Remember Fluid - Not Rigid

Gratuity: 26 years of a fulfilling flexible job that pays well.

Goal Work: Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -- Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)

Yesterday was an interesting day for my MIT and Goal Work.

 I ended up deciding that it did not make sense to buy the $500 dollar Rosetta Stone program.  I needed to do some more research.   I ended up finding out today that I can use an online version of Rosetta Stone  when my department's budget frees up later in the quarter or early second quarter.  So I had to be flexible and decide to wait to start my language learning.

My chess game with Derek ended up taking four hours.   We were two equally match opponents who ended up in a hard played draw.  Problem was that I ended up missing Yoga and making a major mess in the kitchen as I rushed to make home fries.  I also ended up drinking tons of DIET COKE while playing and hence was up all night because I could not sleep.   I am really trying to stay away from DIET COKE.  DIET COKE and CHINESE FOOD will be my downfall.  Guess what.  You guessed it.  My husband brought home the DIET COKE even thought I told him to pretty please not bring it home.   I have to have more will power even when I am spending all my energy on high demanding things like kicking my son's butt in chess.     The interesting thing about the chess game is that I am so glad I did it.  We had the greatest time.  It has been so many years since we played.   So the game was the impetus that messed up by routine but I loved it and would do it again!!

 I have to remember that I am trying to be more disciplined to bring more joy into my life so if a joyful undisciplined moment occurs I should continue to embrace it.  It is the undisciplined unjoyful things that I need to manage.  Maybe someday I can have the joyful moments and still not drink the DIET COKE and still clean the kitchen while I cook but until that time I will take the joyful moment, the DIET COKE and the Dirty Kitchen.

MIT and Goal Work: Missed Yoga and completed in a haphazard way.  Keep forgetting my 15 minute cleanup.
MIT: Clean Kitchen; Cook Squash;  Yesterday's Yoga