Choose to Change Your Life Today

Filed under Note to Self by on March 29, 2010 at 8:10 am {no comments}

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”

Everyday is a choice.   Everything you do is a choice.  You can choose to have a good day.  You can choose to change, or not to.  If you are dissatisfied, you can choose differently.

Circumstances are usually beyond our control, but you decide what to make of them. You have the power to seek help if you need it. You can think positively or continue the cycle of negativity, its your choice.

I’m dissatisfied with my job and there are things about myself I want to change, but I can put in motion a plan to change these things.  I can’t quit my job tomorrow, because I need to pay rent and buy groceries, but I can choose to plan my escape.  I want to write.  And so I write.  I want to be happy and content with the things I have, so I will try to be.

Today you can choose to be happy, or you can choose to give in to other influences and be in a bad mood.

Its not usually wise to jump without looking or planning.  Exorcise responsibility and common sense.  But make a plan of action.  Follow through.

Choose action.  Choose a positive outlook.

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

Today I will choose to (try to) fight off negative thoughts.  What choices will you make today?

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Who are You? Who will You be?

Filed under Site News by on March 26, 2010 at 9:00 am {one comment}

Hello, I’m Amanda.

I’m the person behind the words you read on Not Enough Coffee.  This is where all the blogging advice blogs say I should tell you about how great I am and how im super qualified to tell you what to think.   Well…..  fuck that.

Im 28, I sleep too much, and drink too much coffee.

I have a mountain of student loan debt from a wasted education that is unfinished and unusable, I watch too many movies, I have an unhealthy love of Star Wars, I sometimes drink too much vodka, and I work in a soul sucking and spine crushingly boring job that I hate, in an industry based on greed and ignorance.

Everyday I see and interact with people who are selfish and completely unaware of themselves or others around them.  They are rude and lazy and they make me lose all faith in humanity. They are the consumer frenzy.

I don’t want to despise people, and I don’t want to think its all hopeless.  In less than 2 years I’ll be 30 and to steal from Lethal Weapon, “I’m getting too old for this shit.”  (more…)

The One Thing You Must Learn About Life

Filed under Note to Self by on March 25, 2010 at 8:15 am {no comments}

John Crichton: My grandmother used to say life is a great wheel. Sometimes it grinds you down into the mud, other times it lifts you up into the light.
Ka DArgo: Are we strapped to this wheel?
John Crichton: That’s a given. The point is, is that most times you get a second chance. You just gotta wait for the wheel.
~Farscape

“Life is full of ups and downs. The trick is to enjoy the ups and to have courage during the downs.”

Life tends to work on a cycle.  Good times never seem to last, and bad times sometimes never seem to end.   But they do. (more…)

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