I love this…. go ahead, you can watch it again… I’ll wait.
Dwight and I have a lot in common actually. I used to listen to a lot of heavy metal… I can see how Mötley Crüe could psych you up. I used to crank up the music to be ready to face my day.
I think I need to channel some of that right now.
I was just discussing the idea of psyching yourself up with Eric – as we watched our daughter kick her soccer ball around the living room.
One of Claudia’s favorite movies is “Bend it Like Beckham”… in fact, she got that movie for her first Christmas (we thought is was a good girl power movie). Here’s the trailer if you haven’t seen it.
It’s her ‘psych yourself up’ movie. More relevant now as she’s learning to play soccer.
And here’s the best family related ‘psych yourself up’ story. Back in grad school, Eric and I were on a Thursday night bowling league. Games started at 6:00 or so and the lanes were right across the street from the Geology Dept. Every Thursday before bowling – Eric would watch fight scenes from Gladiator in his office.
True Story. Not sure what it did for his game – but he was ready to kick some ass anyway.
I’m on a mission to find my outlet… to find something to fire myself up. Music seemed to work for me in the past, and I miss my old tunes. It’s probably time for me to join the 21st century and download MP3′s of some of the old hair bands (turns out, they are mostly still on tape).
Hoping it can keep me ‘above the line’ as they say.
So tell me about your rituals… How do you to fire yourself up?
Try Pandora radio with an ipod – as long as you have wifi available it can find similar music to say “Poison or Bon Jovi or Van Halen” along with said band. Usually good mixes sometimes weird mixes but it lets you skip a couple here and there.
When I’m not feeling motivated at home (which is a lot of the time here lately) I listen to 80s music on my mp3 player. At work, my shift captain sings the “Rocky” theme–no words, just “dum da da dum” and so on. It’s hilarious and it really does work.
Thanks Monique – I haven’t tried Pandora… I’ll give it a shot!
Jayne – I think there’s something to humor as well – I love to laugh (who doesn’t?)… it gets you in the right frame of mind to really psych yourself up. The ‘Rocky’ theme really has become the ultimate song to get fired up, hasn’t it?