Come Forward: June

Cinderella Man is one of those movies that I have heard about since it came out, but never actually watched it. I finally got the chance to see it and now I get it. 

I really is a great movie. 

James J. Braddock is a mind who loves to box. However, in the year leading up to, what would be come, World War II his is down on his luck. He boxes, but doesn't have a steady job. The fights aren't paying him enough to keep his family together and keep a roof over their heads. Eventually, he license to box get revoked, and he is left without any choices to keep his family afloat. He also has to hide the fact that he has a broken hand from the dock managers, or they won't let him keep the job he has. 

When the kids get sent away, due to sickness, he begs the people he used to fight for for money to get the heat back on in his house, so his kids can come home. 

The kids come home and his luck starts to slowly change. His old coach comes and says that he can have him come back and do one more fight. It wasn't going to be anything crazy, but it would be able to get him back on his feet, and give him one more chance in the ring. 

Well Braddock had other plans, but he didn't know that until he got back in the ring. Once he was there there was no getting him out.

Here is what I love about this story, that also helped me to get back on the big project. Is do the small things. 

I got so far off the project that I have been working on that I didn't know what to do. I thought that maybe I wouldn't be able to come back to it, or follow through in the way that I had been. However, I just started small and wrote what I know I wanted to write for that next part. I didn't plan on goin crazy, but I started with a small thing and before I knew it I was right back to where I was before. 

Sometime we get so overwhelmed b how big the project, or problem, is that we forget that we don't need to tackle everyone all at once. We can start small and work out way up. 

The Man Behind The Curtain: June

We are half way there! 

How is it already the the last day of the first half of the year? Time does fly when you are having fun!

Let's just jump right into this month's movie: Matilda.

Matilda was born into a family that really didn't want her. She was left alone and made to look after herself from a very young age. However, Matilda is special. She was able to write her name from a baby, could ready since she was three, and make her own food since she was five. She loved to learn, and love to read most of all. 

However, her parents didn't want her to go to school. See, her dad runs a car shop, and not an honorable one. He has been cheating people on the cars he sells, and he is getting stolen car parts. He doesn't want to be busted by the cops, so he has Matilda picking up all of the packages while her parents are out for the day. 

However, Matilda starts going to the library when she is waiting for the parts She is able to work her way through the whole children's section in a matter of years. She loves reading anything and  everything and she really wants to go to school.

When the principal buys a car from her father, her father agrees to let Matilda go to school. The only reason he agrees is because the Principal is a mean a bitter lady, who does not like children. 

However, Matilda's teacher, Ms. Honey, is a wonderful person who has had a hard life growing up. She love the children that she teaches and hope that one day everything will works itself out. 

Matilda learns that she has great powers of control. She can movie objects around her with her mind. She shows these powers to Ms. Honey. When Matilda learns that the Principal is actually Ms. Honey's aunt, and stole Ms. Honey's house and money from her, Matilda uses these powers to get everything back from her. 

Let talk about self esteem for a minute here. The thing about self esteem is that when you are young you have in droves. When you are a kid you really don't care what anyone thinks about you at all. As we get older we start to doubt ourselves, and then when other people who doubt themselves start making comments, we start to hid who we really are. 

I think there is who think we should act like and dress like, and then there is the person we deem to be acceptable to society. 

Over the last few years I have really stopped caring what others think. Now, don't get me wrong I'm not totally over caring. However, I have found that if I kept worry about what other have felt, I would have no done so much in my life. I would not have found passions I have, I would not love wearing the clothes that I wear, and I can honestly say, that I love it. 

I know there are a lot of things that I do are considered childish, or weird, but I have had so much fun doing them. I think that by doing the weird and childish thing it helps us to balance all the stuff we have to deal with as an adult. 

Be a little childish, it could make your day brighter. 

Come Forward: May

I really thought that I was caught up. However, it appears that I am not. That's totally ok! I am fighting every instinct in me that wants to bash myself over the head because I was doing so well. I know that this would be totally counter productive. 

I took a year off of projects last year, reluctantly. This time last year I was still trying to push myself to "make up" for the lost time. When I finally let go and said I can't do it, it was s relief. I hadn't realized that I wasn't having any fun with the projects anymore. that every single time I thought about doing them would send me into a panic. This year has been crazy, but I am loving the projects again. 

I may not be doing them how I thought that I would, but I am doing them in a more conductive way, that make life easier, and makes the projects more fun. 

The big project that I am working on this year, I felt bad because I put it down for a few months. I didn't mean to, but time just got away from me. When you stop working on something you sometimes start to think that you can't pick it back up, or that it will never be as good as you originally thought that it was going to be. That You ruined all chances of success by not working on it as much as you had been. Then I did two things, looked at my list of Motivation advice, and watched The Pursuit of Happyness.

 Chris Gardner's life is slowly turning to shambles. He invested all of his savings in a bad deal, that he is trying to make work. The money that he thought that he was going to make back quickly was dragging in. This slow income puts hot coals under Chris and his wife's relationship. They are trying their best, but nothing is working how they want it to. After seeing the work the stock brokers to, he tells his wife he is going to try his hand and becoming one. He is great and numbers and with people and figures that once he knows the ropes he will be able to make this new venture work. The problem is is that in order to get the job he has to work as an unpaid intern. 

   

His wife is having none of it and decides to leave him. She leaves him with no money, and penniless job, and their five year old son. The only income that Chris has for the next six weeks is to try and sell off the last of his bad deal while working an unpaying job. Every time he thinks that he can't get any worse, everything goes more down his. He gets robbed, he winds up homeless, the government takes his money for taxes, and he is dealing with no other choice but to bring his son with him on this ride. 

Yet, though everything is falling apart, Chris is determined to put everything back together. Everyday he picks himself up, and chooses to keep going. The weeks and weeks worth of work are relentless but they all pay off for him in the end. 

One of the things that Chris does though the whole movie is make a list. It's not written down, and repeated or anything like that. However, he keeps checked things off of this mental list, and keeps checking his progress. 

When I started this big project at the start of the year, I didn't think I was going to be anywhere near where I am now. I didn't think I would even make it as far as I have. Yet, I am so much further ahead that I ever dreamed possible that I realized that I could keep going. 

You have to sop every once in a while to see where you are at. You have to walk away and come back sometimes, and sometimes you walk away for longer than you think you will. Also, check to see how far you have come. The only way you will fail is if you totally stop.