Come Forward: October

So, for that last few years of doing these projects, I have made a list of movies that fit the them, and then use a random number generator to pic the next movie on the list. I was doing that up until I got to this month. 

I mean, how do you have a movie called October Sky and not watch the movie when it's also October? 

Homer Hickman is a young man from Coalwood, West Virginia. When Russia lunches the very first satellite in space, it inspires Homer to learn more about engineering. He tries to make a rocket on his own and finds out that he did everything wrong, when he blows up the back fence on accident. He soon learns that he is going to need help to learn more about what he is doing. He does what is consider social suicide and starts hanging out with the "geek" at school. Soon, Homer and his friends have a launching pad just outside of the city to test their rockets. He starts to enlist other people in town for help (even though they are supposed to) and soo they start to really understand rockets and how they work. Everyone in town is having a great time watching them except for Homer's dad. Homer's dad, and most of the rest of the town, know that once you are born in this town it's hard to get out. Maybe one kids every few years gets own on a football scholarship. The rest will live, word and die in the coal town. However, we see that while he dad doesn't want him to get his hopes up about this being a living for him, he dos help out in small ways here and there, but has never seen him actually launch a rocket. However, once he does he tries to support him. 

So, other than "hard work will help push you through" how does this relate to staying motivated? Well, Work on the hardest thing first. 

Look, I now hat it was a mistake for Homer to make a rocket and set it off in his back yard. However, at the time he thought that was going to be the hardest thing was to find that right about of gun powder to load and then he would have a rocket. He did it and it failed. They he did a little bit of research and tried again. Then when that didn't work, talking to the "geek" at school was the next hardest thing. In truth sometimes what we think might be the hardest thing is really just a an very overwhelming small step. It's doing the thing that's embarrassing, or insane, that really something we have built up in our heads that it's going to be. 

Sometimes the hardest thing to do its start, sometimes it walking away or taking a break, sometimes it's letting go. However, something doing the hardest thing first is the best next step to take.