First week of school was stressful but a welcome change. Been thinking a lot about what makes great people great. Take Michael Phelps for instance. My goodness. They say he burns 4,000 calories a workout. Sometimes the thought goes through my head why can he push himself and I do not seem to have the inner ability to get up 30 minutes before my kids to work out. Or to eat right. Or to do something for myself spiritually everyday. I have decided it has to start with desire. I don't know if I always have the desire to do those things. So what I am going to start working on is creating a desire to better myself.
I know I can do it. Since I have become interested in photography and feel like I have become better at it in the past months, I feel like lately I can accomplish a lot more. The time and energy it has taken me to learn how to shoot manually and learn all those stupid hard things in photoshop has taught me that if you want to get good at something or have a desire you have to push yourself to be better. So that is my word for the school year is desire!!
I want to create it in myself and my family.
And just to throw in there because no blog entries would be complete without some shots. I got spend an evening with mosquitoes and four fabulous people. Here are some of my favorites.
Loved every minute of it. I appreciate them letting me use them to practice.
I also decided that it is time to start working on Halloween. I will making some fun things soon and I will try to remember to post them.
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DESIRE!! It does have to start with that!
i know i left a comment...but its not showing up...
anyway...love the second photo the best:)
I totally agree with the desire thing. One of the Olympic sprinters said that they guy who wants it the most will be the first across the finish line. Now and then I would watch the sprinters or even the long distance/marathon runners)and someone would come up from behind and win the race. My thighs were screaming in pain just watching them do it but I knew, without a doubt, that that person wanted it more than the person they were passing on the track and that's why they could get that sudden burst of energy and win. My friend, Steph, often asks me why she can't seem to lose weight, exercise, etc. I tell her you just have to WANT it. When you really want something you can totally do it. Look at you with photos and photoshop. I have a camera. I want to take nice photos. I even have photoshop. But can I do it like you? No way, because I don't have enough DESIRE to put in the effort to do it. I end up closing the photoshop program and saying "screw it" and walk away. And I'll never be able to take pictures like you as long as I don't have enough desire to put forth the effort to learn. I'm glad you found something that you feel that way about. It makes life so much more fun! Yikes, I didn't mean to get so long-winded!! Sorry, blah, blah, blah!
Hello my little piece of inspiration, how are you? I'm in!! Screw new years resolutions. Lets start fall resolutions! I don't want to be bigger, just better.
It takes a lot more than desire to do a lot of things. I just want to know how many children Micheal Phelps takes care of every day. Do you know why that woman was 41 when she swam in the olympics? It's because she had other things to deal with before that. Is that really how you write that? Mean time? Is it one word? I don't have any desire to check the spelling dictionary.
Thanks for blogging and for sharing your beautiful photos.
Sorry if that sounded beastly. I was actually trying to be encouraging, like, don't beat yourself up for not being an olympic swimmer or because you don't get up a half an hour earlier to exercise. It is desire, but you have to chose where you are going to spend the desire because time and energy are limited, too.
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