Waking Up
I was watching this program on TV last night about a drug that helps people to wake up. Apparently it’s a $billion dollar industry with more and more people taking it every day. So this program had scientists test it out to see how it compared with caffeine! Result, it has no more waking up power than a cup of coffee. So it had me thinking.
What the heck is wrong with us?! That we can’t wake up. I remember reading once about Elvis, that he ended up taking drugs to wake him up, and drugs to make him fall asleep and look what happened to him. I mean I love Elvis and his music–but I don’t think the waking up and falling asleep drugs helped him much.
So if you are tempted to get a drug to help you wake up, stop for a moment. Here is a simple way to do it. It takes a small amount of preparation, but then what doesn’t if you want to live an amazing life? Step One: Go to bed, close your eyes and go to sleep. Step Two: Wake up in the morning and open your eyes. Step Three: Leap out of bed, excited and ready to start the day. Step Four: If you can’t get in touch with the wonderfulness of being alive–grab yourself a cup of coffee.
If none of that works, go grab a copy of Super Service. I remember when I wrote that book I kept having this recurring theme which runs throughout the book, “Wake Up!” The first time it is mentioned is at the bottom of page 4: “…the secret weapon is to wake up.. in the Super Service definition, ‘waking up’ means being conscious of the fact that we are all in the soup of life together. It means opening our eyes wide in the morning and saying, ‘Yippee, I’m still on the planet!’”
Let’s wake up and have a great time in our life. Because remember, it doesn’t get any easier or better later on–we just get older for goodness sake. I am also saying this to me, so although I sound a little bit like a school teacher or a parent–I think that is what you and I need to hear. It’s Saturday today, and if you are at work or at home, let’s make it the best Saturday we have ever had! Rock N Roll Val
Add comment February 17th, 2007