I Got Out of Bed For THIS?
I have one t-shirt I really love to wear. It fit me well, the fabric is nice and it have a message that help me check the mindset of people I meet.
Its a nice regular gray cotton t-shirt. On the chest white letters are making out the sentence:
I got out of bed for this?
Besides that its really nice to wear I really like how people look in their face when the read the text. The reactions are very different and I believe they tell lot about the mind set of the persons I meet.
The grumpy ones.
Some people get really offended when reading my t-shirt text. Like they choose to believe that I would rather be home in bed that be there with them now. Some even say things like. “Someone is in a bad mood today” and “Why are you here if you don’t want to.”
The thing is that I’m very seldom in a bad mood and I almost never go places I don’t want to be. And if either should happen I certainly would not wear that t-shirt.
The puzzled ones.
That’s often people who know me but still not get it. They would know me well enough to know that I would never plaster a negative message on my chest and still they can´t yet figure out what my idea of this t-shit was.
The ones who get life.
“Yeah!! Of course you did”, was the reaction of the teacher I had on a coaching seminar first time I was wearing the t-shirt. I bought it some days before with the purpose of showing people how much I enjoy what I do.
If you meet me and I’m wearing that t-shirt you know that what I’m doing is something that I like to do so much that I got out of bed for it.
When I wake up in the morning first thing in my mind is all the great things in my life that I want to get out of bed to experience.
Wearing that t-shirt give me a chance to tell the grumpy ones. “Yes - I AM here. That mean that I DID get out of bed to come here. Where we are now and what we do now is what motivated me to jump out of bed this morning.”
It gives me a chance to ask people what motivates them to get out of bed in the morning and that is often interesting. Not every one are aware that they are actually motivated to get out of bed and for some it is only negative motivation like not loosing the job.
Do you have positive motivation to get out of your bed every morning?