Inspired by 12 things successful people do before breakfast
- Hit their snooze button one time too many, then wake with a start and realize they’re already 20 minutes behind schedule
- Sit down to meditate but give up after 10 minutes when ‘clear the mind’ becomes an obsessive thought about not thinking
- Try to wake their spouse with a gentle shake, and instead get the cold shoulder when s/he turns over and mumbles ‘go away’
- Hit the streets for a 5k run, then pull up limping after a calf muscle seizes up – remembering at that point that the last time they went running they pulled the same muscle , then vowed to launch an intensive stretching regime so it wouldn’t happen again
- Reach into their pocket for the to-do list they diligently prepared at the breakfast table – only to pull out the grocery list
- Log in to their favourite website to catch up on national and global affairs – then are unable to resist clicking on a video of the sports ‘play of the day’, and another, and another…
- Elicit an ‘I hate you!’ scream from their child by insisting that, yes, when it’s below zero she must wear a coat
- Vow to give up learning Mandarin when the employee at the local corner store laughs into her hand when they attempt to say ‘good morning, how are you today?’
- Get a flat tire on their bike and discover that they forgot to replace the patch kit and tools in their backpack the last time they used it as carry-on luggage
- Realize too late that they forget to turn the ringer on their phone back on, and miss the call from their boss telling them to stay at home – it’s a ‘snow day’.
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