Enjoy your sense of sight with painting or photographing foliage, flowers before frost, and the deeper blue sky. A fun time of getting used to playing or racing to finish outdoor projects before it gets too dark.
Gather up all of your unfinished indoor projects and finish them before starting new ones…but have fun while picking out the new ones. Use the enthusiasm for starting the new projects as motivation to finish the old ones.Try hard not to have more than three projects going at once.
A dazzling time of year. Color everywhere. A delight for the eyes. Very stimulating for those with a dominant sense of sight. Your eyes stimulate your brain. Plus, the fun of the social season is irrestable to your spirit. The combination means you have more creative ideas than usual, while having fun.
Those with a dominant sense of sight need to sleep deeply enough to dream. Your body needs to replenish itself at the REM level of sleep. Your mind is asleep, resting. Even sports cars have to stop and refuel. You need to eat well, and often.
This level of creativity uses your brain more than usual. Your brain uses 20% of all energy your body produces. If your brain is at full speed enthusiasm, you’re going to be hungry more often. Choose wisely. A fistful of nuts, fruit of any kind, nibbling on whole grain crackers, or anything that is easy to digest. A heavy meal will cloud your mind, slow your momentum and reduce the fun around you.
Avoid processed, fatty and/or sugary foods. It’s not worth it.
Processed food makes you absorb fewer vitamins. If your liver doesn’t have enough of the right vitamins and plant fats/oils, you cannot produce happy hormones. Without happy hormones, your stress goes up. When your stress goes up, your enthusiasm goes down. Easily avoided.
Too much animal fat depletes your stamina. The concentrated calories are instantly stored as fat. Everyone needs more fats and oils when it gets cold. Autumn is not winter. You don’t need this kind of concentrated calories and protein yet. Fish salmon, chicken, lean red meats, and lean pork. You DO need a lot of plant fats and oils like avocados and nuts. Plant fats contain the good cholesterol that your liver needs to produce the stress-busting happy hormones.
You also need more dairy because of Vitamin D. There is less sunlight. It’s why we instinctively crave more cheese and butter when it starts getting darker. Not all cheeses are created equal. Denser cheeses are better for you in the winter. Autumn cheeses should be more easily digested. If you can bend a wedge of it, you can easily digest it.
The key to enthusiastic creativity is keeping your liver healthy. Happy hormones are like the fountain of youth. Happy hormones are what make you feel in love with being alive, young. Eating a bit better is a lot easier than getting old.
Step away from the sugar and caffeine for staying at full stamina and enthusiasm. You don’t need it. Both deplete more vitamins than you can spare. When the sugar/caffeine buzz wears off, you are more tired than when you started…because of vitamin loss. You need stamina, not stimulants.
Stamina comes from less stress, more play. More amusement with life. Autumn is a very amusing season for all five of your senses. Its not hot anymore, but not cold yet. Physical play is more fun because you can’t overheat. The colors and blowing leaves of autumn inspire and motivate your mind. Traditional foods like pumpkin pie spice, apples, soups and bread are all back in your diet. The smell of woodsmoke, cider presses and leaves are in the air. Hearing stories at social gatherings…and being quiet enough to hear yourself think…all create stamina.
