To-Do Tuesday: Motivate Me

Easy.  Fun for the whole family.
In order to stay motivated, create a goal of something you want badly.  Then find/make a picture to represent this goal.  Hang it up somewhere you can see it everyday - like the fridge.  Or better yet - create multiple goals and hang them in places that will motivate you. 

If your goal is to brush your teeth everyday, print this out and hang it on your bathroom mirror.  Who could resist brushing their teeth when they see this little guy?


 I hoping to create more career oriented goals, but I'm having a lot of trouble creating an image to represent my goal:

  Maybe I can just use my calendar - once i get it made.  A calendar full of things to do isn't very inspiring - unless it's printed on colored paper!

Check out Calendars That Work for free calendar templates.  You can even have them emailed to you shortly before the beginning of each month.

 I just have one small problem with this new goal of mine... It kind of contradicts the three day job searching week.  I'm going to have to deliberate on that and figure out what to do.  Maybe I'll just black out Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday on the calendar before filling it in.

Have a good To-Do Tuesday - and seriously DO SOMETHING!  Here's a pic of my guitar paper doll from my inspiration board a couple of weeks back.  Just wanted to prove that I actually do switch out the guitars from time to time.

My Inspiration Board Has Not Inspired Me...Yet

First, I started my making a paper doll. Well not your standard paper doll, an INSPIRATIONAL PAPER DOLL. Since i want to learn to actually play the guitar, and i always mean to get around to working on it, I thought looking at Taylor Swift and changing around the guitar that she used on a bi-weekly basis might be just the thing to kick my butt in gear and get me off the couch and working on my guitar. We shall see...

This section of my inspiration board focuses on my future goals and dreams, with a poignant reminders of how difficult it is to escape your past.

Eminem reminds me to wake up everyday, embrace my past, and become a stronger, more successful person because of it.

Ashton reminds me... well of just how much I want to date Ashton. Now THAT's something to strive for!

Also included are some surfboards, cool as hell eye make-up, and some all over body tattoo's. Make of this what you will.

This last section is about what I want to be when i grow up: a PRINCESS!

There are also some serious parts thrown in, like that I'd like to run for office someday, I believe business owners should be able to decide whether they allow smoking in their establishment or not, and my new favorite quote ever....
"Don't let the mark you leave on the world be a dent in the couch."

Please feel free to share your inspiration boards. There can't be anything more embarrassing than having Taylor Swift show up twice :-)

Disclaimer: I only had Rolling Stone magazines available for this project. I had to work with what I could find. I'm unemployed, I can't afford to go out and by copies of Vogue.

To-Do Tuesday

Starting today, I'm inaugurating Tuesday as do SOMETHING day. I'm sure you will find that my "something" may end up being relatively small and meaningless, but hey, it's better than what I do on Mondays...

Check this out: Unemployment Project - (This website hosts a lot of random so-called "unemployment projects". Basically most of them are just things to fill the void).

Okay, so that's not mine. I haven't made mine yet, but as soon as I do, I'll post a pic for you. You may wonder how this relates to unemployment... especially since the example above focuses on fashion. I'm planning on doing a job inspiration board. Pictures of things that remind me why I went to law school in the first place, why I can't stand the thought of working at Target, and things that might motivate me to get out of bed a little earlier. Maybe a better descriptive name would be an anti-depression inspiration board.

I'd love to see pics of your results. I'd especially love to see pics that involve newspaper and/or notebook paper with one picture pasted haphazardly before giving up. I know we all like to wallow in our misery together. All that matters is that you tried to be inspired.

Todays Lesson: Try to be Inspired, Then Give up: That's What the Cool Unemployed People Do