I am looking forward to relaxing with a good book, does anyone have a recommendation for me? I am more looking for fiction, more light hearted, not heavy literature.
It isn't exactly light, but it isn't super-serious either... I'm currently 400 pages in to American Gods by Neil Gaiman and it is the best fiction I've read in a really long time.
What's a time when you failed to meet your goal? More importantly, how have you used that failure to learn and grow?
Bonus QOTD: Since it's Friday the 13th... What's your favorite Disney Halloween movie?
I tend to take a Thomas Edison view of the world. He is credited with saying about the as-yet-unsuccessful light bulb that he hadn't failed, he'd merely found a thousand ways that don't work. I haven't failed. I'm still here and still trying new things, and as long as that's true I don't think of it as failure. I've just ruled out a lot of wrong turns and dead ends on the way to finding a path that does work!
Oddly, I don't really have a favorite Disney Halloween movie. It isn't a holiday I associate with family movies, I guess, other than The Great Pumpkin. I love horror flicks and the Rocky Horror Picture Show but those are very much NOT Disney!
What worked form is that I need to go to the rec right from work before I go home. Once I go home I get lazy and don't go back out. I am back to doing that.
That's one of my biggies too... only I don't work, so the challenge is to be ready to go after dropping the kids off in the morning. Because if I come home, I'll find 500 things to do to fill the day and never head back out to the gym, and if I don't go while they're in school I probably won't go at all.
Sometimes it’s easy to have a goal in mind, but we don’t always take the time to look into what needs to be done to make it possible. Is your goal still just a thought in your mind or have you studied it to determine how you can meet it? If you haven’t, what is standing in your way?
Bonus QOTD: Let's say there was a University of Disney. If you were a student there, what would you want to major in (Rides, Shows, Characters, etc)?
I tend to go to extremes when it comes to things like this - either I study the goal/issue to death, which sometimes leads me into planning paralysis, or I just jump in and make it up as I go along. I'm mostly taking that second path right now and trying not to let overthinking kill my momentum, though some details are starting to take shape. It started with "get to the gym at least 5 days a week", then "log at least 3.1 miles a day" since that's the distance DD wants me walking/running with her, and is now evolving into at least a couple of specific targets (first 5k on Dec 2, with a couple of DD's wish list races penciled in for the future). I need to put a little time into an upper body/weights routine but I haven't sat down to do that yet.
If there were a University of Disney, I'd want to major in graphic design/visual storytelling. No one sets a memorable scene or creates an identifiable brand experience quite like Disney, and that is a skill I would love to see up close and down to the smallest detail.