Time for Self

Propose games like “jalebi race” or “spoon and marble race” or “three-legged race” once in a while in the office.

Visit zoo or good parks sometimes instead of big malls and cinema halls. Companies are going out of the way in organizing employee engagement activities which is welcome.

Even though you might be cutting a sorry figure at drawing and sketching, try your hand at this art. Or pick up drawing books and fill them with colours. Your mind will feel as light as air.

Try to recollect the times when as a child you used to feel instant pity on the needy. Its time to rekindle those feelings. Visit orphanage or old age homes and see for yourself how there is a life beyond all the artificiality of materialism. The peace of mind achieved after that will be incomparable to any spa or head massage in a parlour. (Not that you don’t need the latter. Go ahead).

Pamper yourself once every week or fortnight by buying little gifts for yourself or treating yourself with your favourite dish in a restaurant with your family or friends. This will be the prize for being good throught out the week.

Keep pets. Playing or spending time with them rejuvenates.

Reconnect

Call up your old school and college friends. Try to find some gossip (light hearted and harmless ones)

Don’t forget your parents. As a child you were most dependent on them and whatever you are today is because of your own efforts plus their faith in you. Back to present

There are just two things you need to do to enjoy life

1. Keep your laptop and mobile away once a week
2. Take a day off your work religiously for revisiting your childhood innocence and fun. It will be infectious and embosom you thoroughly till the time you form a habit that will transform your personality altogether.

Don’t let the child in you die as you grow up and climb ladders of success. Ask yourself a question- what if I have just 1 day to live?

How would you like to spend this last day on earth? Spend your leisure in the same way.

Always remember the poem recited during childhood-

“Jack and Jill

Went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water

Jack fell down and broke his crown

And Jill came tumbling after”

Consider the hill to be the pinnacle of success and the water, a part of success out of which you went to fetch your share. If a balance is not maintained, you too would surely come down tumbling and the pain would be greater- stress, strained relationship, conflicting lifestyle, health problems and so on. Wake up and give your life a new meaning before its too late.

(This article is inspired from somebody real and I salute her for personifying everything that has been mentioned here. Her life is a testimony to this fact.)