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Three Ways to Combine Five Ways

Oct 22nd, 2008 Posted in Interesting? | one comment »

Times Online has an article titled “Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists.”

I guessed that one of them is “Read a wildly generalized list of feelgoodery.”

I was wrong. Here they are:

Connect
Developing relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours will enrich your life and bring you support

Be active
Sports, hobbies such as gardening or dancing, or just a daily stroll will make you feel good and maintain mobility and fitness

Be curious
Noting the beauty of everyday moments as well as the unusual and reflecting on them helps you to appreciate what matters to you

Learn
Fixing a bike, learning an instrument, cooking – the challenge and satisfaction brings fun and confidence

Give
Helping friends and strangers links your happiness to a wider community and is very rewarding

Source: Foresight report

Of course, these are all beautiful ideas, but who has the time to add five things to the ol’ routine?

Wake up, brush teeth, pet cat, pet girlfriend, shower, drive, balk, swagger, hover, sidle, grind, and blog.

That’s already a dozen things I gotta do everyday!

Now I have to add five more just for the sake of staying balanced?

I don’t think I can do it.

Unless…

…I create supra-activities that include all five sanity-boosters simultaneously!

Such as:

• Playing a new song about pretty flowers on a weighted guitar for my mother.

• Jogging through downtown with a friend dropping dollars for the homeless while thinking up funny nicknames for them.

• Trying a new recipe with a foster child on my back noting each new aroma with an original haiku.

That’s not a bad start, my friends.

I am on the way to perfect time management and mental health!

as reported in The New York Times

October 22, 1908
COL. TAYLOR’S ESCAPE.
Dropped When Mob Fired at Him and They Left Him for Dead.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “I guess the world will regard me as lucky, but after all I simply played a trick that any one in the heat of battle with the odds against him might play.”

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Note from Southpaw: Today’s rhyming words have different syllable counts. I usually try to avoid this, and I feel awful about it, so I’ll give you a clue. The first word has 3 syllables while the second word has 4. Enjoy!

This double-lens, long-distance viewer isn’t giving me an accurate picture of the landscape! There’s some kind of goofy clown drawing in there. Is this a gag? Take a look, and tell me this is not a…

Highlight here for answer: [jocular binocular]

Entrances to Hell

I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

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