Journaling Tips and Tricks 4

Use a non-book journal for daily memories. How gorgeous is this?

Found on Pinterest, but the link provided was blocked, so I don't know the real source.

Journaling: Tips and Tricks 3

From Pinterest, originally from http://www.kmckaydesigns.com/projects/journaling-tips-printable-journaling-cards.html

Saturday Six - The Letter D

1. D is for Day: Which day of the week would you like to have two of?
I don't really have a regular schedule, so there isn't one specific best day, but it wouldn't be Monday. No matter what, Mondays just carry a funk with them--a day to be motivated, but also a day to be stuck getting back to work for the week.


2. D is for Drama: What is your all-time favorite television drama?
I don't believe in single favorites of anything. They're limiting and world-shrinking. Always have more favorites!

Straight-up dramas? I don't really watch all that many. I like shows that are lighter than that, or that have something speculative mixed in. So I like Castle, The Mentalist, Person of Interest, Sherlock, Fringe, Hell On Wheels and Bones. And more. I have literally dozens of favorite shows. If you bring in ones no longer running, there's also Firely, Farscape, SG1, Remington Steele, and I could go on.


3. D is for Dog: What breed of dog that you've never owned would you most like to?
I think shiba-inus are adorable, like tiny huskies. Any of the wolfdogs are great, gorgeous things, but I'd have to have the land to let them roam because they are not inside dogs. Jack Russels are adorable, and I especially like ones that are only half JR. I love corgies and yorkies.


4. D is for Drink: What single drink do you drink most often?
Tea. Without a doubt. Maybe water, but I think that's both dull and a tie. I drink so much tea. And I love it, and I'm sad I had to cut back because of caffeine sensitivities.

If we're talking alcoholic drinks, that'd probably be vodka-and-cran. Or variations thereof.


5. D is for Dessert: What is your single favorite dessert?
I love desserts. I'd eat them instead of dinner a lot of the time. I like the creamy, rich sort--key lime pie, cheesecake, tiramisu. Or the gourmet cupcake kind. Or just cake--my favorites are black forest, double-chocolate, german chocolate, and boston cream pie.


6. D is for Dime: What is the last thing you remember being able to buy for 10c or less?
Dude, that hasn't been the thing in decades. Probably back when I was a kid and there was that penny candy store across the street from my elementary school. They had these little chocolate cup things in brightly-colored foil cups, and they were a penny a piece. I loved them. They also had flavored sugar--like bulk pixie sticks--that you could buy by weight, and you'd just hand the guy whatever change you had and he'd give you that much of the sugar. Mmmm, childhood.


What are your answers to these questions, lovelies?



From here: http://www.patrickkphillips.com/2012/09/29/saturday-six-442/

A visual guide to Introverts

Accurate.

(from: http://holykaw.alltop.com/a-visual-guide-to-introverts-comic)

Semi-Daily Question: Which Fall TV season premieres are you looking forward to? Or has your show already started?

From That's My Answer!: Which Fall TV season premieres are you looking forward to? Or has your  show already started?

Oh, man. This week is crazy with shows I'm looking forward to. I review TV for a number of sites, and it's always hard to keep up when they're all airing, and it's especially hard when I have school deadlines at the same time as everything is returning!

I've already seen Castle and Bones come back, as well as Hawaii Five-0 and Grimm. I review the first two, and watch the second two when I can. I caught the Mindy Project, NCIS and NCIS:LA last night, and I have to catch up on Revolution, HIMYM, and 2 Broke Girls. I'm really, really looking forward to Person of Interest and The Mentalist and Fringe coming back, and I'm even a little excited about Elementary, even though I don't really like Johnny Lee Miller as an actor, and I'm such a fan of the BBC Sherlock that I had to get over it when they announced this one. But still--it's Sherlock, right? There's also Big Bang Theory, and I'm interested in Last Resort--mostly to see how they can possibly keep the story going when it's a story of a face-off. And I might catch 666 Park Ave, just to see how Terry O'Quinn continues to take over every show on TV. And there's Doctor Who, too, though that one is about to go on break, right after it breaks my heart.

And I'm looking forward to Supernatural and Arrow and Beauty And The Beast, but those aren't for a few weeks yet.

