The #summer10 or Things To Recharge Your Soul While On Vacation
1) Go for a walk — alone. Walking has long been the source of memorable prose and endless wiseness, some of us walk everyday to work, to our children’s schools or to run errands but walking alone in natural surroundings and enjoying the peace and quiet can be enormously energizing and you might be surprised by how hard it is.
2) Read a book — and not the one you were planning to. There are scores of lists of popular websites and a steady flow of experts and acquaintances that recommend books that are most often related to work and are trendy. Go down to a bookstore and spend a few minutes rummaging through their selection by yourself and pick the one that feels good to you.
3) Drink some good wine — not only the expensive stuff. Wine is one of the oldest beverages around and has given birth to a wide variety of tales and traditions not to mention, it even has health benefits. The one thing that most people omit is that when tasting wine your mind, taste buds and experience are put to great test — putting a word to each essence is far from easy.
4) Take a nap — it’s not reserved for babies and senior citizens. Ask any professional athlete what part of his / her training would never shorten or remove and they’ll tell you their naps. Our modern culture and way of life have changed inalterably our natural rhythms and produced unforeseen mental and physical health disorders, naps are a way to put things back in sync.
5) Try something new — teach yourself new tricks. Sure you’re golf game needs some long awaited extra hours but when was the last time you were in a discovery mode? Learning something brand new is the fastest way to step back in time and regenerate our juvenile curiosity and courage and benefit from the physiological elasticity it produces.
6) Cook your own food — eating is not just pushing a button. Run your finger back down the food chain and pick some raw edibles you have forgotten about and start from scratch for your next meal. Sure you can find inspiration if you want in the fathomless landscape of apps and websites, but treat yourself to the sensations of smelly things and the eerie sense of time.
7) Call a friend — someone you haven’t talked to in a while. Electronic communication in all its shapes and forms has increased noise with some of our tribe but for whatever reason, left some out in the cold. This is the time to reach out and use your phone for what it was built for, talking with someone you haven’t heard the voice of since you can remember.
8) Write a letter — postcards don’t count. Putting a pen to paper can be a very intimidating task in that our writing today does not match what’s in our childhood memories, neatly drawn letters ordinally spaced across a page. In the time you can write a one-page letter to someone you care about, you’ll spend more than 3 times that dwelling in and enjoying your imagination.
9) Create a new playlist — don’t rely on others. Finding and choosing things for others has become a job for many today and there’s no apparent reason why that trend is not going to continue given the breadth of choice we’re now faced with. Becoming your own curator is like building your own boat to set out to sea, you create your craft to explore horizons you never thought existed.
10) Make a list — about what you love to do. Just like this one, take a few minutes and write down ten things on a blank piece of paper you love doing. When you’re finished, give the paper to your other half and ask them to read it out loud and together, check off the ones you regularly do. The awakening is often brutal, take it with a stride and repeat often.
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