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Sep 24 2025

Making Your Bed

“If you want to change the world, then start by making your bed.” (Admiral William H. McRaven)

I woke up this morning running late and the last thing I wanted to do was take 30-seconds to make my bed.

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Maybe you’ve been right there with me struggling between listening to that pesky little bed-making devil on one shoulder and that cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness angel on the other shoulder.

After all, that bed is just going to get messed up again that night, anyway, who will ever see it?

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Personal Growth · Tagged: Chip Kelly, doing the right thing, Gandhi, Leadership, Make your bed, making your bed, Mike Lindell, MLK, My Pillow, Navy SEALs, Steve Nudelberg, Success, Success is a Choice, Wife, Win the Day

Nov 16 2018

That Time My Wife Got Her Way … and I Was Glad

“Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, understanding, economical and a good cook.  But the law allows only one wife.”
 

I hit the jackpot.  My wife is all of those.  However, I am also like most husbands in that I think I am always right.

She puts up with my delusions and still loves me.

She knows how to pick her battles and doesn’t protest every silly thing I say or decision I make.  If she did, she’d constantly have a picket sign in her hand marching around the sidewalk in front of our house.

However, a few years ago, she memorably put her foot down and didn’t let me get away with making a silly decision.  It was the best thing she could have done because the results of that decision have been life-altering.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Personal Growth · Tagged: Adoption, Arguments, Bethany Christian Services, Emily Chapman Richards, family, Husbands, Jaylen Bechler, marriage, Mike Hamilton, Persuasion, Selfish, Show Hope, Superman was Adopted, Tabitha Bechler, Wife

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