Physical activities are both fun and good for your health. Among many advantages there are:

• increasing your life quality,
• releasing stress and anxiety,
• decreasing blood pressure,
• forging character,
• improving sleep,
• increasing stamina, immunity and your energy level.

This positive impact on your health will also directly increase your savings. According to The Physician and Sportsmedicine journal, $330 per year is the average cost in direct medical expenses per each physically inactive person.

As a bonus you may also get leaner and fitter. Investing time in physical activities looks like a very promising idea at almost no risk level (watch out for injuries).

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My favorite physical activities are:

• Martial Arts – I have kung fu classes twice a week with instructor and as much as possible I practise with my friends or alone.
• Weight Lifting at Gym – usually I do it four times a week
• Jogging.
• Swimming.

Currently I don’t perform jogging and swimming. Martial arts trainings give me quite enough cardio, but in future I would definitely love to enjoy also those two activities. I did a lot of swimming and running while I was at the University and I must admit they were giving me a great physical and mental boost.

What are your favorite physical activities?

One of my readers, Wesoly Terrorysta translated my post about food habits to Polish and published it on his blog (of course with my permission). He added his own opinion in his post. In general he agreed with all points except the last one, which is:

Sleep more. You don’t eat or spend money then.

I definitely don’t have the feeling that I have to defense my advice, but this made me into short reflection mode.

First of all, this last point was mainly for fun. One of my former co-workers was a big fan of shopping. He always spent a lot of money this way. In order to decrease expenditures, he tried to apply two rules:

1. Work a lot of time at office.
2. Sleep a lot.

Whether you work or sleep, you don’t spend money. Sounds funny, doesn’t it? Of course he didn’t take this approach 100% seriously.

I liked it so much that when I was writing my post about food habits, I decided to add this one as a final point. That’s it.

Sleep more. You don’t eat or spend money then.

But there is a lot of truth in this point. Many people sleep not enough time. This is really bad for health and in future it can cost them a lot of money.

Another point is that I’m much more productive after calm, long, rejuvenating sleep. It is very important for me to sleep well and enough time, especially as I do a lot of workouts almost everyday.

Before sleep, it is good to slightly decrease temperature in your sleeping room. Turn down your heating. This helps to fall asleep easier and you also save money. When you sleep, you don’t use lights, computer and TV, so you are also saving money on electricity.

Last but not least, if you have any source of passive income, you simply earn when you sleep. Amazing.

Probably, there are even more interesting advantages related to sleeping. One thing for sure, I hate when I have to start a new day after sleeping not enough hours.

Good night.

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We often complain that we don’t have enough time. We don’t have enough time to read a book, exercise, start own website, write a post or satisfy spouse (or lover).

Sometimes, we use stupid excuses to avoid being creative and/or productive. But sometimes we are simply not organized and our time management is poor. One idea that can help is to identify and eliminate (or at least, reduce) timewasters.

How to identify them? Track time of your daily activities for a week. Simple. On the end of week, sum up all values and look for most time-consuming activities that don’t bring you any serious value.

…and no, my blog is not a timewaster. It brings you value, isn’t it?

Let’s don’t waste more time and go to the point. Below are my Top 3 timewasters:

1. TV

I’m constantly decreasing number of minutes in front of TV, but it still wastes too much of my time. Since today, I want to watch no more than four hours per week. Just three Polish shows and sometimes random financial news.

2. Internet

This one is really tough. I think that a lot of time I spend in network is definitely not wasted. But I have to reduce amount of time I dedicate to:

• different social media, especially Digg and StumbleUpon,
• dropping cards on Entrecard,
• reading different forum, random blogs and my things in my RSS reader (I have to reduce my subscriptions),
• chating.

Is watching porn a timewaster?

3. Sunbathing

I love my garden. I can sit a lot of time there doing nothing. Of course I prefer practicing kung-fu or reading a book in the garden, but it doesn’t change too much.

Now, there is a lot of sun out there. Therefore, sunbathing is currently my favorite ‘garden’ activity.

photo credit: Waka Jawaka

I’m pretty sure that in case of TV and Internet I will improve, but I honestly don’t expect I will reduce my time sunbathing. I’m pretty sure, that time saved on TV and Internet will be spent on sunbathing. Haha….

Happy Easter.

I wish Happy Easter to all my readers.

Traditionaly, I enjoy this time with my family.

Yesterday, I was with Easter Basket in church, to bless food with holy water.

My Easter Basket with butter lamb inside.

Butter Lamb.

This morning, we started day with best wishes and Easter breakfast.

My Easter breakfast.

Unfortunately, Easter Bunny was too fast and I didn’t catch him on the picture.