The deciding moment

Chapter 249

The deciding moment.

The deciding moment, when you first get out of bed, and you are sitting on the toilet trying to get your bleary eyes to stay open and your mind begin to function at the most basic level, is your deciding moment. Its when you decide how you are going to approach this day, its when you decide what your attitude is going to be for this day. This is a powerful moment, and it is the most difficult one of the day to grasp because of the state you are in, barely awake and probably resenting it, and wishing for nothing more than to go back to bed. 

But you can’t. You have to move forward, you have to go prepare breakfast, you have to get everyone up and out of the door, the coffee made, the dishes washed, the beds made, and a shower . . . returning to bed is not an option. But you are facing other options and that is why the deciding moment is so critical to the entire day. Because this is when you will decide, unwillingly or willing, what the tone and temper of the day will be like. It could be a powerful deciding moment if you are strong enough or disciplined enough to actively participate in the deciding moment.

The reason I am writing about this is because I can see how important the deciding moment is each day and because I struggle so much to actively participate in that decision each day. I get maybe 15 minutes between opening my eyes and that decision coming into play as I begin to interact with other people in my life and home. Those are my most passive 15 minutes of the entire day in terms of what I am feeling, but they are also perhaps the most important 15 minutes of the day, because of the impact they have on the remaining 23 hours and 45 minutes.