If I had a billion dollars I would:
Today’s art is an Andy Warhol style painting of a female Maltese dog with a billion dollars.
Today’s #Bloganuary prompt: If you had a billion US dollars, how would you spend it?
I hate chores. They are so mundane and boring.
Most challenging? Can I say ALL of them?
I don’t particularly enjoy doing the dishes. I have tried to motivate myself and set a standard that dishes get washed or put in the dish washer immediately, and I will do alright with this for a few days or maybe even a week. Until. Until the dishwasher is full. Until I do some fancy cooking and get 8390483 things dirty.
I’m also not a fan of cleaning up animal poop. The Litter Robot automated litter box is worth every penny. There’s still the dogs’ poop, but… we manage.
If I had three wishes, I might just use one of them to wish to never have to do chores again.
Today’s #Bloganuary Prompt: What chore do you find the most challenging to do?
From Oxford Languages, by way of Google:
suc·cess /səkˈses/ noun: success; plural noun: successes
If I had to pick a definition, I’d go with the first one—the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
Uninspired by today’s prompt, I had more fun crafting the featured image for this post using Dall•E. I asked for a princess on the flag pole next to the castle at the end of a level from Super Mario Bros. I don’t think it nailed it, and the princess is certainly a bit funky looking… but it will do!
Today’s #Bloganuary prompt: How do you define success?
This is an interesting prompt for me. The answer to the question “Has a book changed your life?” is clearly yes. The interesting parts lie in what books, and how.
In high school, my English teacher gave me Watership Down and The Sound and The Fury to read for book reports. I loved the former, it’s one of my all-time favorite books, and I was not too fond of the latter. However, both deepened my appreciation for the English language and literature–both capital L Literature and regular old literature.
The most recently impactful book would have to be Adam Grant’s Think Again. I was going through a rough time at my job, and I was in the process of interviewing for my now-current job with Automattic. This book gave me the courage to re-think my situation and to make the bold leap to leave a company I’d been with for 15 years.
A book in progress that I feel will be highly impactful when I finish and put it into practice is Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. I’ll be sharing a review with my thoughts on this one soon.
Other impactful books are the books that inspired my Four Pillars of Health series:
Also, I feel that any book well read changes me. As I read, I absorb a little bit of it, and I may change in myriad ways. I learn, and I become curious about new and different topics.
And lastly, I would be remiss not to mention The Animal Manifesto, which is partly responsible for my decision to become a vegetarian.
Today’s #Bloganuary prompt: Has a book changed your life?