62: MAKE YOUR MOVE
A Motivational Moment from Bert Oliva.
HOLIDAY PANS
by LJ Polin
Happy July 4th everyone! I hope everyone had a great time, with the people they love and avoiding any trouble that goes on out there when holidays temporarily release people from their otherwise predictable and schedule binding work life. Holidays are meant to relax, take a break from the usual chaos and put your mind to other projects. Whether it be some needed recuperation or completing a big side project. However you celebrate I don’t think you should do it alone.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy being alone at times, however I think that holidays are also times to be spent with those you love and care about. Or, at least that’s how I was raised. Overall, be safe! Enjoy great experiences and create them if you can’t. Share your time with great company and people you love and your holiday will be well spent! Happy holiday!
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RAIN IN MY LIFE
by LJ Polin
Today is day 16 of the BOWAworld Team’s “21 day vlogging challenge.” I had no idea what to talk about. I was out in the back, under our covered grill/spa area. And it started raining. Rather, it started POURING. I’m talking torrential here! That’s Miami July for you…
And it had me thinking, just sitting there in one of our swing chairs staring at the rain… How many experiences have I had in the rain? I can think of a mix between good and bad ones ever since I was little.
When I was really young I would love to run through the rain. For no real reason, but to just enjoy the experience. I would run around with my mouth open trying to drink it. Little did I know of pollution… lol
Playing soccer my whole childhood I would love playing in the rain. Tricks get more fun, running gets trickier and referees would call less slide tackle penalties. Great news for me when I discovered that since I loved to be aggressive on the field(I was defense anyways…).
I grew up watching the Discovery channel, The Crocodile Hunter, and survival shows about nature and animals in the world. I was so captured by it and had so much fun learning about the outdoors that on more than one occasion I would collect rain water in my backyard and purify it in a pot on the stove. It would make me feel like some of the survivalists I would watch on TV. I don’t think my parents ever caught on to why I was making water in the kitchen. 😛
When I got older I experienced kissing in the rain. Amazing experience and way more than fun. I’ll never forget that night. I got pretty sick that week. No doubt it was worth it though. Make sure you try this at least once!
I’ve gotten stuck in the rain as well… sleeping. Some during some fun times. Some… not so much. That’s a story for another day though.
I’ve been in the rain during bonfires and drum circles at the beach, too. That gets interesting… Depending on what stage of the night would usually determine if the activity was wrecked or if it got that much more awesome. Most of the time it just turned into a party in the water(if the temperature was manageable!)
A lot of people take such a frequent and naturally occurring thing for granted. We start to ignore what becomes routine in life. So today think about something simple. Think about the different experiences you have had… in the rain. And if you would like to have some new ones it’s never too late!
As far as I know, the rain won’t stop anytime soon… so why would you? 🙂
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DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY
by Bert Oliva
Why do you worry so much? Why do we worry so much?
What happens when you get worried? Well let’s see…When we worry we get stressed and in return we get sick.
Most of the time, we stress over small things. Things that really truly don’t make a difference in our lives.
So why so we do it? There are several reasons why. However, two big ones come to mind for me. Sometimes we fight for things to go a certain way and when they don’t we flip out. Others times people do things the way we don’t like or it bothers us.
Here are some tools that have worked for me.
PowerTools™
1) Avoid setting yourself up with F.E.A.R., which Les Brown says is “False. Expectation. Appearing. Real.” Try to not have expectations so you don’t take too many things to heart.
2) Don’t allow others to disappoint you. Not everyone is going to make you happy.
3) Focus on what you need to be focusing on, which is you and your life. Because once you take care of you and what’s in your life, everything else falls into place and happens as it should.
So just stop worrying so much and be happy.
Live Life,
Bert Oliva
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KEEP IT ORGANIZED
by Alexa Oliva
I have seen many people have their lives fall apart before their eyes because they can’t keep their living spaces in order. Being organized just takes a little big of time. The next way to start is to decide what categories you need to make then take everything and throw it into those categories. Then you split those categories and start organizing.
I have a rule that if I haven’t used it in over a year I toss it. Especially if I don’t have a use for it in the near future.
Another tip before it gets too messy and overwhelming is try setting out a day of the week to tackle any mess you have. If you pile up the clothes all week, then Saturday take 10 or 15 minutes to make sure it doesn’t get out of control.
Good luck.
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?
by Eric Munter
This must be one of the most commonly asked questions a child faces as they grow up. At first, grandma, grandpa, relatives and friends will gush over the baby of a parent and eventually ask, “So, what do you want little Oswald or little Mildred to be?” I guess technically, the first question these people should be asking the parents is, “Why in the world did you name your child Oswald or Mildred?” (No offense to those of you who named or plan to name your child as such – but I beg that you please reconsider).
Later on in the child’s life when they can speak and are in school, they will field this question themselves. “What do you want to be when you grow up, Ozzie? Miley, have you considered what you will do in the future?” (Oswald and Mildred have of course grown up to despise their names as I predicted, and they demand to be called by their self-enforced nicknames).
Ozzie and Miley know exactly what they want to be when they grow up. Oswald wants to and becomes a lawyer (but sadly this will cost him his “Ozzie” nickname, and he will henceforth be known as Oswald Reagan Kensington IV because it sounds more “lawyery”). Miley wants to and becomes an actress (and changes her name for a third time to stage name Macy Furlap because her birth-name is already registered with the S.G.A. – the Screen Actor’s Guild).
Oswald and Mildred are lucky. They have known what they’ve wanted to be their entire lives. When growing up, I was asked the same question they were asked hundreds of times. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I answered this question hundreds of times and probably gave dozens of different answers over the years.
“I want to be a writer.”
“I want to be a teacher.”
“I want to be an actor.”
“I want to be a priest.” (Fortunately, this ambition passed – no offense to those in the priesthood.)
“I want to play in the NHL.”
“I want to be an architect.”
I’m now twenty-nine years old and if you were to ask me what I want to be – I honestly don’t know what I’d tell you. I have dozens of different things that I am extremely interested in pursuing, and have been lucky to pursue several of them to various degrees. But to only pick one? I get antsy and want to try something new after doing the same thing for a period of time. Is this just a lack of focus, or is it simply I haven’t found the one thing in life I love to do and want to do until the day I die – the thing to which I can finally answer the question, “What do you want to be?”
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