You can learn anything you want to.

Did you know? I discovered it recently and was pleasantly surprised.
You can really learn how to draw, run marathon, do yoga, and many-many other things.
Yes, there's a saying that 'hard work beats the talent'. But I never thought of it, or didn't take it seriously till recent time.

I wasn't taught to challenge myself, to achieve things. I was just satisfied with what I had. It was always very difficult for me to run and do any physical activity (I'm not fat or something, and never was. Just weak and untrained). So I just accepted I couldn't run. Yes, I have legs, they function ok, I can walk. Just not run.
I was ok with it.
Once I started working out, I used a short run as a warm up. Just in 10 minutes of light jog I wanted to die. I ran 4 times a week for 10 minutes on the interval program (1 min run, 2 min walk).
In a month I increased the time to 15 minutes.
After 2 months I decided to try running as long as I could. The result just blow my mind - 20 minutes of jogging non-stop! It was a big victory for me back than.
Now I run 6 miles in less than an hour and plan to train for my first 10k run.

I used to be ordinary in drawing. Not horrible like when you intend to draw a horse and the result is something with four legs)) but also not very good.
And I saw an online course 'learn drawing before the end of the year' that started in October. I started with them, but didn't make it through. Now I have this book 'you can learn to draw in 30 days', will try it out and put updates here.

I also want to learn how to sing, and maybe one more foreign language.

Just never stop challenging yourself. It's the only way to keep your mind and body sharp.

Ok, I'm back

Back from amazing vacation, from beautiful San Diego to my everyday life, fitness, house stuff, my blog), ect.
We're moving pretty soon, so mainly what I do is look for a new place.

I did my workout today after almost a week break, and I felt like I missed the routine. It keeps the life on track, keeps everything together. Even when you don't go to the office every day, you need discipline, or you'll just spend half of the day in bed playing 'candy crush' :-)
And of course I felt much better after the workout, I missed everyday challenges. 

Vacation diary

We're in San Diego till next Friday. It's been only two days now, and loved every minute of it! I'm looking forward to the day at La Jolla beach tomorrow))

Happy Fourth of July!

I live in US almost for a year now, but none of the holidays I experienced here is that big as the Independence day. It's surprising for me, and it's beautiful. Usually national holidays are just long weekends for most of the people. But the 4th of July is really celebrated.
I admire people who value so much what they have, even if they didn't experience something else.
And I'm very grateful I have a chance to live in this great free country =)

5-minutes journal

I went to a business camp once and there we were told about 'morning pages' technic. Every morning first thing you do (after brushing your teeth, I guess) is sit down and write 3 pages about your plans for the day, about things you are grateful for, and stuff. This helps to clarify your thoughts, set plans for the day, obviously, and put you in a positive mood from the beginning of the day, which is an important thing.
But not everybody can squeeze 3 pages of text out of himself on the daily basis, and not everybody has time to do it in the morning. When I tried doing it, it took me from 30 minutes and longer, and I'm pretty big of a graphomaniac myself! So I imagine it can be a real challenge for people who don't like/can't write.
That's why when I heard about this technic of '5-minutes journal', I liked it much better. It's so much easier - you spend only 5 minutes a day on it, and you answer specific questions, and don't need to write a lot of stuff and blah.
There are 5 questions, 3 of them you answer in the morning, and 2 in the evening, to go to sleep in a positive mood as well.
Day questions:

1. What I am grateful for today? 
e.g. I am grateful for waking up healthy, next to a person I love most in my life, etc. 
Basically good stuff that's going on in your life and that you're grateful for, pretty easy.

2. What would make today great?
e.g. A lunch with my dear friend, nice weather, successful business meeting. 
These should be your plans for the day, that you describe in present time, and imagine they go well.

3. Daily information ('I am' statement). 
 e.g. I am a popular blogger, I make good money with my blog, everybody wants to work with me. 
Again, in the present time, statements about things you would like to achieve, imagine you have them already.

Night questions:

4. Three awesome things that happened today.
These can be even tiny-small things like someone held the door for you, or nice weather, or a beautiful sunset that you watched. You always can find at least something positive in your day. This will help you go to sleep in a good mood.

5. How I can make today better?
This one shouldn't be critics or something. This is more like pont 3 - things about yourself you wish you did better, in present time.
e.g. I did two workouts today, and I'm in a great shape! 

And it does work, and it helps. When you do it every day, it becomes a habit, and first things you think of when you wake up are things you are grateful for. This is amazing, it makes you so much happier!

Have I tried it? - Yes. I like it, I will continue doing it. Do I do it every day? - No) I do it when I remember about it, sometimes only in the evening, but I'm doing it.

BTW, you can buy special journal for it, with printed questions and all, just google it.  

how the dreams work

I've heard somewhere the biggest secret of all magicians "to make some wish come true, you have to want it more than anything on the Earth, and then let it go. And only when you let it go, the Universe will fulfill your wish". Because until you let go, you're in the way and the Universe can't really do its job.

Looking back on my life I can say it's true. You need to have a picture in your head of what you want to have (get, achieve, become), and then let the Universe do the work. Forget the question 'how', it's not your business, how.

But what should you do meanwhile? Sit and wait? No, nothing comes out of nowhere - it's basic physics, not even rocket science. Just do your thing. Everyday show up and do your thing. Whatever you think will get you there where you want to be. If you want to be a writer - write, you want to be a dancer - dance, practice, every day. Enjoy it, it's not about the destination, it's about the journey. So if you want to be a popular blogger, don't check everyday 'am I famous yet!?", just write, take pictures, enjoy your thing. That's the main point.

I'm writing it more for myself, because I'm kind of in a strange place of my life right now. I'm trying to figure out what I would like to do, and I like this social media stuff a lot. So I'm trying out most popular platforms. This blog thing doesn't go that well so far =) but I'll give it some time.