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
