Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Ten ways to get yourself out of a rut. (To cheer yourself up)
Well now to me these are two separate needs – I may not need cheering up but have to get out of the same old/same old. In pondering the things that I do, I find a lot of it involves “escaping” rather than “coping”.
· Read. Diving into a good book is my #1 way to rest my mind. But it has to be a work that I can immerse myself in, which is why I lost count of how many times I have read from the introduction to The Hobbit to the last appendix in The Return of the King ((it was over two hundred times four decades ago))
· Head for my 2nd Life. go in Second Life. Kill demons. Wander around another world.
· Dress whimsically.
· Call a friend and talk. Sometimes this doesn’t work that well unless you have someone you can really resonate with
· Go to the movies. Go sit in the dark and eat popcorn and be somewhere else. But I only relax if it is a good story – get a movie that is all special effects and I might like it, but it doesn’t refresh or renew.
· Retail therapy. I like shopping, even in my 2nd Life. This is not healthy for my finances though…..
· Crafts. Sew, knit, do counted cross-stitch – been a while since I did this since I got so involved with the computer
· Eat. Yeah, there is a reason I am over-weight – food is not just for sustenance, it is an entertainment and a distraction. Hasn’t been very often in my life where I was to the point that I wasn’t ready to eat – usually if I am stressing out, I am ravenous.
· Meander. Sometimes outside, sometimes in a mall, might be in a museum, maybe a craft show or flea market [ when I can find one]. Just refusing to be anywhere at a designated time and puttering along
· Write. Journals rock and after everything gets down on paper and you have cried it out? Sometimes it doesn’t look that bad after being caged in words.
And this is the end of this particular meme. It has been harder than I thought it would be to keep with it – the person I lifted it from didn’t – and I don’t know how interesting it was for you all either.
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