If you recognize this slogan, then the ad folks did their
job. Actually, you might recognize it more as: In the Army, we do more before 9am
than most people do all day, or Be All That You Can Be. It’s kind of
motivational if you ask me. I want to get up and kick some butt before 9am,
most days. (Here’s a YouTube video of it if you’re interested.)
As a way of implementing some New Year’s self-home-work-flow
improvement, I decided to get up earlier than usual on the weekdays. It was not
a big stretch considering our kids don’t let us sleep much past dawn anyway. Perfectly
doable, or so I thought.
See, just about anything can look good in theory or on
paper. When it comes time to actually do it, is when you’ve got push through.
It wouldn’t be so bad except we shoveled snow five times in the past three
days, last night I somehow got sucked into a montage of funnies on Late Night
with Jimmy Fallon (here’s a preview)
and set aside my book edits and stayed up past my bedtime—the one designed to
help me have the energy to get up earlier and Be All That I Could Be.
Since then we got even more snow and school is closed. While
my amazing husband did not wake me for the morning shovel, I did get up at my
“early” time. We enjoyed breakfast before he headed off to see if he could get
through the snow to work in under an hour.
After a brief feeling of
accomplishment at getting up early, I have cleaned up milk messes, dyed six
fingers and my new favorite sweatshirt several shades of purple, placed three
of the world’s tiniest balloons filled with water and food coloring (how I dyed
my hands) on wax paper and set them on our front porch in hopes they freeze
before a delivery guy squashes them. Water balloons and dye may seem like a bad idea in winter, but it looked cool on Pinterest. The water inside the balloons is supposed
to freeze and make some kind of pretty colored ice balls, although as small as ours are
they will be ice marbles.
I had good intentions, but sometimes things just go their
own way. I’m perfectly content to keep writing/editing with purple fingers,
complete more fun experiments with the kids, and Be All I Can Be. We’ll
just have to see what else the day holds.
What are you doing to 'Be All You Can Be' today?
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