I hope all of you are enjoying a marvelous Earth Day. In New England we have been kindly given awesome weather after so much time spending spring in the rain (not that that’s a bad thing!) Here are different ways you can contribute to Earth Day.
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If you’re a young adult, chances are you struggle to keep up with your hobbies while trying to be responsible with schooling and a working. Here are tips I found useful in devoting time to my many hobbies (drawing, reading, blogging, etc…!) while keeping up with my school work at the same time.
1.) Organize
When things are in their place, you can focus properly on the task at hand. Study a little feng shui to get an idea of how just re-organizing your room can help you become more productive. Keep your desk clear and clean up after projects so that the next day you have free space to work on.
3.) Schedule
Chances are you grew up in a school system that revolved around regular scheduling. Everything was in timed increments. I realized that whenever I had a long break that I intended to get some drawing in, the vacation would fly by and I would have nothing to show for it. Once I started writing things down in one hour-increments, it was easy for me to get a bunch of stuff done in a day. It’s a little weird to write down basic things like “read!” and “draw!” but seriously, if I didn’t do it that way I would probably never fit them into my day. You would be amazed how much you could get done in one hour. I use this one-hour increment tactic to limit my internet surfing time as well. Set up a timer or a buzzer that will let you know when the hour’s up so you can fully devote yourself to your tasks without having to check the time.
3.) Don’t watch TV
TV is nothing but a box that tries to sell you things. TV itself consists of entertainment that revolves around increments of time–thus making it easy for you to watch it for hours straight. TV messes with your mind and spends your money. If you have to watch some TV, only watch your favorite programs and then turn the TV off when the show is over. Don’t channel surf in hopes of “finding something” to watch. Use that surfing time to devote yourself to your hobby. It’s not worth kicking yourself at the end of the day because “all you did was go to school and work.”
These are just some really basic habits that I found myself forming after I made a new year’s resolution to get organized and spend more time with my hobbies. I highly endorse the GTD (Getting Things Done) ideology. Here are some links I found useful for the GTD lifestyle:
- Sylvia’s Getting Things Done
- Four Tricks That Save Time
- Homemaking & Housekeeping: Get Yourself Organized
- LifeHacker: Best 50 Hacks For Your Life
The Pig (also known as the Boar) has gotten some flack in the stories of the Chinese zodiac for getting last place. And yet it is now the year of the Pig, and people are scrambling to have children this year in order to bring great wealth and success. Why is that so? Because this Chinese lunar year, starting February 18, 2007 and ending on February 6, 2008, the piggie is golden.
What does that mean? Well, for starters one must understand the concept of elements. If you have ever read into feng shui, then you might be familiar with the idea that nearly everything has an element assigned to it. Either water, fire, metal, wood, or earth–the position and angle of your bed, the arrangement of your room, even colors and material objects are all assigned an element. Simply put, everything has something that a.) creates harmony with it, b.) reacts against it, or c.) enhances it. Elements are also applied to the Chinese calendar. Depending on the year, the animal gets assigned a different element.
So how does a year turn into a golden one for a zodiac? Well, it gets more complicated. There are a variety of Chinese calendars that are consulted together, resulting in many more elemental-zodiac combinations. There are certain instances in which the resulting harmony between the elements and the zodiac create a “Golden” year for an animal, and that year becomes very auspicious for those born into it. The Golden Pig arrives every 600 years. Since the Pig is considered high in monetary luck, the year of the Golden Pig makes it even more so.
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