Variety

I went to the gym today and realized that I did not feel like doing a leg work out. Something about squats and leg extensions just sounded painful and boring. So, I just went straight to upper body. I usually start with legs to get them out of the way. I've heard that working the legs and doing other exercises that work out the largest muscle groups releases hormones which makes all the other muscles grow more. In any event, I skipped legs...until the end. Towards the end of my workout, I felt like my body wanted to do some squatting. So, instead of doing the normal squat machine, I loaded up some plates on a barbell and did about 4 sets of real squats. I then moved over to the squat machine and did two more sets. I threw in some leg extensions and leg curls until failure for good measure. In the end, I worked out my legs much more than usual and I started the workout without an inclination to do legs.

I think it was the fact that I saved the legs till the end that led me to do more...by why more? Why didn't I just do the normal leg workout. Sometimes after about 20 or 30 minutes of working out some chemicals seem to get flowing in the brain which make you feel like you just "love" to workout. You feel happy and proud that you are working out and it feels fun to be there. So, by the end, maybe the fun hormones were firing away and doing 3x as much leg work just sounded fun.

Or, perhaps some of it was due to the fact that I did legs in a different order. And, this is the point of the blog post. As I pondered the fact that changing up the order actually led to more working out instead of less, I realized that my personality just likes variety. I took the Meyers Briggs test and found out I am an ENTJ. One of the traits on an ENTJ is that they are easily bored with repetition. It was actually freeing to learn this as a personality trait because it helped me understand that not everyone gets bored so easily as I do. I also am learning that I have to structure my life and work around this propensity to get bored easily by repeated tasks.

On the one hand it is a challenge. In web design for example, I benefit financially from doing a task many times because I get quicker at the task. If I am billing by the project, I make much more the 10th time I do a task than I do the first time. But, believe it or not, sometimes I Just don't feel like doing certain tasks because I've done them so many times before. I procrastinate a job that pays quite easily just because it seems tedious or boring. On the other hand, I'll spend an entire Saturday trying to learn a new web design skill for a project that is only a hopeful project.  But, I love learning the new trick. I don't even mind that much if I don't get the job to which it pertains. Just the excitement of growing and learning is a motivating.

So, I'm pondering how the desire to do something new can be financially rewarding. Learning tasks once in a rudimentary way seems to not lead directly to revenue. But, perhaps if I were too teach what I learned then it could produce revenue. I really love to teach. Every time I learn anything new, I like to teach it. The subject doesn't really matter. Another option is to learn new web design tricks and teach employees how to repeat the tasks...this is probably the most direct method. However, being a teacher of well...anything new I learn sounds fun. Here are some things I could teach on:

• Discounts on Disney World hotels (seriously, I have some amazing tricks and an amazing track record)
• Web Design
• Incorporating a business
• Taxes
• College Ministry
• Relationship between Taxes and Economic Growth
• Saving for retirment
• Buying a car
• Insurance

Well, I'll be sure to share with you my next greatest lesson.