Sudoku and Hot Showers

I love the idea of attaching something productive with something you already do that you may feel some guilt around.  I have a client who could never seem to make time to say these wonderful affirmations she had written.  She also wanted to stop feeling guilty about taking insanely long showers. 

So, she bought herself some bathtub crayons (you get them in the baby section) and began writing her affirmations on the shower wall while cleaning up for the day.  She began to notice fantastic insights and ideas coming to her in the shower, and she had a great way of writing them down.  Decorative, fun, and productive!

I have a recent example from my own life.  My husband is taking a class on prayer and blessing.  He comes home and tells me all about it, during which time I think about how there’s no way I can find a peaceful moment to squeeze something like prayer into my life.  But, I do have a guilty pleasure of doing Sudoku whenever there is a quiet moment.  I have books of them.  (I’m also a big logic puzzle addict.) 

So, I decided to assign a meaning to each number in the box.  I get nine.   I listed my business, my home, important people and communities, and so on.  Now, when I am solving the puzzle, using the meaning of whatever number I’m working on, I say thanks and offer blessings to that particular aspect of my life.  Not only am I finding a way to fit prayer into my life, I’m also cruising through the “Very Hard” puzzles with total ease and grace.

If you notice, in both of these examples, not only did we find a way to make time for positive intentions, we also found away to relieve guilt from indulging in a daily activity.  Killing two birds with one stone.  That’s what I call effective multitasking.  Now it’s time to apply this to you.

Take a moment to think about what you know you need to make time for in your life: affirmations, prayer, gratitude, intention, visioning, breathing.  Now, how can you attach that activity to something you already do every day?  Something menial that you barely think about or that you feel guilty for indulging in?  

Set up a reminder to get you started.  It only takes three weeks of integrating activities to establish your new habit.  Just think, you are less than a month away from having positive thinking being a natural part of your daily life.

Let me know how you multitask in your life.  Email Jessica Sabatini from www.the360woman at jessica@the360woman.com