Today's Path: The bad "AH!" to the good "ah"

As a senior in college (that sounds weird but it's true) I find my time very limited. I intern, work and take 21 hours at school. I forget to take time for me, and I end up tired, cranky and just not me.

I haven't taken "me time" in quite a while. I was going "AH!!!" because I was stressed and letting the little thoughts of "where am I going in life? what am I going to do when I graduate? where is my Magic 8 Ball to tell me what to do?" creep in and dig at me.

But yesterday, I change to "ah." I took a personal day. Yes, I did.

After class it was all about me. I just relaxed and best of all, I took a nice long nap. It was so refreshing. The best thing was I went back to living in the now. When I get stressed I start worrying about the future, and I forget about the now.

Finding the time to have "me time" is hard, but once you taste it you don't want to leave.

Today's Path: Having Fun

I saw a write up about this video online about a week ago, and then my Spanish Professor showed it in class. It is hillarious!!

It shows what you can do with only one semester of spanish, granted I do not believe it is a love song.

This goes to prove that taking a chance can be a lot of fun. Throwing caution to the wind can take to places you never thought you could go.

Enjoy the video and stop out side the box today.



For more videos you can find more where I found this one here.

Today's Path: The "Escape Adulthood" Blog

Today I was surfing around just hitting some of the usual websites, and bam! There it was. Probably the best website I have seen in, well, ever.

Kim & Jason-Escape Adulthood

If you have felt like you needed something more the past days, weeks, months or even years, you need to visit this website. Creators Kim and Jason's goal is to eliminate Adultitis.

If you think you might have adultitis, take the test and find out. Unfortunately, I have Stage 1 Adultitis, but I am taking control of it.

Today's Path: What do you do when there is no book to tell you what to do?

The past few weeks have been quite hard. I have had to make many decisions about things, some decisions easier than others, and I have had to see some friends make decisions that were not the easiest.

Some of the decisions that need to be made in life, I wish there was a book or a website or something that said with flashing lights and stars that said, "The Best and Only Way To..." Life would be so much easier if there were those types of books, but there aren't.

So that brings me to my question, What do you do when there is no book to tell you what to do? A close friend of mine brought this question up when we were talking about decisions we both were having to make. It made me really think. We have websites and books for everything possible except where we need it most, the decisions that have several different aspects to them that each aspect is so unique the decision itself can only be made by one person, YOU.

The book we all need is one that will help up see the questions we need to ask before and after we make a decision.

The first question being is the situation I am in beneficial for me?
The second question being is there any hope, even a little, for a positive outcome to this situation?
The third question is can I grow from this situation?

If the answer to either of the first two is no then you have to start making that hard choice to separate from it. Separating from it can be very hard because of a strong relationship or bond you have with others involved. Separating does not mean you have to sever all communications with them you just have to take yourself out of the middle of the situation.

In any situation you should be able to grow from some part of it, even if it is the separation.

But above all else you have to remember you have to take care of you first. It sounds selfish, but if you are not all there emotionally then you are not as good to those around you!

Today's Path: Rediscovering Childhood.

Mini Golf, Batting Cages, Playgrounds and more…

I am in my last year of college and am now realizing the importance of childhood. Life has been so stressful trying to go to school, work and finish my internship. In doing this, I have forgotten the importance of fun. So in order to bring back the fun, I have taken time this week to just be a kid.

It has been so relaxing.

Baseball games, bowing, surfing the web…

There is still one more day left in the week and I am in need of a few things to do to fill a Saturday Night. Suggestions are appreciated.

Take some time to be a kid.
And as my grandfather says, “You have to grow old, but you never have to grow up.”
Thanks Gramps!!

Today's Path: Fresh Air

The past few weeks I have been pretty much out of it. I haven't felt like me. I was stressed and blue, and I was tired of being that way.

So I took a few days off from my job, and I did some spontaneous fun things.

Last night, I went to the Balloon Glow in Forest Park. WOW! First we went to Fitz's in the Loop and enjoyed dinner out on the patio. From there we biked to Forest Park. After making a wrong turn and riding 5-10 minutes out of the way we turned around and made it back to the park.

As the balloons inflated the wind picked up. So the balloons went down. Even though we didn't get to see a lot of balloons at the balloon glow, we saw enough to be impressed.

But the glow and the ride were not what did it for me, it was the fresh air. I have spent way too much time sitting inside working and working. The time I took just to be outside in the park and ride my bike was amazing. I feel like ME again.

Take some time and spend it outside. Go to the park and regain the you inside.

Today's Path: Our Perfectionist Side

My freshman year of college my Speech Professor, Professor Haedike, gave me an assignment to go and find two people have them answer the following questions:
My strengths are_____________.
My weaknesses are____________.
I am ______________________.

At first I did not want to know the answer to these questions, but I did finally go and ask my bosses to answer them. I learned a lot from their answers. One thing did fall under strengths and weaknesses, it was perfectionism.

It is my belief that no matter who you are, you have a side of you that is a perfectionist. Some people's perfectionist side is stronger than others. There are times in which our perfectionism is quieter, and there are times when it seems to scream from the heavens.

Lately, it seems like my perfectionist side has been screaming at the top of its lungs. Every time I go to do something, I am afraid it isn't going to be right, or I am not going to be successful.

My perfectionist side makes me want to know what the future holds, but the future is only in tomorrow and will not be today.

The moment is now and in order to escape the perfectionist control freak in me, I need to live in the now. We all need to live in the now to escape the craziness inside.