Teach Yourself!

First let me talk about my weight loss. I went from exercising every day to exercising twice a day. Now I'm at exercising twice a day every other day. So, one day I go to gym in morning and night, morning is on the elliptical for 30 minutes, and that is being increased by 5 minutes every week, and then at night I warm up on the elliptical for 15 minutes and then lift weights for 15 minutes and then 15 more minutes on the elliptical. I'm not sure I am doing the right things on the weights, but I am doing something. I started at 199 pounds and as of this morning I am at 191. What makes me really happy is when I get up in the morning and weigh myself without anything on using my bathroom scale it is down to 187. I haven't been that low in a long time. I know it isn't accurate, but feels good! I think it is important to get the day off. Today I exercised in the morning and in the evening then tonight I went dancing and danced for 3 hours. I had a great day. Tomorrow I won't exercise and then I will again on Sunday. Let's see what happens.

For my job this summer I have taken the initiative to make a power point presentation for everyone in California to use to make presentations in high schools. I have never been taught how to make a power point presentation. I have done simple ones before, just put pages that changed when I pushed the space bar. When I had originally started to work on this power point I thought I would do it the same way. Then someone sent me a power point that used a lot of animation. I didn't even know what animation was until I saw their presentation. Then I learned, I did a lot of trial and error and eventually I came up with a presentation I am proud about. I finished that a week ago, and then I found out how to add a narrative, and this week I found out how to have one set of slides projected and another set of slides on the computer monitor so the person can give the presentation and read what they are supposed to say. I am happy about all the things I learned by making this presentation. I think that we all need to keep teaching ourselves things because stagnation is never a good thing.