Lauren Card Live

Don’t over eat, get 8 hours of sleep, exercise regularly, eat an apple a day, brush your teeth…blah, blah, blah.

Wanna have some fun? It’s time for some “unguilty” pleasures. How will you know the merit of coloring inside the lines if every now and then you don’t scribble where you shouldn’t? It’s exhilarating, vicarious, fulfilling and down right FUN (to break the rules)! So why do we work so hard to be good all the time? Who made up those rules anyway?

Tomorrow I’m playing hooky. I have a huge project I’m working on and I’m heading to the beach for the day instead. It’s unreasonable, irresponsible and totally about me. I’ll catch all kinds of heat for this, but that’s okay, THAT’S THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!

I wonder if those I’m working for are reading these words right now? If you’re life is all about behaving, perhaps it’s time to break your own rules. If you get right down to it, we are the ones who hold ourselves accountable…yes? We deserve at the very minimum to know why. Is two bowls of ice cream really excessive? Is taking the afternoon off to go to the movies life changing?

We owe it to ourselves to examine all the rules from time to time to see if they still apply. Are they really working for us or are they keeping us stuck in a boring rut? This is not a dress rehearsal, this is our command performance.

I think I’ll have another cookie please!

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