burner.

Happy Monday! I can't believe next weekend is already Easter - this marks a whole year since I have been completely out of school, internships and started "real life".

I had lunch with a girlfriend this past weekend and we always end up falling into a hardcore motivational chat about life (in a good way). I find it so interesting to hear and see how others view the world around us, and it helps me stay open-minded.

This time, something from our chat really struck me - somehow we got into an analogy about the things we put on the "back burner". 

How many times have we said this? 

I don't have time for it, I got a couple projects on the back burner. 

This got me thinking - how often to we pull things out from the back burner? Should we? 

In so many ways, I feel like I am finally really starting to live my life in the moment, or focusing on the front burner. When you're cooking, that's usually the most important part of to have done right and finish. However, the back burner can contain the flourish and spice for the meal. We still need it, just not at this moment. 

Reality is, we can't complete the meal without the back burner. They need to be taken off of simmer sometime, or else they get burnt (and lost). 

With spring awakening around us, I pledge to take my projects off the back burner and put them to work in front of me. It's time. 

Just a thought. 

word.

It's really true, sometimes when you are least expecting it, the thing you need the most pops up right in front of you. 

Looking at my calendar for the next few weeks, I'm very excited for the amount of interesting and fun activities, events and work gigs coming up. 

The other day, someone said to me, "I don't know how you do it. Can you really do all that well?"

That really struck a chord with me, and I haven't been able to shake that comment off.

Even more frustrating, I couldn't figure out why I was taking this one slightly negative comment so deeply to heart as opposed to the postitive ones. 

This morning, I was flipping through a newspaper and came across the horoscope section. 

Instead of skipping it over as I usually do, I read mine. It said: 

“You have worked hard to get to your present position and you are not about to give it up, no matter what others say you should do. 

Possession is nine-tenths of the law and you are simply not going to move.” 

Word. 

Hearing this from something completely removed from my life was refreshing. I'm not sure if I believe in the stars, but they had my back today. 

Not all signs are physical. Today proved they come in many different forms.  

I'm also going to think twice before I skip over the horoscopes from now on.