Anyone hanging out in the mountains of western North Carolina this weekend might have noticed that at night it was COLD... seriously flippin' COLD. Breath in front of you turning to ice crystals cold...
And, as I mentioned in Part I, Plan Bs are required... and I had a Plan B for when the new sleeping bag failed to make its appearance until I returned from the trip. Let me tell you what Plan B was...
I had three sleeping bags... yes, three sleeping bags. I put one down on my air mattress, slipped into the mummy bag and then had the other one draped over the top... and if I didn't mention, I also had two fleece throws that I could use around my head and arms to keep anything protruding from the bag warm in the freezing tent. And at night we opened the coolers to refreeze them so that we would need less ice... I meant it when I said it was cold. I was warm... tasty comfortably warm.
And therein lies the problem...
I call the problem Morning. As in, time to get out of the bag. You see, the bag was warm and comfortable... especially warm. Outside of the bag was cold... very cold. Laying there in the morning there were two realizations:
- All of the things that needed to be accomplished were outside of the tent and outside of the warm, comfortable sleeping bag.
- Getting out of the sleeping bag was NOT going to be the highlight of my day.
This is a lot like the rest of our lives. We know that the goal lies on the other side of discomfort. Getting out of the warm confines of the bag and standing there in the tent with bad hair and a pair of boxer shorts while freezing is NOT fun... but it will be ok in a couple of minutes when the clothes get warm. And that is what needs to happen.
So, you gotta do what you gotta do!
And that means that I prepared myself (actually, I arranged everything that I needed... pulled some of it into the bag to warm up), crawled out of bed (with lightning speed), and changed clothes (I dressed like Superman in a nylon phone booth). I couldn't lay there until it warmed up... I had my reasons.
And real estate marketing?
Sometimes we get comfortable. It is SO warm inside. And it is SO cold outside... We know that we can shoot video/make a better property website/write better copy/whatever. But we know that it isn't going to be as fun as not doing it... at least for a little while.
Get out of the bag!
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