1-Go to bed the prior night with a blinding migraine, but be grateful you don’t have to get up a 5am to beat the humidity for your morning run because you can use the hotel treadmill and close your pained eyes knowing you don’t have to open them again until 6am
2-Wake up at 5am because you forgot to tell your phone alarm about the change in plans, but be thankful the migraine is gone and go back to sleep—appreciate how quickly you were able to fall back to sleep
3-Manage to wake up at 6am despite forgetting to reset the alarm and be happy you actually woke up and still have time get a run in
4-Discover the only treadmill in the so-called fitness center is occupied and you have no time to wait for the user to finish and still get in a run, be pleasantly surprised and thankful Troy is not nearly as humid as Decatur and run outside in the area near the hotel.
5-Pass the same sketchy characters twice, while on run and be very grateful they only appeared sketchy
6-Finish shower only to realize you forgot to shave your legs, be happy you still have time to get back in the shower to remedy the situation
7-While shaving legs discover you have a few icky bruises on your legs, be relieved (just for today, at any rate) people really don’t check out your legs anymore
8-Stop and get gas on the way to your presentation. After running into the quickmart for Dr. Pepper and a poptart, hop in car and drive away with the pump hose still in gas tank. Stop car, get out and return pump hose to pump. Thank Heaven that the pump hose just popped out, there was zero damage to the pump, hose or the car and the worst thing that happened was you got charged $100 for the full tank and some spilled gas.
9-Get to client site in plenty of time to set up, and be thankful you did not have the serious technical difficulties that delayed your presentation the previous day
10-Get halfway through presentation and have technical difficulties, be glad that the audience was small and patient and the technical difficulties were easily managed by yourself and your mad skills in only a minute or two
11-Finish first presentation and discover you’ve started your monthly cycle (a surprise for which you are not adequately prepared) and be very grateful that you were the first and only person to discover this “special” event
12-Deliver second presentation to an excited and engaged crowd then receive aggressive tangential question from the only person sitting with arms crossed and frowning, be grateful for years of experience that enable you to handle situation gracefully and the opportunity to use the phrase “loose lips” in an appropriate context and give the entire audience, even Mr. Arm Crosser, a good chuckle.
13-Receive a text from a friend about an interesting new career opportunity for your spouse, and be extremely appreciative of a friendship forged in childhood that has survived for so many years and over great distances
14-Start the four hour drive home and pass through no less than 20 different construction zones—be thankful you didn’t hit rush hour and there were no other delays
15-Arrive home to your family squealing and dancin with delight that you are home and recognize how tremendously blessed you really are.
16-Thank God for an awesome day.
2-Wake up at 5am because you forgot to tell your phone alarm about the change in plans, but be thankful the migraine is gone and go back to sleep—appreciate how quickly you were able to fall back to sleep
3-Manage to wake up at 6am despite forgetting to reset the alarm and be happy you actually woke up and still have time get a run in
4-Discover the only treadmill in the so-called fitness center is occupied and you have no time to wait for the user to finish and still get in a run, be pleasantly surprised and thankful Troy is not nearly as humid as Decatur and run outside in the area near the hotel.
5-Pass the same sketchy characters twice, while on run and be very grateful they only appeared sketchy
6-Finish shower only to realize you forgot to shave your legs, be happy you still have time to get back in the shower to remedy the situation
7-While shaving legs discover you have a few icky bruises on your legs, be relieved (just for today, at any rate) people really don’t check out your legs anymore
8-Stop and get gas on the way to your presentation. After running into the quickmart for Dr. Pepper and a poptart, hop in car and drive away with the pump hose still in gas tank. Stop car, get out and return pump hose to pump. Thank Heaven that the pump hose just popped out, there was zero damage to the pump, hose or the car and the worst thing that happened was you got charged $100 for the full tank and some spilled gas.
9-Get to client site in plenty of time to set up, and be thankful you did not have the serious technical difficulties that delayed your presentation the previous day
10-Get halfway through presentation and have technical difficulties, be glad that the audience was small and patient and the technical difficulties were easily managed by yourself and your mad skills in only a minute or two
11-Finish first presentation and discover you’ve started your monthly cycle (a surprise for which you are not adequately prepared) and be very grateful that you were the first and only person to discover this “special” event
12-Deliver second presentation to an excited and engaged crowd then receive aggressive tangential question from the only person sitting with arms crossed and frowning, be grateful for years of experience that enable you to handle situation gracefully and the opportunity to use the phrase “loose lips” in an appropriate context and give the entire audience, even Mr. Arm Crosser, a good chuckle.
13-Receive a text from a friend about an interesting new career opportunity for your spouse, and be extremely appreciative of a friendship forged in childhood that has survived for so many years and over great distances
14-Start the four hour drive home and pass through no less than 20 different construction zones—be thankful you didn’t hit rush hour and there were no other delays
15-Arrive home to your family squealing and dancin with delight that you are home and recognize how tremendously blessed you really are.
16-Thank God for an awesome day.
