This Week's Challenge Write down three sentences as if they were for your own eulogy. Write down three statements you hope people would use to describe you and the life you lived. Do those statements match the kind of life you are living now? Do you need to make any changes? Reflect on your sentences and your life, and make the necessary adjustments.
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This Week's Challenge Write down three sentences as if they were for your own eulogy. Write down three statements you hope people would use to describe you and the life you lived. Do those statements match the kind of life you are living now? Do you need to make any changes? Reflect on your sentences and your life, and make the necessary adjustments.
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This is Cydni and I'm Sher. Here we are again with another Challenge Check-In, where Sydney is reminding me why I left middle school. Hear, hear, all right, ai, don get us started. Welcome to the Be your Own Hero Challenge Check-In.
Cydni:
But before we get into this week's Challenge Check-In, we will share with you a few thoughts that have been on our minds.
Sher:
Your mind, not my mind. Please leave me out of this. Our first category is advice from grandma.
Cydni:
In this category we will share advice from grandma, because we recently did advice from grandpa. You want to go first? What did your grandma have to say?
Sher:
Well, my grandma's died when I was fairly young, so I don't remember one of my grandma's, but I do remember my mom's mom. She died when I was fairly young, so I don't remember one of my grandmas, but I do remember my mom's mom. She died when I was nine years old and this is what I learned from her. I learned that kids always do the dishes Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Kids do the dishes and every time that I was at her house I remember doing the dishes with my cousins. So kids do the dishes.
Cydni:
That's a woman who learned through experience. Maybe my grandchildren will do the dishes. Maybe.
Sher:
She had eight kids. She learned she's like this is how we survive. We do the dishes.
Cydni:
I'm working on getting my kids to clear their dishes right now.
Sher:
That's good, good place to start.
Cydni:
Well, I'll tell you the advice from my grandma. I could hear it clear as day right now, while driving. She would say watch out for the car ahead of you, watch out for the car behind you, watch out for the car to the left of you and to the right of you and watch out for the son of a that comes out of nowhere.
Sher:
That's really good advice from grandma.
Cydni:
Little did I know one day I'd marry the son of a that comes out of nowhere.
Sher:
I've learned that lesson from him. Driving with my husband? No, I was driving near your husband.
Cydni:
Oh, that's where I learned that. And you saw, yes, I didn't look out for him and he came and he stole my heart. I could say that because today, while recording, it's our 19th anniversary. Way to go, ben.
Sher:
Happy anniversary we did it.
Cydni:
There's no end in sight. Okay, but I was also thinking, because we have a friend who just became a grandma, so I thought I would tell you a few modern names when you are coming up with a grandma name. My kids call their grandma Gigi, which is pretty popular. But I was liking some of these. I like Nona, nene, oma, uma. What did you call your grandma? I called her grandma. Oh, there's Tootsie, pippi, nina, minnie, mimi, kitty.
Cydni:
No, what did you call your grandma, grandma, yeah, oh, queenie is another one. So that's what I'm going to go with Queenie. Queenie, I came up with one for our friend. I said, since kids say Riz when it's cool and charming, I thought she could be the grizzler. That's really bad, but if you want it, I don't think she did and I told my kids and they said no, all right, we're moving on.
Sher:
The next category is summer goals.
Cydni:
In this category, we're going to share with you three summer goals. We have, and encourage you, a challenge within a challenge to come up with three summer goals. You can go first.
Sher:
My three goals are I'm still working on this one, I think I've shared it before at better organizing my time. The second one it kind of involves you, sydney. You ready? Clean this room? We're podcasting in. I know most of it's my crap, but still I want to make you help me. And the third one is this started with my niece, danielle. I learned about rucking. Tell me more. Rucking is when you walk with a weighted backpack or weight on you. Anyway, long story short, my good friend Shelly decided that we were going to do this and we both now have backpacks that are weighted, and Shelly has named the summer Ruck the Stroke.
Sher:
So, we're going on my one year anniversary of having a stroke. I am going to walk 12 miles with that weighted backpack and I'm going to ruck that stroke all over the place.
Cydni:
Ruck. Yeah, I'm excited for you. That's a good goal. Thank you, it's a big one.
Sher:
I believe in you. It is a big one.
Cydni:
Okay, my first goal definitely 100% was to clean this room down here with you and make this space our podcasting space, since we haven't quit yet. Yes, my second one's to not quit Good one. And then I wanted to have very low expectations. At first. I wrote down keep the house clean and I scratched it out and I put low expectations and a good attitude. I'm stopping there. That's it. That's great. I really like the low expectations Sydney.
Cydni:
So if I just help tidy up this room and make it a cool space for us to record in and have low expectations and a good attitude, then I'm going to be very happy this summer.
Sher:
I like that. I like that a lot, because Sydney does have very high expectations. Do I? Yes, you do. You want everything to always be perfect, which is good, but you can tone it down a notch.
Cydni:
It's annoying because Ben just said this over our anniversary dinner last night.
Sher:
Oh crap, Sorry, I don't ever want to be on the side of Ben. My bad You're a good friend. Now it's time to supercharge your vocab.
Cydni:
In this category. I give Cher a new word from Urban Dictionary most of the time that she has to try to use in a sentence without knowing the definition Smelfy.
Sher:
Smelfy. Okay, sydney likes to give me words that I don't know to make me feel smelfy.
Cydni:
You're so off. You're right that I do like to give you words. That is this category To discreetly sniff one's underarms before venturing into public is a smelfy. I like that word a lot. Smelfie yeah, it's good. And then I'm going to do a bonus one because I thought you would like this one. It is a cradar. The cradar is the ability to see whether someone be cray cray or not. I do like that. Your cradar is high functioning.
Sher:
Thank you, I should have had that in my classroom. That crater would have been going off the charts. Let me tell you.
Cydni:
That person over there giving themselves a smell fee. My crater is going off. And now what you all came for the challenge check in. This week's challenge was to write down three sentences, as if you were writing for your own eulogy, with the intention of does what you want people to say about you align with how you're living your life? I'm going to go first again. Keep it consistent.
Sher:
Number one. I wrote down that they would say Cher was grateful for the blessings that the Lord gave her. Two Cher loved her savior, her family and her friends that were like family very, very, very much. And three for better or for worse, cher was always loyal Loyal to God, loyal to her family, to her friends, to her students, to her school, loyal to Rudy. Cher was loyal.
Cydni:
Loyal is a good word. Thank you. I didn't really write three sentences. I wrote like a run-on sentence forever, so I'm just going to go with a theme. I feel like I want to be present and to have a lot of fun. I want my kids to feel loved and that I was present and I want anyone who walks into our door to feel loved. And then I asked my kids what they think I like to do the most and they all said clean.
Sher:
Are we going to go back to that high expectations?
Cydni:
Well, maybe because I thought okay, if they think that's all I do with my time, because I do, then I need to change that. So I'm going to lower the expectations. I do think that's a really good question to ask those in your life to say, hey, what do you think I love to do the most? Because if they say, spend time on your phone or complain or clean, then you might need to change some stuff. So that's what I'm going with. I love it.
