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#MakingTime Day 7

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Your Day 7 Making Time challenge: For 7 minutes… go for a walk around the block without your phone 

These days we’re plugged in 24/7. Between texts, emails, regular old phone calls, and notifications from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, keeping up with everyone and everything can feel like a full-time job.

Can you remember the last time you switched off? The last time you went 24 hours, 12 hours, even just a few hours, without checking your phone?

“… Stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” – Leo Tolstoy

For the full prompt, plus a daily time-saving tip and other inspiration into your inbox, sign up for the full Making Time series (a 31-day free challenge to make more time for the things you love).  Follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook for more thought-provoking inspiration!

#MakingTime Day 6

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Your Day 6 Making Time challenge: For 6 minutes… dance like crazy to your favourite music!

Dancing is incredibly good for your soul:

  • It instantly enhances your mood
  • It’s a way to escape your mind
  • You become completely present in your body
  • And it provides a boost of positive energy

So today’s the day to turn up the tunes and go wild! As the age-old saying goes… ‘Dance like no-one’s watching!’ For six whole minutes let your body move in the silliest ways, invent some new moves or imagine you’re on stage giving the performance of a lifetime! And if your favourite song isn’t six minutes long, use it as an excuse to dance to two tunes. Go with the flow and have fun, laugh at yourself and enjoy it. We promise it will make you feel amazing.

For the full prompt, plus a daily time-saving tip and other inspiration into your inbox, sign up for the full Making Time series (a 31-day free challenge to make more time for the things you love).  Follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook for more thought-provoking inspiration!

#MakingTime Day 5

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There’s nothing like sorting through your post and finding a beautiful postcard hidden amongst your bills. In an age where it’s quicker and easier to email, Instagram, Facebook, text, Skype or Snapchat, we’re on a mission to bring good old snail mail back!

Your Day 5 Making Time challenge: For 5 minutes… write a postcard to someone

A postcard is a quick and easy way to let someone know they are remembered. And unlike a letter, it’s short and sweet! ‘Wish you were here’ or ‘Thinking of you’ or ‘I miss you. Let’s meet up soon…’ are words enough if they’re from the heart. Even a few scribbled words will mean a lot to the person who receives them.

For the full prompt, plus a daily time-saving tip and other inspiration into your inbox, sign up for the full Making Time series (a 31-day free challenge to make more time for the things you love).  Follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook for more thought-provoking inspiration!

#MakingTime Day 4

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As we hurry through our busy lives it can be hard to tune out the noise. Every now and then it’s important to stop and ask yourself: ‘What makes me happy?’ and ‘What do I want to offer the world?’ Sometimes you just need to pause, breathe and listen.

Your Day 4 Making Time challenge: For 4 minutes… Close your eyes and breathe deeply

For the full prompt, plus a daily time-saving tip and other inspiration into your inbox, sign up for the full Making Time series (a 31-day free challenge to make more time for the things you love).  Follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook for more thought-provoking inspiration! 

Do What You Love interview – Frances Booth

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This month Do What You Love is on a mission to make time; time to do things which refresh and energise us, time to stretch our minds and our bodies, and time to do things that make us laugh or think. So, who better to help us make simple changes and better manage our time than one of the UK’s leading experts in wellbeing and productivity in the digital age… Frances Booth.  

Frances is an award-winning writer and she also helps businesses and individuals manage distractions, achieve balance, stop procrastinating, and deal with digital tension.

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#MakingTime Day 3

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So many magazines, so little time… did you know that in the UK alone more than 2,600 different magazines are printed each year, not to mention online magazines? So why then, when there’s so much choice out there, do we find ourselves picking up our old favourites time and time again? Mostly it’s because our time is precious and we like what we know so it’s easier to stick with it that.

Your Day 3 Making Time challenge: For 3 minutes… read an article in a magazine you don’t normally read

Today’s the day to step out of your comfort zone and read something different. We’re not suggesting you spend hours in the newsagent flipping through every magazine on the shelf (although what a cool way to spend a day!) Rather we challenge you to pick up a magazine that you wouldn’t usually read – your partner’s photography magazine, the regional glossy in the local coffee shop or the interior magazine that’s gathering dust on your friend’s coffee table – and spend three minutes reading any article you like. Better still, open it at random and read that page.

Who knows what you’ll discover, what interesting conversations it could spark and what exciting thoughts and opportunities could come of it?

For the full prompt, plus a daily time-saving tip and other inspiration into your inbox, sign up for the full Making Time series (a 31-day free challenge to make more time for the things you love).  Follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook for more thought-provoking inspiration! 

#MakingTime Day 2

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Your Day 2 Making Time challenge: For 2 minutes… write a haiku

Forget boring work emails, today we challenge you to write creatively… bring on the two-minute haiku challenge!

The haiku is a simple and powerful form of Japanese poetry that captures a single image or a moment in time. It’s always written over three lines and the structure is based on syllables: there are five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. Here’s an example by haiku master Matsuo Basho:

An old silent pond…

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

For the full prompt, plus a daily time-saving tip and other inspiration into your inbox, sign up for the full Making Time series (a 31-day free challenge to make more time for the things you love).  Follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook for more thought-provoking inspiration! 

#MakingTime Day 1

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Your Day 1 Making Time challenge: For 1 minute… listen to the sound of water

Ocean waves, babbling brooks, freshwater streams and trickling fountains… there’s nothing as soothing as the sound of water. Water is essential to life. It symbolises purity, clarity and calm, and hearing it flow freely in its natural surroundings can be incredibly cleansing. As well relaxing our mind, on a subconscious level flowing water speaks to our soul and reminds us of our very existence. It’s a great form of meditation.

For the full prompt, plus a daily time-saving tip and other inspiration into your inbox, sign up for the full Making Time series (a 31-day free challenge to make more time for the things you love).  Follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook for more thought-provoking inspiration! We’d love to hear what you listened to in your ‘Making Time’ minute today, and how you felt afterwards…

31 ways to make more time

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Often we get so caught up in our day-to-day routines, the chaos of family life, and the demands we put on ourselves and those others put on us, that we forget to make time for the things we love. If we do the same old thing day-in-day-out, the days blend into each other, weeks become months and the precious years disappear.

Today we are starting a 31-day challenge to make time – starting with a tiny amount of time – to do something which refreshes and energises, stretches the mind or body, makes us laugh or makes us think.

We provide a daily prompt into your inbox with an idea of something to try. With each day of Making Time you will be challenged to find an extra minute, so one minute on Day 1, two minutes on Day 2, three minutes on Day 3 and so on. If you find yourself ‘too busy’ to carve out the few minutes required for each challenge, ask yourself whether you really have your priorities right! You need time for yourself, and we hope this challenge will help you make it.

Throughout the 31 days we will also include daily inspiration and a simple but effective time-saving tip to help you create more precious minutes. Once you have got into the habit of finding pockets of time in your day, you will be able to use those for more of the things you love.

Want to join us? Making Time starts today, and it’s free. Sign up here and get going right away!

Beth