PadawanOfHappiness

Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels I have been pondering how I am going to help myself succeed this year, and I was reminded of something one of my favorite teachers told his class.  It was my Government and Economics class and Mr. Carnes said that the economy is like a plate of spaghetti if you move one noodle you are going to move another. That really applies to life, every decision you make moves another part of your life, sometimes the move is good, sometimes it is bad, and sometimes it is neutral, but you have to be aware that one thing will influence and move another thing. So here I am pondering my life also known as a plate of spaghetti and wondering if this will work or not work.  Ultimately I think it will but I hope to remember that things may move in an unexpected manner and that is ok. An example, exercise it moves a lot of noodles on my plate.  Physically it will benefit me - cardio vascular health that I don't necessarily see but I suppose I migh...

I feel like this blog would be a good fit to track similar to the style of the famous blog the movie Julie & Julia was based on.  Which leads me to ask how do I keep myself motivated?  That leads me to ask what is my tendency?  I was pretty sure that I was an Obliger based on previous times I took The Four Tendencies Quiz at Gretchen Rubin's site however since I am doing this leg work to set myself up for success I figured I would take it again to confirm. So the results are that I am still an Obliger so this is good, my memory is not failing me yet!  I would say that I also likely lean a bit towards Upholder, but I am certainly not that.  Now I know that I need to be accountable in some form to start out with, and then I need to pull in some of the information I learned in Better Than Before and mix it all up to be the solution that works for me. I have a few things on my list to help me out: Monthly book club at my local library for the Happiness Pr...

2018 was both good and bad, but I would say more bad than good unfortunately and I wanted to make a change. The bad that happened this year was partly my fault and partly not fault, life happens. As the year is winding down I realized I didn’t like the person I was and the way my life was going, but I also had the power to make some changes. If I am brutally honest (and occasionally I will be brutally honest and sometimes I will just be honest) most of the so called “bad stuff” was my fault. This is not to say that I am a horrible person or that I was doing a lot of “bad things” but it was a lot of little things that just ultimately added up, as they say the journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step, and additionally going in the wrong direction those little mistakes can compound themselves making them not so little anymore. So lets lay it out there my issues as I see them are: Stress - honestly I used to deal well with stress, at least I believe I did. Howe...