Habits...

I'm not sure what to write about this. The teacher wants us to write about one of our habits. I don't really think "habits" have as much to do with a person as does their personality traits.I am completely stumped on this writing blog. I would rather write about personality traits. I think that has to do with wheather or not a person becomes successful in life.

I am determined. My husband teases me because if I want something I will not let go of it until I get it. I am smart about it though. I don't want something that I believe is compeletly unrealistic. Everything I want and I fight for I truely belive that I can achieve it. I have achieved many goals in my life through tough DETERMINATION!

I wanted to have two children, my husband only wanted one. He said we could not afford to have two children. I matched his challenge and I proved to him that we could afford to have two. Because of that I have two children.

I was tired of my job, in the past. I worked crazy hours seven days a week. I decided that I wanted a Mon-Fri 8-6 job. I worked hard to find one and I got one. I had to change careers but I got what I wanted.

I decided that I was tired of not working my dream job. So I searched for a job in childcare. I found one that I liked and that let me keep my mon-fir 8-6 days/hours. I changed careers again. This time my husband was not sure it was the right choice. It involved a large paycut and benefits but I was determined that this is what I wanted. I have never looked back. To me this was the right decision.

I wanted to go to college. I was always regretful that I was not able to

Successful people have successful habits. Unsuccessful people don't!

I agree with this. If you make the wrong choices in life, like drugs, alcholol, smoking, ect..., your life will not be good. Your quality of life goes down everytime you make the decision to things like that. If you want your life to be successful you have to make the right choices. A successful life does't have to mean you will be rich. I feel like my life is very successful and I am very far from rich. Money wise I get by. I don't have to worry about groceries or if I will be able to pay the mortgage this month but I do have to think if I want to buy something extra. I feel like I have made the right decisions in life. Many of my dreams have been able to come true and that is why I think my life is successful. I have a wonderful husband, two wonderful kids, family and friends that love me, and a job I enjoy (for the most part).

I think that I have made successful habits as I've made my journey through life. I have never done drugs or smoked, alcholol has been very limited and never abuse, I avoid the wrong kind of people, and I surround myself with only good, kind hearted people. I avoid people that may try to influence me to go down the wrong path and only socialize with the people that believe in me and my choices. I am strong and determined, which are two good traits to have I think, if you want to become successful in life.

I think being successful is something that you should want, something that you will have to work hard at to achieve, and something that you should feel passionate about.

I believe...(about money)

I believe that with money that I am selfish first and chartiable second.

$3 million dollars

Oops the amount is three million not three thousand. Wow there are so many things I can do. I will build a house for me and my father-in-law. I will fly him down here. I will quit my job and open my own center, which I will have build to my specifications. My husband can quit his job if he wants and persue his other dreams. I will put a lot of the money into a trust fund for my children so they don't have to worry about college like I did. I will help out my family and pay off their bills and I will donate some of the money to a woman's shelter. I feel that any woman that wants to get out of an abusive relationship needs all the support she can get. I think all of that should put a dent into the three million. The rest of the money I would just save. I would love to be able to take the children on wonderful vacations every summer with the money.

$3,000

There are many things I could do with the money. I could take my children on a vacation, I could afford to fly my father-in-law down for an extended visit, I could be greedy and spend the money on a few things for myself. However, I am very frustrated at work and I think right now I would use the money to fix up the daycare that I work at. I am having computer and printer issues so I would have the computer fixed and buy a new printer. I would buy shelves for my office so I no longer have to stack items on the floor, which causes me a high level of anxiety everytime I walk into the office. I could use the money to fix a few minor buildding issues and I could buy the children a lot of nice outdoor play equipment.  That may sound like a lot of things to spend the money on and I'm sure you are thinking that all of that would exceed the three thousand dollar limit but I asure you it would not. I am very thrifty and handy so many of the issues that need to be fixed I can do myself to save labor but I do need the money to purchase the parts. If I wasn't so frustrated with work and the fact the owner refuses to invest and "unnecessary" money into it then I'm sure I could think of other things to spend the money on.

My crazy morning

Today has not been a nice relaxing morning. This morning I took longer than normal getting ready so I left my house twenty minutes late. I get to the school to drop my son off, who is particapating in an "Schools Out Program" for the day, when the director asked me where my son's sack lunch is. In my head I thought 'damn, I knew I forgot something this morning'. I was to far from home to return to make him a lunch so I ran into the grocery store thinking a lunchable will be quick and fast. Turns out the grocery store is painting so it took longer than I thought to get through the store. Maybe going home would have been faster. I get his lunch and return to the school. The director says thank you and puts my son's name on the lunch. Then the director tells me that they can't find the form on him with all my contact information. So I have to fill out the information all over again. No big deal if I hadn't started my day off running behind. Okay now the paperwork is refilled out and I'm thinking okay maybe this day will turn around. I was wrong. I call in to work and tell them obvisiously I will not be in this morning. That bothers me. I had a list of things I was planning on getting done this morning. Now when I return to work on Monday I will be even farther behind. I head off to school only to stop at every single light, literally, between my son's school and OTC.  I didn't realilze that there where that many lights in Springfield until I couldn't make it through a single one. Now I'm sitting in class and when it's over I have to drive to the other side of town for a conference. Tomorrow I have to be up even earlier to return to the all day conference. You would think Saturdays are a day of relaxing and sleeping in but in my world they are not. Saturdays are my busiest day and the fact I have an all day conference that day just puts me farther behind in getting things done. (Big Sigh) Somethings it seems like I never get a day to just relax and do nothing.

Anna

Anna and I used to come up with lots of silly things. One time we went to the library and read Calvin and Hobbs comics. My favorite is when his dad is trying to take his picture for Christmas and he wouldn't sit still, dad finally tells him to smile so they can be done, Calvin makes a really funny horrible face and when his dad yells he said..."What, it was  a smile". I used to do this 'smile' all the time. If she looked over at me during one of our classes I would smile like that and she would erupt in laughter. I don't think the teachers thought is was funny but we sure did. Through the years Anna and I have moved away from each other. For a few years she lived in Portland OR, where her husband is from (and mine), and I lived here in Missouri. Even though we have lived very far apart we still talk. About once every couple of months we call each other and talk for a couple of hours.