Skip to main content

Motivation/Anticipation

Image
By
I have needed to get something done for almost a year now, and I have put it off.

This project is ALWAYS in the back of my mind, nagging at me when I spend my free time doing anything but it.

____________

For my birthday this year, John bought me an underwater camera.  It wasn't what I wanted at all.  It was really a gift that John wanted.  I wanted an iPad.  I really wanted an iPad.

However, I never look a gift horse in the mouth, and I accepted the gift graciously.  Honestly, it was a gift seeing how excited John was about the camera.

Unfortunately, the camera didn't work very well.

____________

I came home from Michigan last week, and John announced that he had a surprise for me.  You guessed it--a brand new iPad!

Words can't contain my excitement, but as soon as I picked up the box (sitting on the kitchen counter), I knew that I couldn't open it.

I couldn't open it until I finished that darn project.  If anything would motivate me to get it done, this would!

______________

It has now been 10 l.o.n.g. days.  For greater motivation, I have left the unopened iPad on my desk, right next to where I have been working on my project.  In fact, it has often gotten in the way of my books and papers, but I have refused to move it.

Yesterday, I finished my project.  It's all packed up and ready to send, and believe me, I did a fantastic job on it.  You would think that I would tear into the iPad immediately, but strangely I haven't.

It's still sitting on my desk, unopened.

It reminds me of Christmas.  As Mark says, the anticipation of Christmas morning is more fun than the actual opening of gifts.  I must agree.

I look at the unopened box and think of all the fun I'm going to have!  Crazy, I know, but true.

______________


Okay, I'm signing off.  I can't stand it anymore.  Oh boy!!!  Get ready for some crazy "Draw Something" pictures, friends! :-)


Comments

  1. LinzApril 20, 2012 at 10:26 PM

    Oh my gosh, what was the project????

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sarah MoranApril 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM

    I recently heard something that has changed how I feel about motivation. Action leads to motivation which leads to more action. Instead of waiting to feel motivated to do something, I should just do it and the action will make me feel motivated. Congratulations on finishing your project; I am curious about what it was. Have fun with your new iPad!

    ReplyDelete
  3. John KennedyApril 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM

    Good Job Mommy Aris! You deserve the iPad and we took the camera back!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SURPRISE!!

By
When the pizza guy came to the door last night, here's what John saw: It took a few seconds for John to process who the pizza delivery man was, but when he did, he was incredibly happy (and couldn't stop saying "heeeeyyyyy....".  It was Jared Moran, John's best friend. And me, I just knelt down, right then and there, and began repenting of all the lies that I have told over the last four months, hiding this most amazing surprise :-)  I told Sarah the other day that I was glad to see the light at the end of the falsehood tunnel, because if I kept this up much longer, I was destined to end up in liars' hell... Jared ran the Air Force marathon with John last year.  It was his first marathon, and from what he told us, his last.  However, he called in June and said he was coming again, but I was supposed to keep it a surprise from John.  I'm not sure what changed his mind, but we sure are glad he did.  John hates runnings marathons alone, and ther...
4 comments
Read more

Trail Run

By
Since Anna's blog is private (and inaccessible to most), I copied her post about her recent trail run.  She wrote about it much more philosophically than I did, and I love it. I'm so grateful that I have a body that allows me to run. Running has proved to work wonders for my stress, and for my physical and mental well-being. I've evolved into a new "Anna" through running and training for races.   This past weekend, I ran my first trail race. Going into it, I had NO idea what to expect. I actually thought it would be a nice path through a wooded tree area. Boy, I was WRONG! The trail included running through rivers, up and along such narrow pathways on the side of mountains, and through legit mud holes. It didn't help that I forgot to wear my Garmin GPS watch. Not only was I clueless to where I was running, I had no idea how far I had run and how much longer I needed go. The race became a total mental feat.   I could hear myself breathing heavily. I cou...
3 comments
Read more

A Quick Trip to Mackinac Island

By
 Allow me a pity party for a paragraph.  As much as John is earning buckets of money for us and for our retirement, his weekend calls have been infringing on our time together.  Like I said, it's a complete pity party, because my logical mind reminds me that I should be happy he's making so much money, but my heart feels rather lonely at times as I reminisce about trips we have taken that we don't have time to take again. I love John.  I don't need him around all the time, but I find that the best quality time with him is when he doesn't have other distractions like work, and call, and hospital credentialing. Anyway, I guess that was two paragraphs, and I don't need to take it any further than that, because I don't want the body of this blog post to be about me and my loneliness. I've been wanting to go to Mackinac Island for two years now (I can hardly even believe that it's been that long since I was there).  With Lake Michigan getting colder and t...
Post a Comment
Read more