I did a lot of thinking and reading this past week about goal setting, motivation, and change.

I discovered Matt Cheuvront’s blog – Life Without Pants – and his eBook – The Inconvenience of Change – and will be reading that tomorrow while I wait in line with Peter to see Avatar (I’m transferring it to my Kindle).

This poem is especially inspiring to me today:

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

-from the "Think Different" advertising slogan created for Apple Computer in 1997

 

Sometimes I think that people must think I am one of the crazy ones…because I refuse to give up and usually choose the path less followed.

But that’s ok.

Sometimes I think that I worry too much about what others think.

Most tv dinners are rather healthy – at least the kind I pick out. But they are just not tasty. In fact the adjective I usually use to describe them is “bleh”. This has resulted in me usually taking a bite or two out of the meal and tossing the rest out. Sometimes I then make it down to the cafeteria to pick up a less than healthy option but usually I just don’t eat lunch – which isn’t healthy either.

While at Target this past weekend with Peter I picked up some goodies for the week. One item I found that looked too tasty to pass up was this adult style lunchable by Oscar Meyer Deli Fresh Creations. I originally couldn’t really see inside as there was a plastic cover on top but I liked that there were two kinds of meats and cheeses and it wasn’t terrible in the calorie department.

But then I opened it up today at lunch…

and found the surprise inside.

A tiny Milka chocolate bar.

I’m slightly obsessed with Milka.

I first discovered it at a specialty candy shop (which is no longer there) several years ago at the Tyson’s Corner Mall in Vienna, Virginia. Peter is familiar with Milka (despite not being as obsessed with chocolate as I am) and introduced me to it. It’s not that easy to come by and ever since then I pick up a piece here and then when I managed to find it. Last Christmas I scored a Milka pencil pouch (purple and soft with the cow!) at the Czech airport in the duty free store on the way home. It was filled with Milka bars of course. I managed to make them last from December ‘08 to nearly this past August.

It’s funny how something as small as the tiny Milka bar turned my lunch into this amazing, happy, experience.

This reminds me that I have to finish reading my Seth Godin book – Free Prize Inside:

some time soon – great Marketing tips!