Garbage Trucks, Peanut Butter, And Hot Sticky Christmas Cards

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. 

Napolean Hill

Have you noticed people drag their garbage truck out last minute?

This occurred to me, at 10:37 a.m. while patting some PB on some green grapes. (It keeps my insulin lower than white bread and sugar-laced jam, and still tastes like peanut butter and jelly sandwich.)

I gaze out the window, and sure enough, my can isn’t out and the truck is coming around the mountain…

…and I have PB all over my hands!

I whirl out and bum rush the garbage can, just in time!

As I get back into my house, I know I have to keep up on my little things.

I have to set notices on my phone. I have to use a checklist. I have to be responsible for small things.

If I don’t make it a rule, I’ll miss the “luck” train, and miss all the pleasant things about life because of being worried and guilty of little things like a rush to take out the garbage can, and peanut butter all over my hand.

Wait a minute…

…There is peanut butter all over the stack of mail on my counter!

Delicious peanut butter has a ton of oil in it, and it’s runny like syrup.

Great.

Oh, what’s that?

How about getting peanut butter all over those special Christmas cards from years ago.

Damn.

Is this what happens when we ignore little things?

Problems arise out of thin air, and make us feel the burn all year long!

My most significant transformation from spazzy runt to lifestyle anti-hero is taking care of the little things as a programmed habit.

Don’t just do it one day.

Do it every day.

It will keep your time and money train coming around the mountain real fast!

Don’t wait.