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Master of your time
“Change doesn’t happen because of how we invest our money. Change happens because of how we invest our human energy, and it always has since we came down from the trees.
Everyone’s got a margin of discretionary energy — ten percent, twenty percent — that isn’t used up making their way in the world. That’s the energy that’s available for social change.”
Daniel Taylor of Future Generation. Via.
How do you use your energy, and how much do you have left to help us move on to a next, more sustaining level?
Managing energy is one of the most important thing in our current times - we must each day, more and more, consciously choose to whom and how we’ll share this precious resource, our energy, which was for years sucked out without us noticing.
Managing energy means to carefully select our activities, manage our time, our health, our creativity. As a freelance or full time worker, it is a question we’re all facing: how much money are worth your hours? How much money is worth your energy? Your health and well being? Are all these hours worked really worth? Is there not a more creative and healthy way to spend your time and energy?
Among the most common time and energy sucking activities are an employer needing you more than 35 hours per week, friends or family meetings leaving you empty, shopping in a quest to find something that will fill the emptiness, over cleaning the house every week inside and outside, and tv watching.
All this precious time could be used in a creative way, to make small and big changes.
As i wrote some days ago, our present culture does not emphasize free and quiet time. Instead, we are pushed to fill the agenda until there is not a minute left to be alone in silence, or to have some time to think and take new actions, on a personal or community level, towards a brighter future. Having a lot of free time might be seen as not usual, wrong, as if someone would be out of a system, not worthy, slacking and even depressed.
You must ask yourself, who is ruling your life?
Become your own authority, be more aware of where and how you want to spend your energy, your health, and your time. We’ll all have to make choices, what will yours be?
Slow music
Here is a jazzy music mix by Gilles Peterson, should help you to slow down a little!
The luxury of rest
To Slow Down is a must, and if i omit, my body does remember me.
I’ll be slow blogging for the next days, as i must rest from yet another sinus cold. I know i could buy cheap-but-strong medicine, this way i could continue to run and run, ignoring my body’s urge to rest, my soul’s need for calm, but i’d rather choose to just stop and rest. I know this is luxury, since resting and relaxing are really expensive medicine these days, one that just a few can afford.
To learn to relax - through meditation, yoga, sports, traveling - will be a much needed activity in the coming years, as stress is becoming the number 1 disease in our culture. On this, i wish you all to be able to Slow Down a little, ’till i get back on my feet.
L’Herbier: soins corporels bio et équitables
Plongeons-nous un peu plus dans les petits soins - connaissez-vous l’Herbier?
« Les Soins Corporels l’Herbier offrent des produits de grande qualité, faits à la main au coeur du village de Mont-Saint-Grégoire en Montérégie. Cette entreprise québécoise opte pour des méthodes artisanales en utilisant des matières premières naturelles, biologiques, équitables et biodégradables dans le respect de la nature, de l’environnement et du corps humain.
Les Soins Corporels l’Herbier collaborent avec les producteurs locaux et les travailleurs de petites coopératives qui fournissent des actifs végétaux exempts de produits chimiques nuisibles (pesticides, herbicides, colorants artificiels, etc.). L’ensemble de ces démarches poursuit un but précis : favoriser le bien-être de tous et chacun tout en maintenant un rapport harmonieux avec la nature, dans une logique de développement durable. »
Je vous propose de débuter vos achats avec la Crème pour le corps à l’érable - miam, un délice qui peut très bien servir de crème à main. Leur liste de produits est disponible en ligne.
Nous pourrons plus tard cet été vous donner plus de détails lors de notre visite sur place 
Spa Espace Nomad Montreal
Maintenant déménagé dans les locaux de l’ancien Sergent Recruteur, le nouvel emplacement du Spa Espace Nomad à Montréal est tout simplement magnifique - vous ne voudrez plus laisser cet oasis de paix!
L’entreprise cofondée par Julie et Marie-Ève célèbre ses 4 années d’existence avec un nouvel emplacement au coeur du plateau Mont-Royal. Ont sait que les premières années d’une entreprise ne sont pas les plus faciles, alors chapeau à elles!
Truc écono: la promotion 3 certificats-cadeaux pour le prix de 2.
Et sinon, profitez des récentes trouvailles de voyage de Julie, cofondatrice passionnée des soins holistiques, qui a rapporté de Bali des secrets bien gardés: gâtez-vous avec le soin beauté et détente Bali Boreh - sûrement mon prochain achat!
On aime
En cette fin d’hiver dans la grisaille, on est content de retrouver les certificats cadeaux offrants 3 massages pour le prix de 2 chez Espace Nomade… *soupir*Yogi tea remedy
heal your next cold with a natural yogi remedy which should kick the virus out: 1 fist size chunk of ginger, boiled with 16 black pepper corn for 20 minutes - sweeten with honey and a decent amount of milk, drink over the day.I-Herb
A great resource and good overall value for buying natural health products online. Best prices for the great Weleda products i wrote about some weeks ago (also their miraculous Arnica cream).Tell us...
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Inspirations
Current loved ones:
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Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
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The Power of Your Other Hand : A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain, by Lucia Capacchione
Recently loved:
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New York Notebook, by Laurie Rosenwald
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferriss
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Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Succulent Wild Woman, by Sark
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Energy Medicine, by Donna Eden
Soon:
- A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
- Tout sur le compost, by Lili Michaud
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I am m-c, an artist and communicator. I love to inspire people through my art, writing, and my passion for the creative potential of web publishing tools. I run meïdia, a creative studio, and Creacamp.
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