The Secret

Does everyone realize that they are adding to the craziness in the economy right now? Most of the population has either heard of the book "The Secret" or even heard of the movie. The movie talks about how people think and that people's thought are made up of energy. Whatever someone is thinking, whether good or bad, they give that thought energy and the universe conspires to create that thought.


So does it make sense to enable this situation by being scared and afraid of what's happening in the economy? I think it's a little ironic. Most people focus on what they don't want to happen and in turn, it happens because they are giving that thought energy. How crazy is that?

By the way, this post isn't for any specific situation. I was just watching the news the past few days and, boy, is it negative. I just thought about how many people watch this everyday and how much TV actually feeds our thoughts.

What's wrong with being positive and focusing on things that we WANT to happen instead of the things we DON'T WANT to happen? Just a thought...

Habits

What can I say about my habits? I have a lot of good habits and a lot of bad habits. For example, some of my bad habits are....

1) Eating more when my stomach hurts (which may mean I should stop eating, but I keep eating anyways)
2) Biting my lip when I'm thinking (which causes my lips to look dry)
3) Watching TV while I work at home (which sometimes means I don't have 100% concentration)
4) Text messaging
5) Procrastinating on almost everything

Some of my good habits...
1) Cleaning the kitchen right after cooking
2) Eating healthy
3) Writing everything down (notes, journal, lists, etc.)
4) Keeping everything in order (almost close to OCD)
5) Read everything...

So, now what? That's another bad habit I have...I ramble on so long that I forget what my point is...LOL

Doing It All

Have you ever had that feeling that you want to do everything but once you sign up for all of it, you wanna just crawl up in a ball and hide? Well, I sometimes feel that way. I just recently ran the Nike Women's Half Marathon (which is quite an accomplishment for me as I have never been the athletic type). I was so sick before the race because I didn't know what to expect. That and I have never in my life ever run 13.1 miles. This is what it looked like when we started at 7am. It was freezing.


Anyways, I was running with Sandra for the first 2 miles, but I lost her after mile 2. The first 6 miles were a breeze until I got to the dreaded 7th mile which was all uphill into the Presidio. It was probably the MOST beautiful run I've ever done in my life. And the sad thing is that it's right across the bridge.

Anyways, at mile 7, I met a girl named Anna, whose boyfriend broke up with her a month before the race. She said he kicked her out of their apartment and threw away her shoes. How rude! I ran with her until mile 11 and finished strong. I finished in 2.57 hours. My pace was 13.32 minutes per mile (considering I actually walked up all the hills...there were 3 major ones).

All in all, I learned that people have different motivations for doing everything in their life. Whether it be running for themselves, running for someone else, or running because they're bored. Through the whole process, I learned that my motivation was just to know that I could run that many miles. And I did.