Lifestyle

How to Live the Life You Love Starting Today

May 11, 2015 By Uncoveries

The determining question is this:

If you could make a comfortable and profitable living doing what you enjoy, is it what you’re doing now?

Put in other words, is what you’re doing now how you’d spend your time if you didn’t have to worry about earning money?

Waiting for the right time or perfect conditions to pursue what you’re truly passionate about is shortchanging yourself and the world. The someday plan, the aspiration you’re saving for years down the road or in retirement, what’s the real reason behind your postponement?

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Your Life Crisis Explained: It’s the Stage Not the Age

May 4, 2015 By Uncoveries

A movement is brewing.

Call it what you wish: quarter-life crisis, Millennial entitlement (although some disagree), boomerang or Peter Pan syndrome, but it’s real. In increasing numbers, young adults ranging in their early twenties to mid-thirties are realizing their lives are not what they want and taking steps towards the search. Gone are the days of blindly following the step-by-step, conventional path of the school system, college, and stable career with a company.

With the freedom of choice and paradoxically abundant and sparse options, many are feeling more conflicted than ever.

In the Great Recession, many of us struggled to find a decent paying full-time job after college, picking up service industry, part-time or whatever work we could find to pay the rent. For those who found full-time jobs right after college, we steadily worked our 9 to 5 (if we were lucky) or more hours depending on industry, field and business climate. In either scenario, a mass sense of dissatisfaction remained constant; a sense there must be more to life than making a paycheck and buying bigger, better and more things.

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Tempering Your Life Balance: The 3 Stage Process

April 28, 2015 By Uncoveries

Temperance plays a part in each of our worlds. It’s a fickle game—a puzzle for each person to determine his or her personal settings in life. Some people live their whole lives off-balance, never fully reaching their potential.

How temperance is defined here is balancing the temporal enjoyments you value (whether it be food, drink, consumer goods, travel, stability, independence, freedom of time) with the bigger goals you have in life. There is a personal line between excess and intention. Stepping over the line slides into diminished meaning or deprivation. In times when my focus was indulgence in its diverse forms, what I found instead was a labyrinth-like, sneaking sense that something was missing. In yo-yoing from one extreme to the other, Goldilocks style, I’ve learned the following: the grass is not greener on the other side; it’s different with its own set of pros and cons and the same in its lack of solution.

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Get Out of Your Head: 5 Ways To Live in the Present

April 20, 2015 By Uncoveries

Being in the present moment is one of the simplest yet most difficult concepts to master. Most of us spend far more of our lives in the past or future than we realize, constantly swinging from thought to thought, the incessant self-chatter preventing us from living fully in the present.

We think about what we did, said, should have done, or what we might do tomorrow, the next week, or (for the extreme planners) the next year. Instead of fully experiencing the beauty and joy we have in our lives now, we’re distracted by the illusion in our heads.

We fool ourselves into experiencing a diminished version of our lives when we’re too busy scanning behind or ahead of where we’re currently standing.

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5 Quick Tips to Simplify Your Home

March 30, 2015 By Uncoveries

Imagine this. You open the door to your home and walk into a place of peace and tranquility. Is this what you see when you enter your home?

If what you see instead is a battleground of chaos, you have the power to change it with a few simple tips. Follow these quick tips to simplify your home every day and over time to create an environment where you can relax, enjoy and focus on living the life you really want. The state of your primary environment makes a huge difference on your quality of life, so what are you waiting for?

Here are 5 quick tips to simplify your home and create a home sanctuary.

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5 Ways to Spend Your Energy More Intentionally

March 23, 2015 By Uncoveries

You only have a finite amount of energy in a day. Many people begin their day in a hurry, rushing from one thing to the next. They end up exhausted in the evening time, perhaps feeling like they haven’t done much of anything and wondering where the time went.

This is where more intentional use of energy comes in. We’re not necessarily talking about doing more. We’re talking about simplifying and focusing more of what actually matters and focusing less on what doesn’t matter. With greater awareness and intentional choices, we are able to maximize the amount of energy we have for the things we want to do each day.

Here are 5 ways to spend your energy more intentionally each day!

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5 Ways to Embrace Simplicity in Food

March 17, 2015 By Uncoveries

We begin exploring simplicity with one of the most basic things in life.

Food is universal.

Many people have an immense love for food, and I’m definitely not an exception. I used to keep the Food Network on for most of the day and watch all types of delicious eats I didn’t have in my kitchen. What I was actually doing was spending my energy and attention on food options I didn’t even want before I saw them. The constant parading of exotic and indulgent options advocates for variety, complexity and in many cases less healthy choices.

Instead, I’ve become an advocate for simplicity in food. When I say food, I mean whole, unprocessed, and high quality products from nature. Simplicity in food is often overlooked, and is an area beneficial to everyone. The benefits include healthier choices, more energy, less stress, less waste, less consumption, and often less cost, depending how you go about it.

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Comfort in the Unknown

October 21, 2014 By Uncoveries

The unknown, unfamiliar, unexpected – it often results in life’s most worthwhile experiences. Yet many people associate it with apprehension instead of with excitement and adventure. I understand – I was and, although to a lesser extent, am still one of them.

It’s only human. I still have moments when I breathe deeply, reminding myself to physically and mentally calm down. I tell myself I will make the best decision when the actual fork in the road presents itself – not one I’ve fabricated in my internal reality. The serendipitous quality of life happens when you open yourself up; it generally works out even when it doesn’t seem like it at the time.

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