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Jun 14 2022

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, MLK, Navy SEALs, Steve Nudelberg, 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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