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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
Bucket List [Definition]: A number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime. (Source: oxforddictionaries.com)
With every new year many people make resolutions, goals, bucket lists of things they hope to accomplish. A lot of these are serious, life-changing, deep and meaningful things they’ve always dreamed of achieving. However, at WWN we wanted to put a different spin on it. We are aware that as women we’re all so busy taking care of everyone around us and hardly ever have time or energy to put ourselves on any ‘to do’ list. So this blog post is about treating yourself to some fun, exciting and enjoyable adventures. Our question for you is simply: ‘What’s on your ‘fun’ list for the year?’
Film poster for The Bucket List – Copyright 2007, Warner Bros. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Here are some ideas to get creative your juices going:
1. Go on vacation to places you’d never ordinarily visit. Tour different lands with interesting histories/cultures and meet diverse people. Make sure your travels tell a story worth sharing with your grandchildren. Examples: visiting all the countries in Africa, back-packing through Europe, visiting the home countries of your top three heroes etc
2. Learn a new style of dance (preferably in a group or with a partner) and have a choreographed dance routine/recital for your friends and family at the end of your sessions.
3. Do something that scares the life out of you but also guarantees a good rush of adrenaline such as bungee-jumping, hiking up a mountain, running a marathon, camping, learning how to fly, telling off negative people in your life etc
4. Collaborate with others and start a fun and exciting campaign on any of the social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc) on a burning topic that you’re very passionate about!
5. Get together with some friends, your alumni group, colleagues or family members and have a themed-costume party, reunion or ball (remember to donate a portion of the proceeds to charity or a worthy cause, if applicable).
6. Go on a fun spiritual retreat. Journey into a new awakening of your inner self, your essence and your soul.
7. Have a full-wardrobe and make-up make-over. Do the whole works; hire a personal stylist/image consultant, clear out your old wardrobe, pamper yourself with a weekend-long spa treatment and transform your image.
8. Go for some wonderful live events at home or abroad, such as a tv show, comedy, jazz or movie festival. Or attend a music concert/show by your favourite artiste(s).
9. Learn a new skill. Think of all the wonderful stuff you’ve always wanted to do when you had enough time, enough money or enough courage such as: baking/cooking, writing, learning a new language, swimming or starting an exciting new business.
10. Take risks with all your relationships, shake them up a bit and ask for exactly what you want out of them. Take the time to create the memories you’ll cherish forever by doing fun, sensual and sacred activities together.
As you make your list make sure you actually get to do as many things on it as possible. You only live but once, give it your best shot and make it your duty to enjoy the heck out of life! Remember to send us postcards as you embark on your many, wonderful adventures!
P.S: If you haven’t done so already, watch ‘The Bucket-List’, a fantastic, funny and insightful movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
Live beautifully, live passionately, live freely.
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Remember, you are not ordinary, you are divinely unique.
You are WOW (Wonderful One-of-a-kind Woman)!
w(H)olistically Yours,
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The preceding is a guest post from Juliet Ume, MBA –Wealth Management Consultant & Lifestyle Coach at Whole Woman Network. Juliet is an avid Life Connoisseur and a passionate advocate of WomEntrepreneurship, Investment & Financial Literacy for women. Her mission is simply to engage women to return to ‘wholeness’ and live Healthier, Sexier, Wealthier Lives! Follow her on Twitter: @wholewomaninc
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On Aug 13, about 6 weeks ago, I finally took a proactive step on my journey to physical fitness. Like a lot of women who struggle with keeping to an exercise regime and eating healthy, I hit a plateau in the last week. I had a change of schedule in my week and all the old bad habits (and all their associated excuses), just started creeping back: Stopped going to the gym (no time to exercise), eating junk and unhealthy food (too much stress in preparing healthy alternatives),….
On Sat, Oct 1, the initial effects of my poor choices started showing. A migraine to set things off and then lack of sleep over the weekend. Then of course, there’s the tiredness, lack of energy and general feeling of crankiness!! So this morning, I decided to hold my self accountable and get back on track. I watched a few Tony Robbins videos on YouTube that talked about the power of choice and how ultimately the choices we make are the the main deciders of our destiny. So ‘decision’ is the ultimate power. I learnt also that resources (or lack of) are mere tools (or excuses) why we succeed or fail. On the other hand, resourcefulness (what you do with what you do have or don’t have), is your key to your destiny, whatever that may be.
If we can get the true emotions behind our stories, we can get pretty much anything in life. Emotional and psychological fitness drives other areas of fitness. So our job is to understand and appreciate what drives us and other people around us. A simple loop with a tripod of key attributes helps to shape our THOUGHTS-ACTS-HABITS-CHARACTER.
This tripod is made up of:
1. Target (what are our goals?)
2. Map (How do we get there, ie how do we achieve our goals?)
3. Emotions (what we need to unlock to make the journey meaningful?)
This tripod shapes our thoughts, our actions, habits and interweave to form our character and who we are in our different spaces (Physical, emotional, spiritual, mental and social). Our aim is to have seamless consistency in all of these spaces. Most often, what we have in reality is a dissonance and this disconnect is at the the root of our feelings of pain, helplessness, failure, depression, anger, anxiety etc
So as I continue on my fitness journey, I am now more aware of salient underlying issues that I must uncover and resolve. We will share the final outcome of this journey by the first quarter next year (March 31st, 2012) with pictures of my ‘before’ and ‘after’ states. There are other women in the Whole Woman Network group on the same journey with me. So, we’ll all share our experiences on WWN Facebook Group page, but ladies, do continue sending in your weekly email updates to info@wholewomannetwork.com or wholewomannetworkinc@gmail.com.
So, good luck ladies and stay fit!
P.S: Our next fitness goal is Financial Fitness! We’ll keep all members updated by email on the Financial Literacy seminar series. Send your questions and areas of interest by email.. Pass the word because we are on a long-term mission to get Women to take more control about their personal finance and investing choices.
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Remember, you are not ordinary, you are divinely unique.
You are WOW (Wonderful One-of-a-kind Woman)!
w(H)olistically Yours,
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