RSS at Feed BurnerHow getting out of bed can predict your chances for success
Like a normal college kid, I usually struggled to get up in the mornings to get to class while at Mizzou.
Since my degree was in elementary education, I was able to student teach in the second grade my last semester. People with other degrees did not understand the concept of student teaching. We had to work 55+ hours and dealt with 26 eight year olds with absolutely no pay. In fact, most of the time we bought our own supplies. This was happening while other students were getting 35-38 hour internships for the summer making good money.
Well, I absolutely loved it!
Keep in mind that I was still in college, meaning my partying was not restricted to the weekends. However, I noticed a funny thing on school-day mornings after a night of partying. Instead of going through the “morning struggle” of getting out of bed, I would wake up, usually before my alarm clock and (sometimes, literally) jump out of bed. The reason was because I loved teaching and I was excited to get to the school to get the day going.
For me, and likely most people, the desire to get out of bed is an indicator of how much I enjoy what I am doing. And, as most people will tell you, having a passion for what you do is one thing that will undoubtedly increase your chances for success.
“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.”
- Michael Korda
How fast do you get out of bed?
on March 25th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Even as I travel around the country and stay up late working, I always hop right out of bed excited in the morning because I am part of something that I am truly passionate about. Good post. I glad there are other people like me that almost always wake up before their alarm clocks.
on April 3rd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Funny, I am up before dawn reading this because I couldn’t sleep. Went to bed around midnight, woke up with visions of sugar plums dancing in my head at 3am :-)
Another metric for success might be whether you consider what you do to be work or not. In other words, if you were to win the lotto tomorrow, would you still be doing what you are doing today.