Motivation

I am in need of motivation.

I need to find a way to stay focused and excited about projects that are less then exciting. I need to find a reason to do the things that I know need to get done, but that I am really not that thrilled to do. Things like: going to the gym more than once a week, re-categorizing all the accounts at work so that they get taxed correctly, recreating all the floor plans for work, actually picking up my calls at work instead of letting them go to voice mails, etc.

It seems like I am finding a zillion and twelve reasons to not do these things, and finding others things to do that really have no merit or need to be done. Why is that???

I think I have figured out why I don't like to pick up the phone at work. It just rings so constantly.  The generation of people I am working for and with do not really like to work via email - they would prefer to do things by phone, while I would much rather bang out a quick email with the details and be done with it. I feel with the phone ringing all day - I hardly get a thing done all day.

I am pretty sure I know why I keep putting off all the account work - I really hate that there is so much finance involved in my position and I don't like the way my program deals with reporting... so it takes forever to try and get the correct report generated. I also never really know what type of finance reports need to be created and why - things are never quite clear on that front.

I should love creating floor plans and drafting diagrams - I just can't wrap my head around it I think, because I am pretty sure that the staff is going to rebel against something that I do. They are going to pitch a fit about the angles of the drawing, or the layout of the chairs and how that has never been the way it was done before. It just seems exhausting before I even start.

And let's not even begin to hypothesise why I can't get to the gym... we all know it's been a struggle forever!!

All I know is that I need some focus. Anyone have any to spare?

Life Lessons - an article sent to me by my dad

My dad sent my this about a year ago and I just found it again. Still sounds like some pretty decent advice to me. Thanks Daddy.

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland,Ohio


"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most-requested column I've ever written."
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their
journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry;
God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one
is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no
for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.
Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years,
will this matter?".

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you
did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,
we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.