It can be a daunting task to spend an abundance of time indoors during a stormy or snowy week. A wise caretaker will have a handy list of indoor activities for such times. It will certainly help them to keep everyone's sanity intact! Although there are many activities one can engage in during such times, many have been done time and time again. Who hasn't put together a couple dozen puzzles, or spent an entire day watching movies and baking cookies. Well how about trying something new? Think outside the box and stimulate the imaginations of your kids by setting out for an imaginary adventure underwater. It will be a time they just may remember more than you will even know. While it could, creating a model submarine doesn't have to require expensive and complicated kits. Older kids may do well with a plastic model they can snap together, bought at a local hobby store. They may even have something that the older child can paint themselves, giving them an activity that could occupy a good portion of their day. Who know, it may even spark an interest in a new hobby! This craft, however, is geared towards the younger child. It is a simple craft that they can take their time with, but will love doing so because it involved clay and lots of color. You will need the following list of materials: White modeling clay such as Crayola Washable Markers Cardboard roll, optional Chenille stems in silver Construction paper, white Glue Paintbrush Recycled box Scissors Water container Using the clay, sculpt a model submarine hull. You can use an empty toilet paper roll as a form and roll the clay around it, or even a paper towel roll for a jumbo sized submarine. Bend chenille sticks into a T shape and press into the hull. These will be your propeller. While the clay is fresh from the pack, add stripes, rudders, a conning tower, porthole windows, and a periscope. Using fresh clay ensures that it will stick together. Cut the top out of a box and make a diorama. Encourage kids to create an underwater scene fresh from their imaginations using crayons, markers or paint. Air-dry the scene. Glue your background and submarine into the box. When the weather outside is frightful, make inside delightful! Get the materials needed and stash them away in a box so that when the rain comes, so will the fun. You'll be at the top of your kids list of favorite people, and rainy days will no longer hold doom and gloom for your household.
Can goal setting actually be detrimental to our success? Imagine setting a goal that will be a high point of your life. Getting there will be painful, but worth it. But after all of the work you fall short and never realize the dream? Or worse yet, reach the goal and find that it wasn't what you wanted after all. Was the journey worth it?
The problem with getting tied up in trying to reach a goal for it's own sake is that there is so much tied up in the final result. If the desired result is not achieved then everyone gets disappointed. It only takes a few times for this to happen before your mind will start working against you.
How does your mind work against you? First of all realize that your brain will do everything it can to keep you from pain. That's part of the reason we don't go around walking into doors all the time. It's also why we have a bit of trepidation using heavy power tools for the first time.
Failure is painful and the brain will learn that when we don't meet goals there is pain involved. So instead of even doing the work that would require us to say "no" when it comes time to measure the goal, we just don't do the work.
And the work can bite back.
A lot of people will be familiar with the phone solicitor example. This job has one of the highest hiring rates around. This industry also has a reputation for burning through employees. Why is that? There is a daily measure of whether a number of sales were made in a day. If that number of sales was not made, then it's a failure.
It's very difficult for most people to make the sales numbers on a daily basis, so the people working the phones have a tremendous amount of failure in their lives. So rather than facing failure every day, they just stop showing up.
How's that for avoiding pain?
You will notice in this example that the only thing going for the worker was making the goal. The process of achieving the goal was painful. That is, they were trying to make sales on the phone. This is an unpleasant experience and the sole reason for doing it was to achieve the goal. Since the goal wasn't being met in most cases, it became a totally unfulfilling experience.
Let's switch that around and place an attainable goal along with an enjoyable process.
Many people enjoy playing sports and it's pretty easy to measure results and goals. Cycling is a great sport, so that will be our example. Imagine you have the goal of riding 20 miles through beautiful countryside on a Saturday afternoon. You've done a lot of riding, so 20 miles is within your reach.
From the beginning you are enjoying yourself. The warm sun feels nice against your skin and the wind plays with your hair. The bicycle flows down the road and fragrant flowers perfume the atmosphere.
This sounds like a bit of fun, doesn't it?
Before you know it, the twenty miles are up and you feel great! You've accomplished your goal, and you even felt great doing it.
But what if you didn't finish the goal? As you passed an elegant bistro, what if a close friend saw you and invited you to stop by for a moment. The remainder of the day was spent relaxing on the veranda. You would have missed out on the goal, but everything up to that point had been enjoyable, so there's no reason for you not to take it up again.
This shows some of the reasons why goals should be guides for where we want to go, but we must be sure that the ride along the way is going to be as much fun as getting there.
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