I’m reading Make Your Bed: The Little Things That Can Change Your Life…. and Maybe the World.<\/p>\n
Things a SEAL might have to say might be things I can go along with, or things that might make me chew my lip a bit. And so this does. However, I do not necessarily have to unilaterally agree with everything an author puts down to find it valuable. (Being a Heinlein fan, the world oughta be grateful for that, just sayin’)<\/p>\n
ADM McRaven says something quite early on in the book that rather struck me between the eyeballs.<\/p>\n
Now, I am a bed-maker and have been since toddlerhood. Mom taught me to do so and it’s What One Does. You know things you kinda do without question? I do that. So, it was easy for me to agree with the idea that you start the day with making your bed. His commentary \u2013 that you start the day with a completed task and see the evidence of that completed task when you complete your day, really hit home to me.<\/p>\n
I will sometimes complain of Not Having Accomplished Enough at the end of a day to have my husband send me to my Bullet Journal in irritation, telling me to review and see if my day was really<\/em> as lazy as all that. <\/em>(In general, it was not).<\/p>\n The idea that an extremely successful man in a very tough career looked to something to remind himself that he did at least one thing well that day was an interesting one and made me realize all these years I was doing only part of the task of making my bed.<\/p>\n Acknowledging I do it is actually important, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m reading Make Your Bed: The Little Things That Can Change Your Life…. and Maybe the World. Things a SEAL might have to say might be things I can go along with, or things that might make me chew my lip a bit. And so this does. However, I do not necessarily have to unilaterally … <\/p>\n