The thought of being excited about only one show feels way alien to me. I mean, I love these shows (the ones I've seen, anyway) for their stories and their characters and their potentials for love, and if it hooks me, I want to know what happens next. I want to watch them all every week, but that's impossible--especially on Mondays and Thursdays, when everything is on. I have to decide which ones I'll review and keep up with, and which ones I'll catch up with later.

So what's you're answer?

Wednesday Worksheets: Submissions Tracker, Shopping List and Gratitude Journal

This is part of a series of worksheets to help you organize your life! Click the tag for more!

This week we have:

• Submissions Tracker: This can be used for stories, novels, articles, or, really, anything else that needs to be submitted, because it's a very straight-forward sheet. There's space for the date, the item being submitted, who it was sent to, and how long they take to read it, as well as to note a pay rate and whether or not it was accepted. You can use a sheet for multiple projects going out at a time, or you can use a whole sheet for multiple subs of one project.
• Shopping List: A nice itemized and totally open shopping list divided by Staples, Fruits and Veggies, Meats, Dairy, Proteins, Canned and Dry goods, Starches, and Household goods.
• Gratitude Journal: Some people note their gratitudes daily, others just when they need to remember something, but this sheet will help with both. There's several cells per sheet, with space for the date and for three things you're feeling grateful for. 

If there are any worksheets you would like to see, drop me a line or a comment, and I'll see what I can do!

Self-censorship is giving someone else your life

(from: http://fjordlord.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/the-good-the-bad-and-the-silent-when-the-media-wont-tell-the-whole-story)

There's a difference between knowing when to keep your mouth shut and removing parts of your life, and we're talking about the second one here. It could be a political issue, but really I'm talking about the personal level: say you just broke up with someone or lost a good friend to a bad fight or were fired from a job. If you go back through your history--all your pictures and belongings and blog posts and mementos--and remove everything that reminds you of that thing you lost, you're letting them win. You're willingly handing over a part of your own life, and you're therefore giving it up, declaring that your own experience doesn't matter and isn't important enough to keep, to metabolize, to make sense of.

Sounds dumb, doesn't it?

It's a symptom of victim mentality, really. If your own experiences don't matter enough to keep and to learn from, does anything you do or say even belong to you? And if you don't own your own mind, your own past, who does?

So don't do it. Don't excise the painful parts. Don't give up your own life because it hurts. The sore parts are the parts that define what we do in the future, and who we are when we come out of it. Instead, learn from them. Work through them. Feel the pain and feel your way out of it. Speak out against it happening again, to yourself or to others. Own it. Let yourself define your experience, and not let the reaction to the experience define you.

Neatest things I saw this week (last week)

1. Rainbow Roses

(From here: http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/rainbow-roses-are-for-real.html)

Actual roses, with rainbow ink infused in their stems while they grow. I wish they'd actually grow like this naturally--I'd buy, like, fifteen rosebushes!

2. A Plethora of Galaxy Nails

Over on Ashley is PolishAddicted.

I love the Galaxy Nails thing--it's my favorite nail trick I haven't tried yet!

3. Firefalls!

This is Horestail Falls, a seasonal waterfall in Yosemite that lights up like it's on fire only a few days in February each year. This, and more pictures of it, are detailed on Kuriositas: http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/09/horsetailfall.html

Links from last week

Geek: The Geekiest Girls You Know blog

Culture: Why Can't We Sell Charity Like We Sell Perfume?

Life: Study shows that home birth is fine for low-risk pregnancies

Geek: Doctor Who manicures! (make sure you check the links at the bottom, too!)

Geek: Galaxy Nails (also with more in the links at the end)

Happiness: Seven Must-Read Books on the Art and Science of Happiness

Happiness: Rules for Consistent Happiness

Happiness: Top 8 Ways to Wake Up Ready & Raring to Go

Productivity: What Successful People Do The First Hour Of Their Work Day

Monday Inspiration: Brene Brown

"In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen — really seen.” 

~ Brené Brown

Babysitter Tales: Acorn

I took A2 with me to the bus stop to wait for A1. I'm starting to really like the walk-- it's only maybe two blocks, but that's a long way for a two-year-old to walk, so we walk slow and he looks at a lot of things. It's so strange being with someone so young--everything really is new for him!

We've developed this habit that we'll get to the bus stop, say hi to all the other parents and younger siblings, and then wander another block up so he can see the flowers. He sticks his face right in there and snuffles them like a puppy, and touches all the petals, and sometimes picks one or two. And then we wander back and he picks up interesting rocks to throw at the shrubs or to line up in neat little lines while we wait.

