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Drop those less important things out of your day so you actually have more life in your life! Somehow we feel that if we do not have our free time planned from early morning to late at night we are wasting our life! The thoughts below might be an example of a typical weekend for a lot of people these days:

* Friday night after work, it is the weekend! Get home from work, clean up, change and go out with friends to a local coffee bar to unwind and relax.

* Saturday morning, after not being able to sleep from such a large coffee, get up early and hit the bicycle or running trails. Get in a long healthy ride, or long run before it gets too warm outside.

* Saturday afternoon, zip over to the mall and do a little shopping for some new shoes, and maybe some clothes. Leave the mall and make a quick dash to the grocery store and pick up a few things to eat, and some energy drinks.

* Saturday night, take a quick shower, and dress up to go out with your friends at the local hotspot.

* Sunday morning, go to church, or sleep in until about nine or ten, no later, lots to do today.

* Sunday afternoon, get on over to the book store, pay some bills, and then spend some time house cleaning, don’t forget to wash the car.

* Sunday evening, perhaps do those few work things you brought home on Friday so they are ready for Monday morning. Go to bed late because there is so much to do.

Monday morning arrives in a flash we claw our way out bed and go to our jobs, grab our favorite caffeine laden brew along the way, and compare notes with our work friends about what we did on the weekend. And we wonder why everyone looks so tired, and burnt out, and it is just Monday morning!

It is even worse when you are a family, because you then have three or more schedules to juggle around on the weekend, and the times and places rarely have anything in common. So parents end up hurrying their children through one activity to get another child to their activity without being too late.

Not too long ago, there was another type of typical weekend. Saturday was spent doing the chores, and other sundries that needed to be done for the week. Sunday was a day of rest and relaxation, where families spent slow time together often in their own back yards. Children and adults read books just for fun, and there were picnics with homemade food. Families spent lazy sundays with family and friends sometimes just enjoying sitting on a blanket in the shade at a park and watching the kids play.

In our endeavor to add more life to our life, we lost the quality of life somewhere. Our lives are now jam packed with quantity but very lacking in quality. We communicate over cell phones, text messages, and email. Parents and their children are strangers sharing a house while doing individual activities. We no longer really know our friends, just what we do together. And we wonder why we feel the way we do most days, and why life became such a drudge to get through. Our attention span, like our thinking is about too short, and we have little original thought any more. Really life is getting quite dull for us.

It is time to slow down and enjoy the quality of life. Drop those things that simply fill up time do nothing else for you. Having a free hour each day to just sit and look out the window, hand write a note to a friend, or even daydream; you will find your life changing, and more fulfilling. There is no winner at the end of our race when death stops by to take us away. There are no extra years added to our lives as we race through the time we have. There is however great value in having some quiet time to let your spirit loose and grow and bring about ideas of things you haven’t thought of in years, if ever. Besides you owe it to yourself. You work too hard all week long!

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