Sydni Lux

Feeling Stuck? 100 ways to change your life

2011-07-27T20:36:00.000-04:00

*Via Wisebread

You've got 20 minutes to change your life in 100 ways. Go.
This is the premise of an exercise I tried once, when I was feeling stuck in life. I wasn't sure what was amiss, but the routine I had fallen into was not satisfying the inner voice in me that insisted there was something else out there for me.
After trying (forcefully) to understand what was going on, reading self-help books, filling out aptitude tests, and working with business and life coaches, I was given a suggestion that became a catalyst for some pretty big personal changes.
Here is how you can change your life in 20 minutes, step by step:

Clear all distractions. Turn off the phone, the TV, the computer. Lock your door, and go to a quiet place.
Sit down comfortably at a desk or table, with a blank piece of paper and a pen in front of you.
Set a timer for 20 minutes.
Go. Write down 100 things you want to do. Or careers you want to have. Or people you would like to meet. The sky is the limit.
Don't be realistic. Dream big. Write down the craziest things you can think of, as well as the things that you don't even think bear mentioning because they are so simple. Write it all down.
Work quickly. 20 minutes isn't very long, and you have 100 items to get through, if you can. Don't think about whether or not to write down an idea — just write. Write everything that comes to mind, even if it doesn't make sense. Just keep on writing, and don't stop until that timer goes off.

Something happens after about 10 or 15 minutes if you employ the exercise to its full potential. You stop caring about what specifically the ideas are, and you start to release an inner creativity that may have been locked away for a while. In an effort to get through 100 things in 20 minutes, you start to write outlandish things down that you aren't even really sure you want, but that are ideas that came to you nonetheless.

Ding! The timer goes off. No matter where you are in the process, or how many items you have written down, stop. (OK, if you are really on a roll and have a few more to write down because the juices are flowing, keep going. I won't tell.)
Leave the list alone for a day. Try not to look at it, and certainly don't revise it in any way. The following day, sit down and look at your list. How many of the items on it are feasible? Can you see your way to accomplishing any of it? Did anything come out of the list that you hadn't actually really thought of until you wrote it down in a hurried attempt to get to 100 items in the time limit? Any surprises in there?
The point of this exercise is not to create a giant and outlandish "to-do" list that never gets ticked off. Instead, it is simply to open up your mind to the idea that anything is possible, and to give you ideas that will help you to become unstuck in life.
Personally, after feeling stuck and making out my list, I identified a few ways to make positive changes in my life at the time; I joined Toastmasters because an item I wrote down was to become a public speaker. I also eventually started a blog to satisfy an inner wordsmith in me that has blossomed into a career. And ultimately, the list helped lead me to the decision to sell off everything I owned to live out my dreams of travel and adventure now.
And it all started with 20 minutes and 100 ways to change my life.

Smile!!!

2011-07-27T20:31:00.000-04:00

It can help you from looking like this:

Happy Wednesday!!!

-Lux

2011-07-10T03:03:00.001-04:00

Hoes will be Hoes, that is all...

Self Expression

2011-07-09T12:34:00.001-04:00

I am all for individuality and self expression. I feel a person do not truly know who they are unless they explore and seek out different avenues in their life.

The type of ways in which a person can express themselves are endless. There are hairstyles, clothing, body piercings and tattoos.

That leads me to talk about tattoos. Now I have a tattoo. My tattoo represent something that is dear to me. I put a lot of thought and soul searching into my tat. I am for tattoos being used in this form. I am NOT for people getting tattoos just because they are cute and just want one. Case in point:

Now, maybe Amber really do love Wiz and they will live happily ever after. That does not mean go ahead and place this man's name on your body. He hasn't bought you a ring. I did not see anything that indicated that the two are building a future.

That is what's wrong with today's society. Now every girl in America will think it is okay to place random tattoos of the guy that is blowing their back out on their body. Come on, we have to do better.

-Lux

I would Like...

2011-07-09T12:09:00.001-04:00

The dress Beyonce wore in "Best Thing I Never Had" video:

Of course it has to be off white, because I am a heathen. Just a tad bit smaller, because I do want to show off some curves (well the ones I have).

Maybe add a ~~groom to go with it.~~ Sike!

No really I thought this dress was beautiful and very tasteful for that "Saved myself for marriage" person,

because you know that ain't me!

-Lux

I'm Baaaack!

2011-07-09T11:31:00.002-04:00

I haven't blogged since 2009. It's been two years.

I miss you. I had sooo much happen in two years, that I cannot begin to type about.

I deleted all my old post to make room for the new me. Those post were the old me.

Sit back and relax.

-Lux