This time, while we were there, he found an acorn. A big fat one (not the one above, but one like it!), more than an inch long. He loved it, and carried it around while we waited. I've never seen acorns so big--Florida acorns are all tiny and hard and round, and even the bigger ones are sort of lean and narrow, but this one was like the iconic acorn, fat and stout and big. I bet it had lots of acorn meat in it.

A1 came and he sort of hugs everyone and then sees what the baby is carrying in his sticky little hands. He found the acorn and asked what it was, which was startling; I forget that five isn't that much older than two, really, and things are still new to him, too. I explained how it's a tree-seed, that there was a little baby sprout in there that would come out and grow into a little tree.

A1 declared "We need to plant this."

So we went home, and as soon as he'd put up his school stuff and gotten a drink of water, we found some sturdy sticks and dug a hole in the ground, and planted it. He watered it from his own prized Avengers cup--and he's not one for sharing, so that's even bigger a deal than you know--and covered it back up.

Every say since then, he comes home from school and goes to that corner of the yard behind the basketball hoop to check on it, and waters it with his own water if it looks dry.

I think if ever an acorn had a chance to be a tree, it's that one.

Shonagonisms: Actors who are secretly english

• Hugh Laurie - House
• Andrew Lincoln - Walking Dead
• Lauren Cohan - Walking Dead
• Ed Westwick - Gossip Girl
• Stephen Moyer - True Blood
• Josh Bowman - Revenge
• Andrew Garfield - The Amazing Spiderman
• Owain Yeoman - The Mentalist
• Damian Lewis - Homeland
• Idris Elba - The Wire 
• Anna Friel - Pushing Daisies
• Michelle Ryan - Bionic Woman (flop that it was)
• Gary Oldman - Almost every movie he'd done
• Jamie Bamber - Battlestar Galactica
• Jason Isaacs - Awake
• Jake Weber - Medium
• Bob Hoskans - Half his movies
• Sophia Miles - Moonlight
• Tim Roth - Lie to Me
• Henry Cavill - Superman
• Rufus Sewell - Eleventh Hour (remember that?)
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Without A Trace

Bonus: Other non-Americans

• Alan Cumming - The Good Wife - Scottish
• Simon Baker - The Mentalist - Australian
• Alex O'Laughlin - Hawaii Five-0 - Australian
• Tammin Sursok - Pretty Little Liars - Australian
• Kevin McKidd - Grey's Anatomy - Scottish
• Ryan Kwanten - True Blood - Australian
• Liam Hemsworth - Hunger Games / Expendables 2 - Australian
• Rose Byrne - Damages - Australian
• Anna Torv - Fringe - Australian
• Christian Bale - Batman / Et al - Welsh
• Ioan Gruffudd - Fantastic Four / Ringer - Welsh
• Anthony LaPaglia - Without A Trace - Australian
• Jason O'Mara - ABC's Life on Mars / Terra Nova - Irish

Wednesday Worksheets: Weekly Work Tracker, Yearly Events, Subscriptions, Critique Page

This is part of a weekly series to help you life a more organized life. Click the tag for more sheets!

This week, we have:

• Weekly Work Tracker: A cell for each day of the week, perfect for those who have one job (or, if you have more than one, a sheet per job, and a weeks' worth of info for each). There's date, day, time in and out, total hours, total pay, and a section for notes in each cell. At the end, there's an open cell for reflection--the use of which is up to you!
• Yearly Events: A one-page, at-a-glance grid to write a quick note to yourself about things that happen once a year: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, celestial events, yearly fees, whatever. There's a column for each month of the year, and there's 31 cells in each column, so you get the whole year on one page. There's not a whole lot of space, but it's enough for a year-at-a-glance!
• Subscriptions: A chart to track your subscriptions! There's the usual date, name and cost columns, but I've added a column to note the kind, too--magazine, service, delivery, whatever you have a subscription to!
• Critique Sheet: There's lots of times when you're asked to crit something--a work, an idea, an event. When you are, you can use this sheet, that helps you outline strengths, weaknesses, and offer advice. Pretty straightforward, but a great place to start.

Sheets are free to download, and if you use them, link back to here! If there are any that you'd like to see me make, just drop a comment and I'll add them to the list!

