The Act of Creation

I believe that anything in life, if placed in the proper context, can become a life lesson. After about four and a half hours of organizing my computer, I decided to take a break and look for desktop wallpapers to go with my, now, sparkling clean and organized computer space. As I’m making my way through the Google Image Search, I come upon a YouTube video of an artist creating a picture of Arwen and Aragorn.

It was an enlightening experience watching this video. Most people, including myself, take for granted the things that exist. Things are just automagically there when we want/need them. We fail to appreciate the time and effort it takes to “materialize” these things.

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How to Break Bad Habits

Previously, I wrote about a bad habit of mine where I was literally sleeping my life away. I was always late to work because I would sleep past the threshold of time when I needed to get up and ready. Most times I would wear a colorful scarf on my head and skip putting on makeup just so I could make it to work at a reasonable “lateness”. After work, I would vegetate in front of the television or aimlessly surf the internet before going to bed. On my days off I would take long naps. I estimate that I slept between ten to sixteen hours a day and would still be tired.

By December of 2007, I began to wage war against my apathetic self and the first place I attacked was my poor sleeping habits. I imposed a maximum sleeping time restriction of eight hours. Afternoon naps were forbidden. I set a bed time and an awake time that had to be kept without exception.

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Ways to Rekindle Your Self-Motivation

Last week, a co-worker of mine confided in me that she wanted to quit. The main problem was that this was a second job for her; one she had gotten to help pay off the stack of bills piled up on her kitchen table. Her goal was to pay off her debt so she could get a better interest rate when she refinanced her home but the struggle of working two jobs had pretty much destroyed her self-motivation. She didn’t like working two jobs but she wanted to preserve her credit score.

I didn’t know what to say to her. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who only think of something good to say after the fact. This time, though, I was in luck. Our shifts overlapped and after about a half an hour of thinking about her situation, I presented her with my brilliant solution that would rekindle her self-motivation.
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