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Soul, the price of life, and Lamborghini Moments
We watched Soul the other day – the new Pixar movie that tackles some of the toughest questions of life cloaked in the comfy blanket of being a family film. A middle aged jazz musician is at a crossroads, choosing between pursuing his passion, and “selling out” to be a high school band teacher when suddenly he dies, is on his new journey to the Great Beyond, isn’t ready to give up yet, and winds up inspiring a to-be-born soul to embrace life herself. It was filled with great music, and was a visual delight, but the thing that really got to me was a line I can’t remember, but…
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Guillaume le Gentil, and when your goals just don’t work out…
This week is the height of the Geminid meteor shower, which is one of the highlights of the night sky this month, the other being the appearance of the Christmas Star for the first time in 800 years. Sadly, I’m striking out with the Geminids myself because it’s raining this week. And this reminds me of a book I read several years ago about the 18th century quest to track the Venus Transit. Every 240 years or so, Venus transits the sun, which means that it will cross over between the earth and the sun. And this event happens in a pair 8 years apart. Back in the 18th century,…
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Newton and Goal Setting
Isaac Newton is the symbol of an enlightened 17th century scientific revolution, having codified the laws of physical and motion to the extent that humans were able to observe them. Newton’s Laws of Motion only work on Earth, and it wasn’t until Einstein, 300 years later, when we began to understand the forces working on bodies in space, and where earth’s gravity isn’t applicable. But Newton’s Laws are perfect for studying motion on our planet. I also extrapolate them out to help me understand why achieving goals can be so damn hard. So let’s look at Newton’s Three Laws, and how they can relate to setting and achieving goals. The…
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Living a life worthy of the $75 journal
Yesterday my kiddo and I were talking about taking the easy route. She is a bright little girl, for whom most things come easy. Consequently, she can get by with little effort, and those activities that do require effort get put aside. I was sharing with her how I used to be much more like that – I still am, to a certain extent – but that with age I learned how good it feels to stretch yourself, and have a feeling of pride in learning something new, or accomplishing something that seemed impossible. Around 2009 I bought a gorgeous leather journal with beautiful narrow-ruled paper and a leather tie.…
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Why is change so hard? (in which I disappeared for a month)
Why is making change so hard, and so confronting? How is it that I’ll have four really good days, make some progress, feel really good, and then have a terrible day. Then I want to go hide under a rock for three weeks to get over it. This is not the way one achieves goals. I know that intellectually, but it’s the whole “getting my body to go ahead with what my mind wants” that’s hard. It’s all well and good to look at quotes like this, and feel inspired: But what happens when you fear the new? What happens when you are afraid of the new because it’s an…
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Blog Post Day 2: In which I chop beets, and set a micro-goal
One of the things that is so difficult about reaching goals is that big goals are scary. How on earth am I going to start a consulting business this year? Or lose 60 pounds? I struggle to lose five! How can I do 60?! And this is why, my friends, I am setting micro-goals each week. Because they are way less scary. Take it one step further, and you will notice that I am setting micro-goals about things related to my big goals, but not directly tied to them. So I’m not setting a micro-goal to lose 2 pounds this week. Why? Because that reminds me that my goal is…
