, working only 4 hours a week is quite doable.
While my oatmeal is cooking on the stove I thought I would recap what went on at Sane & Satisfied Blog last week.
Hide Your Crazy – We talked about the fine line between being respectful and hiding who you truly are.
Freebie Friday: Sane & Satisfied Badge – Download a free badge to use on your blog, in email and in social media to show others that you are Sane & Satisfied.
DIY Health Plan – I help you create your own health plan that actually works for you.
Sunday Smorgasbord: Entrepreneur Games – A list of games that teach you about business and entrepreneurship. Take a break and play one today
Ok, I think my oatmeal is ready now. Gotta go.
In Sunday Smorgasbord we celebrate all the skills, talents, resources, hobbies and ideas that humans can use to grow and prosper. You have everything you need to get started right now. So get up and start creating! Because there’s no magic pill for life.
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I’ve been playing this game on my iPad called Fiona’s Flowers. It’s a time management/simulation/entrepreneur game where you run a flower shop. You start off with a few tasks like watering, planting and pruning your flowers. You also sell them out of your shed. The goal is to make enough money to advance through different garden contests.
Sane & Satisfied people should cringe at the word diet. It brings to mind starving oneself. It’s also interesting how the word diet was originally a noun used like “a Mediterranean diet” or “a low sugar diet”. Now it’s a verb. “I’m dieting” or “I’m going on a diet”. Often times people forget to define what sort of diet they are going on.
Whatever your health goals are this year, please don’t fall into the same trend as last year and the year before and the year before. Which is to say don’t listen to the hype, marketing and propaganda from “health gurus” who bank on the fact that thoughts of dieting and exercise are flooding the minds of Americans right now.
This month’s Freebie Friday is a Sane & Satisfied badge. Show people you are Sane & Satisfied and invite them to be Sane & Satisfied too. Share the love on Facebook, Twitter, your blog, website and even in your emails.
