For those of you living for the moment, you are about to lose 60 whole minutes come Sunday when Daylight-saving time strikes once again. This may throw you off a bit if you are one to maximize every second, minute, and hour you are afforded in this tenuous life. And while I can't offer you any secrets for recapturing this lost time, I can share some thoughts, compliments of professional organizer Linda Richards of Organize and More, on how you might compensate for Sunday's lost hour.
Think about this:
- Go to bed 15 minutes earlier and get up 15 minutes earlier starting a few days before the time change.
- Move any important meetings to later in the week so you body isn't as tired.
- Snack on healthy foods such as fruits and nuts to replenish energy.
- Shorten your to-do list to your top three to five priorities.
- Print out a copy of your calendar and appointments for March and make sure your computer has a patch to handle the earlier time change this year.
Just before my chemotherapy for breast cancer started -- when I was fantastically frightened by the toxic drugs that were about to drip into my veins -- I was told by doctors, nurses, survivors, friends that I would be just fine. I was young and strong and tough. I would easily tolerate the beating my body was about to take. This is what I was told and actually came to believe myself. I had no other choice really than to approach chemotherapy with a fighter mentality. And so I did. And I did pretty well for my first three doses of Adriamycin and Cytoxan -- given every two weeks instead of three in a dose-dense fashion -- followed by one injection of Neulasta 24 hours later to maintain normal blood counts. And then something happened. And I did not end up tolerating the chemotherapy my gut told me was a scary endeavor.
