Today, I feel aware there are many people out there who do not know what to do with their time to be happier and contented in life. You are not alone, I was there some years ago and I'd like to share some things with you in this post that should help you considerably. Let your slogan be:

NEW YEAR - NEW HOPE

Not that a New Year in itself can do that but I believe that New Years and New Seasons were given to us by our Creator to lift our sights and refresh our outlook, so on a continual basis, we could leave The Old behind us

(the memories, the discontents) and press into The New - whatever that means for each person. The thing is, not everyone knows what that Can Be........and that is A Discovery we need to make.......and I want to help you

with that.

Some years ago, when I was having an extended break from Natural Health Research, I felt quite bleak because that had been a passion for me and I felt lost for something to do.

One day I was sitting in my lounge-room and it occurred to me "even though I've not been brought up with Sports or Crafts, I think I will see if there's some new Craft I could be interested in".........so I contacted a group by phone and the day was set to go and have a look.

The day came. They had lots of activities there and when I walked into the room with someone, the very first glance I had at a table on my right when entering this room, really interested me - I immediately knew that's what I would like to do. "Craft Cards, Wow! That's for Me!" They looked so interesting. They offered me a place and I ventured what became my interest for several years. In fact, it became a passion.

Each one of those women had a little collection of things to make their Cards with and I went to buy some that week. That was half the fun, deciding what I would like to work with and building up quite a collection over the coming weeks and months:)

Those were years prior to making Websites, and that became a new interest - one of those was an eCard Website that kept me very busy - another form of Cards, shall we say?

Now after making Websites since 2010 I have decided to take up Craft Cards again - a further step in maintaining a Balance with my commitments to Websites. Otherwise, I can be living living mostly for others, while forgetting to enjoy certain things and leaving aside things I have been intending to do for sometime in my garden and kitchen etc

Can anyone relate with that? Believe it or not, most people would have plenty of time to engage in interests or even family, if they spent far less time watching TV (television). I will speak for my Dad here because he was a pioneer in TV Sales and Service in the 60s (he commenced in 1958). I will let you know what he said to me and why he retired early when he he intended to continue his work pass retirement age (he was exceptionally good at it and everyone liked him). He Said to me, during service calls, he noticed a difference in families he had sold 

TVs to - they had lost the closeness they had, the way he could see them relating as a family when he first made calls on them. He liked the way they interacted and then they became kind of estranged to each-other.

Friends, how much more is that true of Families Today? Even the Single Person makes their life emptier that way often because the TV can become a replacement for company whereby they don't mix much with company. 

Research I did 4-5 years ago reveals to me,  not only does extended hours of watching TV numb our brains with the gazing at constant stimuli coming from the Screen and barrage of sound effects and words........ the constant use of Cell-Phones through out the day and evening - not to mention laptops and media - is actually Changing the Way we Think and Communicate. Has anyone noticed that?

If not with yourself, with others around you maybe? 

Seriously, it is inevitable that most people get addicted to some extent in some way, if they spend too much time with TECH. You could rightly call it The Excessive Control and Harassment of modern day living.

And we need to be SMART - we really do! Sensibility Matters for the ART of Living. Most of us need to

take a look at Living Life instead of coasting along or "everything rush, rush!" 

In all honestly, that's where it's at for most of us, isn't it? because the initiative of making Smart Decisions that make for a Good or Better Life has be hijacked - so to speak - by TECH, MEDIA and the PACE of Modern Day Dictatorship (How you should live your lives). The Commercials and Voices over TV are saying "Do This, Do That......You Should This, You Should That......You Don't Have This, You Don't Have That"

The Spirit of The World, shall we call it? Is like a Big piece of machinery, influencing and governing

much or most of what we buy, decide, how we think......and it's no joke, if you think about it......

a little observation pretty much confirms that. If we really stop to think about it.

A Good Experiment Would Be To Stop Watching TV for 5-7 days and Cut Down Our Use of Laptops

(Computers) and Cell-Phones (Mobiles) As Well and See what Difference It Makes.

You can also gauge the amount of addiction you have to these "Conveniences" and add up the 

amount of time you saved OR could save for a More Satisfying Lifestyle, without so much use

of them, hey? 

It's amazing and it's good for the Busy Person to discover how much extra time they have, they did

not know they have (when better spent in the evenings, whatever) and some motivation for the

 Inactive Person to find replacements for lost time and improve their health at the same time.

Truly, both groups of people will be much Happier and Healthier with a change in Lifestyle.

And I am not "Exempt".........since making Websites, I have discovered this twice now.

Shall I be honest? Spending so much time that it takes to make multi-page websites, it is inevitable

that sooner or later, you're going to become addicted to some extent to the Computer you Work At.

Well, it happened to me! At one point of time, I sensed that my communications with loved ones

had changed somewhat......I was spending less time with them and did not express the amount of interest

I previously had with them. I was used to giving them undivided attention and expressing happiness when they came to spend time with me. I would be out to the front door in a flash.

Does that sound familiar to some of you? It does to some, I'm sure. Because do you know why?

I came to a consciousness that so much Activity over my Computer was changing the way I Tick

when it came to Communications and other things. Yes it's true, I found out when I decided to research this. 

I  actually discovered what is a Passion for me (making inspirational websites) was an Addiction

as well, just like I suspected. Sad to say, I did not recognise things were on the way to that

change in Communications until it became noticeable to me when it had developed for a while.

SOME THINGS YOU COULD TRY TO IMPROVE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE

To be continued Soon!