Anxiety

The endless beauty of Costa Rica, a place to relax and find peace

I was watching a video the other day about managing time. Someone said that Elon Musk and Bill Gates block out their days in five-minute increments to organize themselves. Whether that is true or not I have no idea, but if it is and it works for them then that’s great.

It just isn’t how I want to live.

Some of my favourite memories are from times when I wasn’t doing anything.

When I lived in Mexico, there was a guy there who could play the flute. One night we were on the beach and the sound of the melodic notes still ring through my mind even now, so many years later. In Puerto Rico I met a professional trumpet player. I would hear him practicing when I was on the beach walking. It was something I looked forward to every day.

The best memories are the ones when something happened that wasn’t expected or planned.

Big-picture thinking seems like a good thing to do, but I’m not sure that it has been the most important factor in getting me from one place to the next. When I look back at how I thought my life would unfold, it never really did the way I thought it would.

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Making Choices

Sometimes I eat chocolate chip muffins – I just choose to make them healthy ones

I went to the grocery store the other morning after the gym. I wanted to get some fruit and some dates and that was about it. To get them, I had to walk by a breakfast buffet filled with sausages, eggs, bacon, fried potatoes, and a variety of other things. It smelled good, salty and fatty and savoury, and people were filling up containers to go. 

It didn’t make me want to eat it at all. Even though I was hungry, I want to feel good. None of that food makes me feel good. 

I grabbed a couple of kiwi fruit and the dates and headed for the register. To get there I had to walk through displays of chocolate bars, potato chips, and candy. Then on my way out there was a big rack full of croissants and donuts and other baked goodies.

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