Monday Inspiration: Bill Copeland

"Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."

--- Bill Copeland

Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_inspirational.html#YSfWMVtVAfT5Uoph.99

Links

Happiness: Seven Tips for Finding Your Tribe

Happiness: Meet Your Inner Pilot-Light

Spirituality: Have You Sold Out the Feminine to be More Spiritual?

Life: Stop Searching and What You Are Seeking Will Find You

Life: The Three Basics to a Centered Life

Health: Over 100 Superfoods for a Super You!

Life: Do It Now! Fix It Later!

Geek: An affordable* Officially Licenced Doctor Who** Scarf!

Geek: Google Glass is the first step to a real Heads-Up Display!

Happiness: Need Motivation? Maybe not!

Happiness: Five Reasons Not to Have Kids***


*if you consider $50 affordable, but since most of the hand-made ones run for, like, $200, I think it is.
**As in, from the show Doctor Who, not from the guy named Doctor Who, because that doesn't exist.
***Judging by the comments, a pretty divisive argument, and one based in mostly material issues, but something to think about. I do want kids--but I also want to be able to raise them, and these are five points that need to be thought of, I think, in a life as financially confined as mine...

Wednesday Worksheets: Dreams, Travel, Obligations and Bonus for being late

This is part of a series of weekly posts featuring worksheets to help you organize your life and live it better! To see more, click on the Wednesday Worksheets tag!

This week has been one of those weeks, and so I didn't get to post these yesterday. Since I'm a day late, I'm giving you four worksheets instead of the usual three!

This week, we have:

• Dream Journal: You write out your dream in the middle space, in whatever order it comes to your recall, then, in the spaces on either side, you note where you missed a detail, or where an image shows up that you've dreamed before, or what you think may be the meaning or the cause of a part of the dream. Then, at the bottom, I've given a little space for musing on the dream to see what meaning or sense you can make of it. 
• This one works best if you periodically return to these pages and add notes as you have more dreams and more knowledge of your subconscious to help interpret.
• The point is to make a running and usable database of your own mind's interpretations so you know why you're dreaming--and to collect any inspirations and story ideas and whatever else you can get from them.
• Print out a stack of these and keep them and a pen close to your bed so you can always have them on hand!
• Travel Journal: There's space for an overview of what you meant to do in the day, then a large space for what actually happened (all your memories and stories go here), and at the bottom, space for you to make notes to yourself, to have a little reaction to the day's events, and a space for souvenirs--either actual things stuck to the page, like ticket stubs or whatever, or space to list what keepsakes you collected that day.
• It's made for a page a day; simply print out one for each day of your trip!
• Monthly Obligations: A straightforward listing of each day, with space to add bills, paydays, meetings, birthdays and anniversaries, parties, trips, appointments, and whatever else you need to remember on a month-view page!
• BONUS: In-Reading Notes: Sometimes as you're reading, there are things you want to copy down or make note of. Here, you can! At the top of the page is space for all the info so you can find or cite the book again, then a large open space for you to make annotations and copy out quotes or note pages, or whatever else you may need to keep. Then, at the bottom, a little space to give an overall impression of the book.
• This is great for research, too, since you can note arguments, quotes and the like easily.

So here are the downloads!

• Dream Journal
• Travel Journal
• Monthly Obligations Sheet
• In-Reading Notes

If there are any worksheets you'd like to see, leave a comment and I'll see what I can do!

Babysitter Tales: Leaves and Rocks

For the first few hours of babysitting duty today, I was watching only A2. When I got there, the back door was open, blocked with a baby gate, but he kept going over there and looking up at the trees, so I decided to let him go out. When we were there, he was showing me how to ride a motorcycle, soundeffects and all, he noticed all the leaves on the ground.

He asked "Was tha?" and I told him that they were leaves, and that they came from the trees over their deck. He thought it was hilarious that leaves fall, and he kept looking up at the ones still on the tree, laughing, and then looking at the ones on the ground and saying "Byebye!" when the brushed them off.

After crashing his bike a few times, and telling a spider to come down from it's web in a tone that implied it shouldn't have been up there to begin with, we went down to the back yard. Their house is on a hill, with the back yard much lower than the front yard, and we spent about an hour or so walking up and down the hill while the baby dug up rocks to throw. He loved the way the little ones rolled for ages, but he loved to heave the big ones even though they didn't go as far when he threw them.

