What If Every Day Was the Same?
Yep, this picture is from the movie Groundhog Day, and it happens to be Groundhog Day. Coincidence? I think not, well maybe.
If you haven't seen the movie, Bill Murray plays a narcissistic, negative, miserable human being and works as a TV weatherman. Every year he is tasked with reporting on site in Punxsutawney, PA on Groundhog Day. The first day unfolds like every other day in his life, he's miserable, unhappy, and generally a pretty shitty person. He gets snowed in the town and heads back to his room for another night and when he wakes up the next day, it's Groundhog Day again. The same the next day, and so on. He finally figures out that this isn't a curse, but a blessing in disguise, and starts making himself a better person each day. What do you know, at the end of the movie, he wakes up and it isn't the second, it's the third, and he has completely changed his life.
So my question to you my friends is what would you do if every day was the same? This isn't a reality, but most of us have these cycles where everything seems to go in the same flow each week. How would you change that? Don't think you can change it? You can, you know.
Every day is chance to change things up. Having a family taught me this, and it took me a long time to learn to forgive myself for things I could not change. Nobody is perfect, nobody will ever be perfect, but everyone has the ability to change. The question you need to ask yourself is this, if every day was the same what's the first thing you'd start to change? If you can answer that, that means you know how you'd spend your first, second, and third Groundhog Day. It absolutely does not matter where you start, just frickin' get started.
Every day is not the same, but the one thing that doesn't change is your ability to get started changing your situation. Opportunity is on the other side of work, and the only way to get that opportunity is to get started. Happy Groundhog Day everyone.
(For the record, the first thing I'd change is not taking Spanish more seriously when I was in school. I would love to be able to speak Spanish fluently).