PadawanOfHappiness

Dress for success! Fake it until you make it! Dress for the job you want not the one you have! Look good feel good! All great little inspiration type one liners right?  Well today is day one and it is an odd day for me.  Day one means excitement and  a sense of a clean slate but also it can be a bit overwhelming and daunting, so I feel like I am pulled in different directions. I started out and managed to push myself to exercise (w00t!) and then I felt myself slipping and it was only 10 AM.  It came to me in the shower, one I needed to celebrate my achievement and I needed to find some hacks if you will to help keep me motivated. What I came up with was those phrases above kept running through my head and I decided to embrace them until I made it so to speak.  While I am certainly not dressing for success today nor for the job I want just the idea of that helped me.  So I am sort of faking it right now and I did take the time for a face ...

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...