April Snow Showers

Today is April 3. There are about 6 inches of snow on my driveway right now that all came down in the last 20 hours. I do not like snow. I usually hunker down for the winter and go out as little as possible; kind of like a bear. It makes me not want to do anything at all. But then, I was looking out my window at the trees in my backyard and thinking how pretty it was. I think that it's God's way of letting me know that even the things I don't like in my life can be good. And, randomly enough, it was a reminder to me of the good things in my life that I need to be doing but that I don't like. Exercise, f'rinstance, is something that I should be doing on a regular basis, but I have a really hard time doing it because I don't like it. It's good for me, though, and it would help me with a lot of my problems (weight, depression, high blood-pressure...) so it's something that I need to do. In that regard, exercise is like snow: I don't like it, but it's beautiful in the end.

Having had that little eureka moment made me ponder some of the other things in my life that I'm not doing, but should. I've decided to set better goals, starting today, to manage my time and money so that I can get what I want. I'm always telling my students "decide what you want and then make the choices that will get you what you want." It only makes sense that I should follow my own advice. So, here is what I want: I want to lose enough weight that I'm happy and healthy, I want to take voice and piano lessons so that I can be confident in my talents, I want to audition for more shows with enough confidence that I get cast, and I want to go on more dates. Now, I just have to sit down and decide how to get what I want...

So, the challenge begins! I will begin adding proverbial snowflakes to my backyard of life to achieve what I want.