Own the Wave

Wave  n  7:  a disturbance that transfers energy progressively from point to point in a medium.
–Merriam Webster

A disturbance that transfers energy. I rarely wake myself up anymore.  I rarely get out of bed on my own terms.  Most often it’s a squirmy body that’s crawled in next to me, a hungry bagel request, an emergency need for company while peeing, or assistance wiping an exceptionally messy #2.  And it’s during these times that I have to say to myself “She’s your wife, give her what she needs.”;-O

The boys are my one and only alarm, and my days begin with requests and energy.  Easing into the morning is not a recurring concept in our home.  You get up ready for energy, or you get swallowed.  Which brings us back to the concept of waves.

A disturbance that transfers energy progressively from point to point in a medium.

The way the morning begins quite often makes or breaks it.  Bitching about it is a waste of time (officially), and in truth there is something pretty cool about the fact that the boys come right to me to start their day and for their needs.  They can’t do it all themselves and they look to me as the person who will deliver – and in the end if what they say of me is “he delivered”  I’ll be satisfied.  So it’s not all together a task I don’t relish.  I’m just not ready for it every single morning and what I’ve learned is if I am not prepared to meet this energy with my own, to in essence co opt it, I am done.  It’s the difference between an efficient, powerful swim stroke, and treading water as waves become increasingly larger.  I can hit the day with a powerful stroke or I can tread water, period.
The key?  I’m boiling it down to enthusiasm.  The times when I set the pace and enthusiastically tackle the day from the get go are the times I feel most productive, most positive, the most accommodating, being the best leader I can be – and that’s who I’d like to be at the outset of each day.

Is that realistic?

The waves come either way, so who will I be when they do?

Up next, Jamala and 45mph gusts…