All week long I’ve been trying to think of a “theme” for my
post. I couldn’t come up with anything witty and I wasn’t feeling clever. I’d
used up all my cleverness in an office email dealing with overflowing the
coffee pots – “do not waste the nectar of the gods on the counter tops.” That’s
all I got. But my wheels have been turning and I’ve been doing some reading. I’ve
got the craft-itch (which RARELY happens) and I’m also working on my self-proclaimed
“Be Better” campaign… and I’ve somehow come up with an accidental reoccurring
theme: Superheroes.
Reason 1: At work, we are launching a new product (and by WE
I mean our kick-ass IT team) to help with flexibility of workflow. I mostly know
nothing about it – however, I’m in charge of planning the launch party. A few
weeks ago, a group of us got together to brainstorm some ideas for this party.
Different ideas were thrown around – 80s music, karaoke, dance party, etc. but
the one idea that stuck was the idea of comic books. You know – like the POW
and BOOM and BIFF in superhero comic books. We could hang those around the
office – it would totally work out with our “initiator” new product. And so it
began. We are creating a superhero (The Initiator) and our entire theme
includes the BOOM and POP with our snacks, décor, and drinks. Our power point
presentation will have a superhero/comic book look about it. It’s going to be
awesome.
Reason 2: After reading Start Something That Matters, I spent
some time looking around the TOMS website – while paying specific attention to the
One Day Without Shoes movement (http://www.toms.com/onedaywithoutshoes/l).
I wanted to implement this within my office. Some people were skeptical – “gross
people not wearing shoes?!” – but others were ALL for it. So after extracting
my SRS (Simple Random Sample – I had to look back at exactly what percentage
that should be…) from the employees here, I sent out the email. There was a
surprising outpouring of support – which is awesome. I also gave people a cop
out – if you don’t want to go barefoot, wear socks. If that still freaks your
freak, wear shoes and donate to the Food Bank of Iowa (food or cash.) I wanted
people to join this movement with me – to do something bigger than themselves.
Superheroes in our own right.
Reason 3: My running buddy/fellow blogger/book club cohort
is also a superhero. And spreading the word that we are ALL superheroes. Check
out her blog and join in the movement. http://mollyandclementine.wordpress.com/
After reading her post, I decided I wanted
in. I wanted to be a superhero. So today, I’m heading to my parents’ to dig
through old pictures from my most awkward years and scan them to her and get
involved. It would be awesome if you could do the same. Doesn’t every kid (big
or small) want to be some sort of superhero? Why WOULDN’T you want to be one?
I think I’ll feel a little like a superhero over the next few
days – so much going on, and so little time to do it all. I’ve got a single-mom
shift today – 13 hour work day and double jobs, then tomorrow is my day long
training for indoor cycling – I’m slightly terrified about this. Sunday – which
should be a day of rest – will be anything BUT resting. IT’S RACE DAY!! So I’ll
be up bright and early on Sunday morning so I can head over to Drake and find a
parking spot (who knows where) so I can run my 10k, head home and shower, then
do my 3 hour stint at the yoga studio. After that I’ve got some time to relax,
and then I NEED some yoga in my life. After cycling for more than an hour on Saturday
and running for over an hour on Sunday… this girl’s legs will NEED some down
dog. And next week – will be a SLOW week. And I’m ecstatic. OITNB date night on
Monday, work on Tuesday – and NOTHING the rest of the week. Saturday marks
Opening Day for the Farmer’s Market and I’m STOKED to get myself a breakfast
burrito. And probably a chocolate beer. It just makes me smile to think about
it.
My newest read is called Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh –
and it’s about Zappos, the online shoe distributer. (Is this another reoccurring
theme? Shoes? First about TOMS, and now about Zappos. Interesting…) I wasn’t
sure about it at first, but this book is so much MORE than a business model.
This is a LIFE model. One part in there really stuck with me – and I think once
you have this imbedded into your brain, it will change your LIFE.
“I thought about how
easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and
just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness,
when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.”
After a conversation during a 5-mile run yesterday, we came
to the conclusion that we HATE money. I’d rather do something I love and get
paid shitty than do something I hate and make a ton of money. Sure I’d love to
be comfortable and never have to worry about money – wouldn’t we all? – but if I
hate what I’m doing day in and day out, the money doesn’t even MATTER. I just
want to be happy.
“Life has no remote,
get up and change it yourself.”
So if you feel like being a superhero, join us in the Evolution of Superheroes and send your
pictures and emails to molly.hanson4@gmail.com
and use “The Evolution of Superheroes” as the subject. If you want to go
shoeless on Tuesday the 29th for One Day Without Shoes, send me a picture
via text, Facebook, Instagram or email at slembrey05@gmail.com
and use #withoutshoes if you have a
Twitter account. You guys are awesome, and you’re ALL superheroes.
Start something that matters,
S
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