I'm a lifelong learner, but let's get serious

All I wanted to do was to watch (and follow) a yoga DVD.  Sounds pretty simple right?  It used to be easy in 1985 when we had TV's and VCR's, at least I thought that was easy enough.  Now jump to the 21st century with wide screen plasmas and DVD's, DVR's, ABC, LMNOP, etc. etc.  I still have to 'think about' how to turn the TV ON!

In our house:

• The TV is a Mitsubishi widescreen digital TV.

• The DVD Player is made by SONY.

• And we have a box for our HDTV cable (a luxury my husband will never give up!)

• Oh, and don't let me forget the tuner for surround sound! (another luxury as above).

I think there are only 3 total remotes for all of these, but I could be missing one.

I think I know the process of playing a DVD now, but if I at least blog about it, it will become more entrenched in my mind for future use.  At least that is my hypothesis.

1.  Turn on the TV, the cable box, the tuner and the DVD player.  This part is pretty easy as they still have on/off buttons which are pretty easy to locate, even if you are visually impaired.

2.  Now, pick up the Mitsubishi TV remote and press INPUT.  This makes no sense to me so I just have to memorize it.  All I want to do is have the TV play the DVD, but for some reason I have to say--Hey TV---INPUT!

3.   Now from the TV screen select HTMiII and hit enter.  What?  I think this is just man code for--your wife will never touch the remote again!

4.  Now pick up the Sony DVD remote and select play.  Now it won't really play yet.  The title will come up and you can make more selections, so you have to select what you really want on the screen and then hit play again.

AAAaaahhhhh, now my yoga....why am I so tense...??? and tight..???and irritable....????

Someday we will simplify this process yet again.  I'm not sure if that is a wish or a fear.  In any case, as always, I will learn to adjust and deal with it.  The Yoga is worth it.

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Biker Beliefs

I spent this past Saturday numbing my behind on the back of a cherry red Honda 750 with saddle bags. Yes, I have now succumbed to donning a hair flattening tight helmet, while wrapping my arms around my husband's waist and holding on for dear life, traveling up to 60 mph with nothing between me and the pavement but my jeans and jacket! It's the least I can do to support my husband's new love of the great outdoors. All kidding aside, we decided to take a long trip of 87 miles to Batesville, Indiana to visit Stonebridge Inn and Spa---the destination of a coaching event I'm hosting in November. If you've never visited this fantastic Bed and Breakfast, you are really missing out. It's gorgeous and well worth the trip. Anyway, the day was beautiful and I wish I could show you a picture like the one above of the two of us as a cool couple riding freely with the wind flowing through our hair, but in actuality, we really look like this.

Yes---the cool couple with helmet heads. I am amazed at the number of riders who don't wear helmets and I was also amazed at how much attention it takes to operate the bike safely, especially with your wife literally breathing down your neck! Mark did a great job and I've got a new appreciation for the bike. Sometimes you just have to try something before you realize the benefits.

For those of you who don't know the story, one of my neighbors was burned badly in a motorcycle accident when I was about 9 or 10 years old. That, coupled with another motorcycle accident which occurred right in front of my childhood home, and my father colliding with a deer ala motorcycle (which split his helmet in half and broke several ribs), gave me the belief that motorcycles are always unsafe and bikers always get hurt. With Mark's new found love and desire to include me (I got the helmet for Christmas), I had to re-examine this belief and found that I could look at this as fun if I felt comfortable about the safety. So we agreed never to ride on the highway, never in bad weather or rain, always with the proper clothing and always with helmets. The result: Saturday was a spectacular day, even with the numb derriere!

Are You A Fraud?

For some reason, this past week, I kept running into the same question from numerous independent and unrelated sources. "What if people find out that I'm not as good as they think I am?" At first I thought this was just some mind trash that women say to themselves pretty frequently, because I have been known to think it now and then myself. However, I surveyed more than one male and found out they say it too! In fact one male friend of mine responded, "Hell yeah! I say that all the time!" So it's not gender related at all. It's just generic mind trash. I wasn't so surprised to hear it, I was just surprised it was so universal!

So I guess now the question is----what do you do about it? How do you stop saying or thinking that? What do you replace it with? Any ideas? I'd love to have more input.

I find it interesting just to think about a room full of people, where each person has a conversation bubble above their head.

If only we could see all the mind trash simultaneously, a room full of people all thinking that they are not as good as they are perceived. Of course, the ideal is to change this thought. How about, "they have no idea how good I really am and I'd love to explore and support how good they are as well!"

I love this quote from Marianne Williamson. I think it sums it up quite nicely.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."


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