If we feel that our life is becoming undone then it could be because we have let our standards drop. We let ourselves down when we become slack and loose in attitude and loose in behaviour.
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It is so easy to get up late in the morning, to then sit on a chair and watch YouTube,TV, a movie etc, or just lounge about doing nothing much of anything. Every now and then I catch myself like this because I stay up late on Facebook chatting, or writing a status etc, then I get up late and then feel like doing nothing much for the rest of the day.

They say that the devil finds things to do with idle hands, so it is wise to be positively active. It is good for the heart, body, soul and mind to be positively active.
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I used to get up at 5am, tidy up the house, do exercises from 6am to 7:34am, and then relax, go for a morning walk to the shop, come home and do anymore housework that needs doing before I really start my day.

Recently I have seen that I have become a bit slack and by lunchtime not much is done around the house because I haven’t been getting up early, and once back from the walk to the shop I have been on Facebook, and I have been not doing much.

When this happens I know that to get back to being more organized and ready for the day I need to get tough on myself, and to push myself to getting up early, and keeping focused on the tasks at hand, and not to allow myself to be drawn away to being idle and wasting the day away.
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To do this sometimes I make up a chart of all the housework that needs doing, and then I work fast to get it all done checking off each item. This is a wonderful way to warm up the body before doing some exercises and weights etc.

Housework is a natural way to warm up all the body, and to stretch the body as well. And if you have to reach up to put something on a shelf just stretch that little bit more so that you are doing your body and muscles some good, and when using a broom reach out further with each sweep across the floor, try to use the legs, arms, shoulders in the work at hand, and the same working with the vacuum cleaner.

If we see the value of the work that we put into housework, digging the gardens, and general work around the home we will enjoy it much more and always be keen to get into it.

Good constant exercise, good clean food and water, a clean healthy environment, are all good for the mind. Organized people are often known as people who have their lives in order, but also have good imaginations because they think while they work, and the clever one’s write down what they are thinking about as they go.

I get a lot of ideas for statuses on Facebook while doing housework, by keeping the body active we seem to free up the mind for thinking.

I hope this inspires you to see that instead of paying to use a gym you can do exercise at home just doing your normal chores and doing free workouts like they have on You Tube.

All the best from
James M Sandbrook.