"Teachers have it so easy with summers off."
"I wish I could be a teacher so I could sit around and do nothing for two months."
"Wow. I bet you love being able to relax for the whole summer."
Honestly, summers are intimidating to me. I never know what to do with so much space and time. This is the first summer I have ever been responsible for just me, and while I do find a sort of freedom in that, it is also a bit scary. I like to feel purposeful. I need a purpose every day, even if it is a small one.
Purpose gives us drive and motivation. It is what gets us up out of bed each morning. Some days I label "taking out the garbage" as my purpose, especially since no one else in my apartment building seems to feel it is theirs. I often wonder why it is I feel so "purposeless"? I like to think it is because my journey hasn't even really lifted off yet. That I am still revving up for something great. However, there comes a time when you have to turn over from revving to driving, and as I get older, I see that fate and destiny can only take you so far. I don't want to give up on my fantastical, mythical, romantic self that still believes in fate and destiny, but I have become more comfortable in sliding over to the driver seat. As Napolean Hill** once said,
"I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.”
Vroom, vroom...time to get driving! :)
**Napolean Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) is one of America's earliest personal-success literature authors. His most famous work is Think and Grow Rich (1937), which at the time of his death in 1970, had sold 20 million copies.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill
"I wish I could be a teacher so I could sit around and do nothing for two months."
"Wow. I bet you love being able to relax for the whole summer."
Honestly, summers are intimidating to me. I never know what to do with so much space and time. This is the first summer I have ever been responsible for just me, and while I do find a sort of freedom in that, it is also a bit scary. I like to feel purposeful. I need a purpose every day, even if it is a small one.
Purpose gives us drive and motivation. It is what gets us up out of bed each morning. Some days I label "taking out the garbage" as my purpose, especially since no one else in my apartment building seems to feel it is theirs. I often wonder why it is I feel so "purposeless"? I like to think it is because my journey hasn't even really lifted off yet. That I am still revving up for something great. However, there comes a time when you have to turn over from revving to driving, and as I get older, I see that fate and destiny can only take you so far. I don't want to give up on my fantastical, mythical, romantic self that still believes in fate and destiny, but I have become more comfortable in sliding over to the driver seat. As Napolean Hill** once said,
"I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.”
Vroom, vroom...time to get driving! :)
**Napolean Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) is one of America's earliest personal-success literature authors. His most famous work is Think and Grow Rich (1937), which at the time of his death in 1970, had sold 20 million copies.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill