{"id":2501,"date":"2021-08-01T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2021-08-01T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T15:35:26","slug":"hey-mark-is-coming-over-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/2021\/08\/01\/hey-mark-is-coming-over-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Mark is coming over today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Self Love or crazy?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You’re all familiar with staycations, and self love and doing things for yourself. We all get that, but those words are probably hollow and really don’t motivate a lot of us to do nice things for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your friend is important<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If youir friend is coming over you would definitely make time and plan to do that thing they like\u2014a show, a play, an event or even something that is specific to your city. You’d do it because they are important and you can provide it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, you may also plan to have them over because they agreed to help you with something, and having help always makes the time go faster. It’s one of the things I discuss in my talk called Do it to a F.A.U.LT.<\/em><\/strong> Either way let’s take that concept and and make it work for us\u2014without having to even involve a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two sides to this<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are two aspects of this: Doing something fun, and getting something done. So for our takeaways we have two challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Choose something fun<\/strong> you’ve been wanting to do, and then make an appointment to do it (you can just say ‘tomorrow’ and don’t necessarily have to pick a time of day). Then act like your friend is coming over to enjoy that. make the arrangements you normally would – ignoring your phone (or using it less\u2014you don’t want to be a rude friend), actually setting aside time, making sure it is the best experience and even cleaning up your home a bit or buying snacks (or arranging proper transportation for an external event).<\/li>
  2. Choose a task that you’ve been dreading <\/strong>and make sure it’s not something that requires that you have another person help you. We don’t want you being crushed by trying to move a piano up a flight of stairs! Again, set a time, and commit. If you ask a friend for help what do you always do (or at least offer)? A reward of course. Go to dinner, have a beer, etc. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Let me know, as always, if these crazy change of perspectives work for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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