good news, all

so i spent all of tuesday evening reading a book called 'high energy habits' by bill ford.
mostly self explanatory stuff, but just investing time and energy into reading about them makes them all the more real. and all the more do-able. and all the more worthwhile.
interesting things like writing lists for yourself, of short term and long term goals. and crossing them off. no matter how big or small (dropping off ten resumes, or drinking 2L of water) just the act of crossing the goal off the list gives you more energy to tackle the rest. interesting! i already write lists and i LOVE crossing stuff off... but i didn't know for a fact that it was a good thing. just thought i was a little crazy or something.
and apparently (says bill ford) writing a journal in the morning is more productive as you'll write more about your feelings...as compared to writing in the evening when you're more inclined to write about events. also interesting. considering i write in my journal (which you don't get to see) mostly at night, and i write a nice mix of both..i think..(most of it ends with 'ok, sleep time') ...and i guess i blog quite randomly, so don't test this theory against this blog.

most of the information available in 'high energy habits' is not new to me. and it felt a little misguided as i'm also in the middle of reading john bowen's "evangelism for 'normal' people" (GOOD BOOK) which is, i find, 'the same sort of thing' but with a totally different, *CHRISTIAN* approach. bill ford writes about striaght forward 'duh' ways to have more energy in your personal and business (a little more abstract, seeing as i'm in school not business) life, while john bowen writes about real ideas... 'think about this and maybe apply it to your life at church or at home' : more energy in your spiritual evangelistic life...and your relationship with others and with God. (which is less abstract, because it IS my life.) i like john bowen's writing style better, maybe because i spent a weekend listening to some of his speeches at bridges aaaaaaand he's a pretty cool guy.

ANYWAYS...implementing both:
i ACHIEVED exercise this morning (i went out for a run! for the first time in what, 2 months? and it feels SO good. it's like being freed from cabin fever and that nasty ceiling paint that mom keeps stinking up the house with--i'm probably pretty high right now--and the headache's been there. i need fresh air!!!!)
and i sent out six resumes so far to various landscaping companies. ...and having achieved those goals, i can now move on to bigger and better things...like following up on the resumes i sent out.
just as an aside, why do interviews suck so much? job interviews, ecf exec interviews, hhmm---usually i can speak...i don't stutter every day...and my BRAIN works at least half the time...but during an interview, everything literally just shuts down. i can do before or after interview just fine...joke around, make fun of myself being nervous, etc. but when all those crazy questions start flying at me and my answer is going to determine the direction of the rest of my life...wow. freaky. haha.

yep, so back to what i was saying: i ran. i did my jobsearch. i did them myself. no one nagged me about them. sort of. and now i need to write some more goals down so i can cross them off! yay for crossing things off lists!
so, now what. i guess i can keep reading about evangelism. or i could study for my midterm next week. or i could paint. or i could sit here at the computer and encourage the carpel tunnel in my writsts (no i don't know if i spelled that right but i don't care--too lazy to check..)
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