After he started getting tired, he found a little place where the roots had made sort of a step on the hill, and he sat on it, and dug around at the rocks there. He handed some to me, saying they were for certain family members, and then threw them all away. Then he found one that had a shiny patch on it and gave it to me--when I had to put it down to use my hand for something, he picked it up and put it back into my hand and told me to hold it. Then he found a big square rock, about the size of a deck of cards, with a yellow side and a brown side and one end green with moss, and he loved it.

He sat right next to me, scootched forward so his feet were on top of mine, and told me some story that I couldn't understand at all, one that involved a lot of gesturing in all directions, pointing to his square rock, laughing and saying the few words I understand that he says--things like "Mommy" and "Daddy" and "Momom" and "Dadda"--and hitting the stones together, just the corners, and looking at how the minerals in them sparkle.

He brought the square rock back inside to show his parents; whatever that story was, it was important!

I'm amazed at how early the storytelling is kicking in!

Monday Inspiration: Harriet Tubman

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

-Harriet Tubman

Random Question: Which are the most beautiful things you can think about right now?

Found on Tumblr:

• The smell of kitty fur when she first comes inside on a cold day, and she's been in the shrubs
• Rosepetals just as they're unfolding
• Sunsets over the high, pointy peaks in Scotland, on a rare day without rain
• How sharp and clean everything looks in the winter, when the sun is out
• Babies, sleeping
• Victorian party dresses, all lace and beads
• Freshly baked anything
• An old friend's face, when you haven't seen them for a long time, especially when they smile at you
• New books, waiting to be read
• Old books, waiting to be read
• Fresh, clean new paper and a good pen
• A dainty teacup full of steaming tea, with a full teapot nearby
• David Tennant's hands (or, really, David Tennant)
• A row of perfume bottles, with the sun shining through the window on them
• A pile of presents, before they're open and they could still be anything
• Sharing something you love with someone you love, and them loving it
• Babies, laughing
• Almost anything written by Neil Gaiman
• Lon, running, evocative sentences, even when people tell me I should cut them
• The first tomatoes of the season, just turning red
• Rowan berries when there are no leaves
• The ocean, when you've been away for a long time
• The Cliffwalk in Rhode Island, in October, when the sun breaks through and lights up the water and the rocks and the air
• Old mahjongg tiles
• A comfy chair and a soft blanket on a cold day

Links: 9-8-2012

Science: Dark Galaxies of the Early Universe Spotted For the First Time: Galaxies from before stars -- how awesome is that?

Life: Stop Aging

Life: 10 Questions To Help You Stop Thinking and Start DOING

Food: Vintage Food Posters over on Two Men and a Little Farm -- ones that apply really well today, too!

Happiness: Gretchen Rubin's Happier At Home book giveaway!

Life: Should you combine your many passions or choose one? -- I love the decision-making help she gives here; I'm still on the fence whenever someone tells me not to combine, though she does say focus-and-then-add, which most of the other business advice doesn't say.

Happiness: A French Weekend -- David Liebovitz always makes me want to visit France.

Organization: Stop procrastinating with Unscheduling

Happiness: Find 'comfort foods' for your mind

Happiness: We Are What We Remember

Life: Cultivate A Shrine

Wednesday Worksheets: Goals, Brainstorming, Exercise

This post is part of an ongoing series where I post worksheets to help you organize and clarify your life--all aspects of it! Click the tag to see more! 

This week's worksheets are for Goal Planning, Brainstorming and Exercise Tracking!

1. The Goal Planner is for more long-term goals, and so is divided into sections for Monthly, One Year, and Five Year Goals. When you fill it out, make sure you put milestones--where do you want to be when you get to each of those time-frames? The Monthly one features each month of the year with a little space for each, great for New Years--but if you're starting now, just start where you are and either loop back to the top for the next year, or print a new page!
2. There are a million ways to brainstorm, but this is a good, open one that I like to use. First, write down everything you know already--all the details in your head. Once your mind is clear, switch to the Refinements section and see where you can expand and connect up ideas. The go to the Concrete Plans section and determine the next steps.
3. There's few things that are as empowering and as encouraging as actually seeing that you're actually making progress! This is a weekly tracker with space for six workouts a week, assuming you'll rest at least one day a week. At the top, there's space for weekly and monthly goals, and at the bottom a space to plan next week.

