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My Typical Day...

I wanted to take a minute and discuss what a typical day for me looks like. This is to emphasis two things. The first is that it takes Willpower to do things you don’t want to do. The second is that the body and spirit has limits. Note, while the daily details change, the amount of effort remains the same for every day I choose to be free.


0400 - Wake up after only getting about three hours of sleep. This happened because I am currently in my transitions class and all the new information is creating a whirlwind of thoughts. I finally lay down, my brain continues to compute my new future.
0400...0600 - I am currently enrolled in the veteran Boots2Business class, and I had to catch up on the homework and watch a 30 minute video. When I was done; I started laundry, shower, get dressed, and wake up the kids for school.
0600...0700 - I struggled to get the kids up, fed, and lunches made. I didn’t have time to actually see them off to school. I had to trust them to leave 15 minutes after I left for work. Normally my wife would handle all this, but her night job has been taking up more time than usually and she didn’t get in until about the time I woke up.
0700...0800 - Fight traffic and get to class. I forget how bad traffic is. I deliberately set my normal schedule to avoid as many mobs as possible.


0800...1600 - The transition class is awesome. It is has armed me with the knowledge and confidence to retire from the military in early 2018. You would think that having over a year out would be enough time. But I’m learning that if I had waited any longer, I would of been screwed. Anyways, it is this class that is keeping me up at night.
1600...1800 - I go into work. Even though I’m in this class, my emails lead me to believe that my leadership doesn’t believe me. I discover I need to judge 6 award packages. This is on top of my original reason of printing all my evaluations so that I can write my resume the next day. Well, only enough time right now to print. I need to leave and go to a play my oldest is a stage hand in. Down the road I go.
1800...1900 - I try my hardest to be a good father and be there for my kiddos when I can. Even if it is incredible inconvenient for me. Part sacrifice, part willpower gets me through the night. Overall it was fun and I’m glad I went. This led to meeting the wife for dinner at the mall food court. What turned into a planned 30 minutes turned quickly into an hour.
1900...2030 - Dinner, shopping, talking for the first time with the wife about her night before.


2030...2200 - Back to work, remember I had to still grade those award packages. Mind you, this is something I generally like to do. Just today, at this particular hour, my energy is starting to waver. I get a cup of coffee and think some happy thoughts. On the way home I think about what I still need to do: Boots2Business, This Blog, and put a draft resume together from my evaluations for the next day’s class.


2200...0000 - Ok. By now I have depleted my Willpower (finite resource) and my body is saturated with caffeine (more will no longer help). Since I need the draft resume for the class, I must all my energy to get all my accomplishments under functional categories. By the end, it isn’t pretty, but it is enough to work with.
0000...0600 - I crawl into bed, overtired and fall asleep.

My intention is not to put this out there to seek awe or sympathy. It is my desire to show a living example that it takes Willpower, Choices, Logical Thinking, and a Self Awareness to attempt to be Human. You must have goals, seek to better yourself, and dig deep into your reserve to earn the right to separate yourself from the animal kingdom. To earn the right to be free from a cage you cannot see. To earn the right to be free.


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