Do You Wake Up With an Aching to Start Your Day?

Go to Bed With a Plan, Wake Up With a Purpose

Do You Wake Up Wondering?

Do you wake up wondering what you are going to do to start your day? Or, possibly you have the hour before work planned out purposefully down to the last detail, but once you get to work - is the story a little different?  Does it take you a while to get your day started? 

Maybe Monday through Friday you have it all scheduled out, but when the weekend comes - you lie in bed pontificating on what you shall do?  And if you do lie there, you likely have a whole list of things to get done…but which one are you going to do first?  Which one is most important?  Do you have what you need at home to get you task done?

Do you get up in the morning and workout?  Do you have a plan in place for what punishment you are going to put yourself through?  Is your style to "wing it?"  Do you know what you’re going to eat?  What you are going to wear?

The Anomaly is the Anomaly

Well, maybe you are the anomaly an strategically plan out every day - days in advance - and wake up with a burning fire inside your belly knowing what you’re going to do, what you’re going to accomplish, and what goals you will meet.

But, if you are anything like the typical person, you don’t gently fall asleep at night with a mental blueprint of that is going to happen when you wake up - or at least knowing what you are going to do once breakfast and showering are taken care of. 

Me, Me, Me

As the saying goes, people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan - blah, blah, blah.  I know I have had my share of Saturday mornings where I mentally mulled over my list of “to dos,” all of which - in my muzzy morning state - seemed to rank atop my unending list.  And as shameless as it is to admit, it often seemed too overwhelming and thus 2 hours more sleep took precedent.

Time for Aesop to Talk

The moral of this parable then is - to wake with purpose and a fervent intent, with no quizzical wonder slowing your day - you must have a plan....planned.  Plan a minimum of you first activity - either that day’s priority or whatever can only be done at that time of day, like your workout or office meeting.  This not a difficult chore nor an imposition, but it does take mental fortitude to do it - like taking out the trash.  It’s quick and necessary to  keep your allegorical house in order. 

It may only 5 minutes, but will instrumentally improve your livelihood, because when you go to bed with a plan, you wake up with a purpose.    

Enthusiastically scribbled by, 

Jason Riemens