Over the holidays I took some time to fill my brain with good movies, books and of course basketball .  In the evenings Ron, Zac and I have been snuggling up on the couch with blankets and popcorn to watch movies with hot cups of tea.  That’s been awesome.

I believe that we are all students of something.  There is something that interests us enough that we just can’t get enough of it.  Sometimes it’s not present 100% of the time, but then it will show up again and pull our attention from everything else.  It will make us want to have the emails, phone calls and text messages stop coming at us furiously so that we can just study … take in every bit of it … get lost in it.

Zac has been recording College Basketball games and I hear the constant drone of shoes on the floor, crowds chanting and then him pausing and rewinding to study a move that someone in the game performed.  Then he tells me to watch as he performs it and adds it to his repertoire. He does this for hours at a time sometimes.

He is a student of the game of basketball … that’s for sure. he LOVES it and has high aspirations in it.  (Which I believe he will achieve.)

I, on the other hand, am a student of people, learning and figuring things out. I love learning about people – why they do what they do … who they are … how they got that way.  I do this in person, in reading books and in movies.  I study life!

Over the holidays, I read two books about mental management that were awesome and made SO much sense to me.  They specialize more in sports, but can easily transition over to business and life.  I flew through those reading one completely over Christmas day in the car out loud to Ron and Zac on our marathon of driving.

The other book is a guilty pleasure that I decided to dive into.  I haven’t read a fictional novel since early last year when I finished Steig Larsson’s trilogy of novels.  I enjoyed those so much that I didn’t know what could possibly replace them in my mind – haha.  I’ve been looking at books and wanted to find another series that I could try.  Stumbled upon Hunger Games before Christmas and tried to buy it on iBooks, but they didn’t have it.  I asked for an Amazon card so I could get it through the Kindle app.  I started it less than a week ago and I’m already over 50% done with it.  I know there is a movie coming out about it and as I turn each page, I can see how it would make a great movie.  I truly hope they do it justice.  So now I’m hooked and will read all three of the books in this series.  Each morning I am trying to chisel out an hour (at least) to read more of this story.  I find myself loving the words on the page and savoring them because I know that I’m already half way through the book and I don’t want it to truly end … but I do want to know what happens.

… so … my DAMN Question for you today is …

What are YOU a student of?

What makes you tune everything else out and just study it … practice it?