Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 135

Today's Daily 5:
  1. A pretty mellow day to round out my time off before heading back to work tomorrow morning for the last couple days of my temporary contract
  2. going to bed in freshly washed pajamas
  3. watching the Anne of Green Gables movies over the last couple of days
  4. a long hot shower
  5. a free sample of body butter that came in the mail, and slathering it on my legs after my shower
  6. wearing my hair curly two days in a row
  7. smooth sorting out of a problem with my VISA card 
  8. getting some errands (including a few I wasn't expecting to do) done
  9. Spending $8 total for a really cute new hat and a pair of great earrings
  10. going shopping with mom - time with her, and a small purchase was her birthday present
  11. a natural health treatment
  12. getting a ride home, with all my stuff, after being at mom and dad's for several days in a row
  13. hemp lip balm from The Body Shop
  14. a glass water bottle, with a silicone protector around it.  love that I have a glass bottle
  15. really good homemade fried rice for supper
  16. getting passport photos taken, at a very affordable cost, for BOTH of the passports I need to apply for/renew in the next month or so
  17. a big mug of tea upon my arrival home, while unpacking, cleaning, and tackling other tasks
  18. working on marking items off a list
  19. 10 minute yoga
  20. Lindt hazelnut chocolate balls

Reverb 10: Day 28 - Achieve

Today's Reverb 10 Prompt:

December 28 – Achieve

What’s the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine you’ll feel when you get it? Free? Happy? Complete? Blissful? Write that feeling down. Then, brainstorm 10 things you can do, or 10 new thoughts you can think, in order to experience that feeling today.

(Author: Tara Sophia Mohr)

I'm not a big achievement driven person.  At all.  In fact, I'm quite possibly the least motivated by competition, winning, and achievement person that you'll ever meet.

It's why I generally hate games. (Among other things, anyway.)  I just don't care about the outcome.

That said, when I read this prompt, an answer immediately sprang to mind.

The thing I would most like to achieve in 2011 is to be admitted to nursing school.

That will hopefully happen either in the first week of 2011 (possibly requiring a miracle), or it will possibly happen in September.

I don't know, honestly, what I'll feel, when that happens, other than perhaps relief and joy.  And maybe some excitement.

And that combination of feelings, well, it's not one I really want to experience today, or every day, so the part of this prompt that suggested I brainstorm ways to replicate that feeling (can you replicate something that hasn't happened yet?) is the part of the prompt that I am going to ignore.