Simplify. Walk through the city in the evening, led only by the light of street lamps and the glow of the moon. Choose your favorite pair of jeans and wear them every day for an entire week...no apologies, no excuses and no explanations. Refuse to deal with any school deadline for at least one week. Leave the television on one channel. Don't change channels at all, no matter how great the temptation. Listen to one student each day with fixed attention and for an extended time. Do not explain yourself...at all. Chew each piece of food well and contemplatively. Stop wasting time trying to fix people who do not wish to get better. End relationships which are negative and draining. Begin new relationships.
Do not get on the scale for at least one month. Hide the scale. Pay all your bills late this month. When blowing out a candle, stay and watch the smoke completely disappear. Think about where it goes. Do not dust or vacuum for a week. Stare into a person's eyes until both of you are slightly uncomfortable and then...speak. Let words linger unspoken on your lips, for five seconds longer than you think you can stand to be silent. Refuse to argue about anything. Walk away from angry people.
Let your gas tank go below E. Watch an entire program on television without getting up to do laundry, answer the phone, use the bathroom, eat or to use the computer. Refuse to move for sixty minutes. Stop doing ten things half-baked and instead do five things really well. Drink your coffee black...no calories, no fuss. Send someone a card...not an email. Get out of your car and take the time to pick up all the change that gets dropped at the drive-through window at McDonalds. Refuse to acknowledge the honking cars behind you. Speak slowly. Breathe deeply. Stare at someone who is being rude until they are flustered. Stop going to McDonalds for one month. Do not listen to the news. Do not listen to anything the Department of Education says. Do not read any emails from the Department of Education.
Drink one glass of wine and savor it. Watch the snow fall against the bedroom window. See how long you can go without doing laundry. Donate to Haiti. Pray on the way to work. Pray on the way back from work. Drive in complete silence. Drink cocoa so slowly that you will not burn your tongue. Do not criticize anyone. You may find yourself being silent for days. Buy yourself flowers. Give them away. Love each day and contemplate how rich your life is. Count five people who have difficulties greater than yours. Bless your students daily. Bless your co-workers daily. Bless yourself daily...and be thankful.
Wear the same pair of woolen socks for one week. Eat a large bowl of cabbage. Refuse to take any medications for one day. Light white candles to chase away the January darkness. Call a friend. Bake cookies for someone you do not like. Refuse to wear panty hose. Bite your nails. Walk for 90 minutes in the cold. Do not read the directions. Do not listen to your car mechanic. Ignore the check engine light in your car for one week. Buy a lava lamp and watch the wax go up and down. Take a scalding hot bath. Use at least a half a bottle of expenseive body lotion after the bath. Attempt to reconcile with an enemy. Go to bed much earlier than you ever thought you could. Thank God for a simple day. Understand fully that this day is gone forever. Rest.
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