Updated March 9th, 2021 What to do when you’re bored Is there a cure for boredom? Because let’s face it, feeling bored can happen to the best of us. Interruption might work well sometimes in relationships: read a The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, but Does – but it doesn’t work so well when you’re bored with a task that needs doing. There’s no two ways about it, don’t take a break: it doesn’t work. I’ve tried it – more than once – on the assumption that taking a break would do me the world of good. Especially when I’m bored with all the online stuff I’m involved in, or when I’m fed up with cleaning in the house, but believe me it makes the experience worse when you get back to it. The trick! Stick with it until it gets done.…

Are you currently in a chaotic situation where everything around you seems not to help you live a peaceful life? The one you’ve maybe been dreaming of. Or perhaps you feel the storms of life raging against you and you’ve lost course and want to restore the peace and calm you so need to get you back on track. If so, then you need to face a crucial fact, and that is; YOU ARE TOO BUSY! In which case you’ll find it hard to experience peace at all. Gosh! You’re too damn busy to get any peace whatsoever. If this is you, then it’s time to forget about everything else for some minutes and focus on YOU! You need all the energy and good vibes you can get to be able to live a peaceful like and keep things going smoothly, yet your current exhausted self can never make that…

Have you managed to master your body’s stress response? Probably not. And you’re not alone…not many of us have. You might even be wondering why it matters. Harvard Medical School tells us exactly why…because “chronic activation of this survival mechanism impairs your health.” When stress occurs in life, your central nervous system goes into overdrive and your “fight or flight” hormones kick in. The emotions of fear or anger are often felt first physically – for example your heart may race, your face might get flushed, your stomach may “sink,” your hands may tremble… All warning signs from your body that something isn’t right and you need to either go into full combat mode or run like crazy. Although your brain is technically always in charge, it doesn’t always know it. Remember how high school peer pressure could occasionally get us into trouble by making choices we otherwise wouldn’t? The…