Month: July 2022

Give Yourself Time With Yoga

Everyone is struggling to find time these days, too many things are keeping us busy. Besides the job and home responsibilities we also have an entire online world to explore. Sometimes maybe we have the time but we don’t have any energy left to use it on things that we love doing because we are exhausted after a day of work. You take and you take until you feel like you are actually not in control of your own time anymore. I felt like this for quite a while. I live in London where things are always taking a long time because of the distance between things. Especially when I used to commute, at the end of each day I was looking back at how I spent my time and very little of it was for myself. And even having couple of hours for myself didn’t leave me with enough energy to go to the gym for example or go for a run. So for a long while I was in this state of blaming …

Creativity Means Hard Work

I am in holiday at the moment and I woke up this morning thinking that I should work on writing a short story. It’s been years since I said I want to start and do some writing. What did I do towards this? Well, I enrolled myself in an online class about how to write short stories but then in the middle of it I slowed down, I didn’t allocate enough time for myself to do the exercises in the class and I eventually abandoned it. So clearly I wasn’t ready to put in the work. I found all kind of excuses and questions like this: – I have no good ideas about short stories, it seems like staring at beautiful sunsets doesn’t do anything for me. Ideas just don’t come to me, I am broken! – I have only written texts for myself before, there seems to be a lot of rules and tips for writing shorting stories, I feel overwhelmed now. Too many video tutorials, too many classes online, I am completely lost. …