Timing Is Everything!

Do you ever think, "Oh, I'll just check my email, it'll only take a second," or "Oh, I just need to look up this price, or find that one article real quick . . ." and then look at the clock forty minutes later? What took "only a second," ate up more time than a haircut or an exercise workout!

This happens to me all the time. This morning the brilliant idea struck me to buy a kitchen timer to set next to my computer. Then the even better idea followed: there must be something like that on the Net and it's free!

Here it is: the simplest of all timers. Just keep this website handy, mark your minutes, and the timer will go off as you're surfing in another window.

http://e.ggtimer.com/

Guess what?
Click on the special timer for "Morning." Start the countdown to exercise! Let's hop to it! Run in place, Jumping jacks, sit ups and more! Exercise is a one of the best things you can do for yourself during grief.

Loneliness and isolation are some of the most difficult challenges for widows. Sometimes we do waste a whole day on the computer flitting from one site to another, playing a round of one game after another, and checking for messages constantly---any sort of acknowledgement that someone knows we exist---that we matter.

But computer time alone won't resolve loneliness. Tomorrow we'll look at constructive ways to use our time for actual solutions to loneliness. Until then, let's use our time wisely today, ♥ ferree