So have at em! The sheets are linked here:

• Goal Planning Worksheet
• Brainstorming Worksheet
• Exercise Tracking Worksheet

If there are any worksheets you'd like to see, contact me at pirategirljack at gmail dot com, and I'll see what I can do! Otherwise, I'll just continue to share the worksheets that I use and that have been useful for teaching me how to function like an organized adult!

Thought Question #916: When was the last time you did something for the first time?

(borrowed from: http://thoughtquestions.com/archives/3108 with all respect. All art and text there belongs to them.)

I don't think I can remember the last time I did anything big for the first time. I mean, two and a half years ago, I went back to school; it was my first time in gradschool, but it wasn't my first time in college, and if we widen my scope, it was definitely not my first time in school. It was my first time in Pittsburgh, though. That is a huge airport, but not as big as Atlanta.

A month ago, I moved up here on my own. It was a big deal, but I was moving home (defined as where your parents life, since I've never actually lived here before), not really moving out on my own as I'd originally planned. Turns out $2000 is not enough to move alone into a new state with all your stuff and still have enough to get a place to live when you don't have a job or savings or any idea what the cost of living is like*. It was a step toward something new, but I don't feel like it really qualifies as something new since it's not. It's just a shifting of old situations.

Also a month-ish ago, I finished a novel--and maybe that counts. I've written novel-length manuscripts before, but I've never launched into full revisions afterward, and this is a new thing: revising pages. Changing them drastically. Adding and subtracting scenes and making the whole better than the first incarnation of itself.

Yeah, that's it. That's my most recent new thing.

I think, though, that I'll start tracking New Things. I was told years ago (I think by the TV, so take that as you will) that in Japan, there's a saying that every time you try something new, you add five minutes to your life. Whether they actually say that or not, I think it's a good way to look at the world: as a buffet of new things you can try. We're all looking for ways to make our lives better, right? Well, variety does that. Newness and novelty do that.

What is your most recent new thing?

*It's a little higher than living in FL, but I hear the pay rate is better. I think that's why people get stuck in FL--the difference in cost of living and pay rates makes it hard to be able to afford to leave that sunny, bug-riddled sandbar.

Life Lessons: When life messes with your computer harddrive, get a new computer.

Last night, I bit the bullet and just bought that new computer. Dell was having a sort-of deal--no speakers, keyboard or mouse, but you get a new tower and a 20'' monitor for 399$, so I spent some of my moving-my-stuff-up-here money and ordered it. It wasn't easy--four hundred dollars of money that's already spoken for is a lot of money--but last week I lost a lot of time to the poor old girl crapping out on me, and I just couldn't take it anymore. I actually made the decision earlier in the week, but it took me until Sunday, the last day in the way I count weeks, to get it done.

And you know what? I instantly felt better. Whatever this week throws at me, computer-wise, I have a shiny new one coming, and it has the right connection for me to hook it up as a double-monitor machine like I've always wanted. It's not the all-in-one shiny newness I was hoping for, it cost more money that I wanted to spend, but it's new and it shouldn't have all the problems I've just been living with because I didn't want to spend the money to fix them.

There's got to be a lesson in here somewhere. Don't delay the inevitable? I didn't put it off as far as I did when I bought this one, which was until the old one literally died and left me with no options at all. Suck it up and just act like an adult, even if you don't feel like one? I never quite feel like an adult, but I did feel a little more in control of my life and this shaky situation by just doing what needed to be done. 

I'm notorious (at least with myself) for not getting mundane stuff done until I have no choice but to do it. I have this deep and abiding feeling that I shouldn't have to do what I don't want to do. But I think that is exactly the definition of being adult--doing all the boring and annoying stuff you don't want to do, but that has to be done. What I'm starting to figure out, is that we all have the choice about how we frame all that stuff--and that the frame determines whether we avoid it or just suck it up and do it.

And, I mean, it's been seven years since I got this computer. It's served me well. I've saved it three times now. It's time to get a new workspace, since school AND what little job I have all depend on this.

What dumb thing have you been avoiding? Do you think you can just suck it up and do it after all?

Monday Inspirations: 9-3-2012

"the gold of life is found when we sacrifice short-term pleasure that will eventually create long-term pain - for short-term pain that leads to long-term pleasure."

--Mastin from The Daily Love email today