Choosing Adventure

As the work week moves to a close, I have spent a good amount of mental energy reflecting on the week and some of the things that I wrote this week.

I challenged people to set some New Month's Resolutions and to Move to Amazing, and I hope that everyone was able to be inspired by something that I wrote this week and you had a better week because of it. I hope that you pushed others around you to have an amazing week as well.

Yesterday morning my phone went off the deep end and began doing very crazy things. The inside screen ( Yes! I had an inside screen because I had a flip phone) of my phone started displaying everything upside down and backwards. I was quite concerned that this would be my last day with a phone that I loved from the day that we met. In honor of such an amazing life we shared together I continued to use my phone in the same way that I had used it for year. A friend texted me and I responded that I had to flip my phone upside and look in the mirror to read the text. She texted me a great compliment saying something like " You even know how to turn a broken phone into an adventure".

It made me smile, but as I went to the Verizon Store and purchased my new iPhone that I am a little bit scared of I was a bit sad. The store manager told me that they wouldn't be able to recover any of my numbers from my old phone. I was upset that I would have to go through the process of regaining all of the the numbers that I had stored. This was not going to be an adventure, but a mundane task of recovery.

A few friends suggested that I just send a big facebook message or make a facebook event to quickly regain many of my lost numbers, but then I realized that it is important to choose adventure. The loss of my phone is actually a chance to reconnect. It is not only an opportunity to regain numbers of family and friend, but a chance to reach out to friends that I have from all over the country and reconnect.

I like to think that I surround myself with amazing people that do amazing things and this is just an opportunity to hear about all of the cool stuff that people are doing while regaining their contact information.

Choose to make a boring task an adventure for yourself. Invite someone to join you on the adventure and see how it makes you feel.

If you are wondering how my 240 miles for the month of November is going here is what I have accumulated so far:

11/1- 8.5 miles

11/2- 8.5 miles

11/3- 7 miles