How did Your day Start? (9/3/14)

I don’t do so well at 5am. If I’m still awake at 5am it usually means that I’m up to no good, and I’m bound to get into trouble for something. If my alarm clock goes off at 5am it means that I scheduled myself to be somewhere way to early in the morning. On this occasion it was the latter. I was scheduled to be a speaker at the Kiwanis Club of North Manatee at 7am. Now you factor in an hour drive, my obsession for being on location at least thirty minutes early, and you are left with an alarm clock that explodes to life at 5am.

There is no major problem with me being up that early, but I just don’t officially start functioning properly until about 10 or 11am. There is a problem with that when you are behind the wheel in what might as well be a foreign country. At 6am when I made it to my interstate exit I was functioning, but I wasn’t yet coherent. However, I became coherent real quick after I self induced a minor panic attack. With it being pitch black and not even having the benefit of the moon and star light to pierce through the night sky; I was relying on my not so trusty GPS unit to guide me with its little pink line.

I followed that little pink line around the left hand curve that went under an overpass and merged into traffic, but my problems began when my brain started shouting “CANNOT COMPUTE”. Everything about this dark road felt wrong, like I was going the wrong way down a one way street. So I slowed down and was about to pull a u-ie when I saw two pairs of lights flying down the road in my direction, and I righted the ship posthaste.

I nearly turned myself into a bumper sticker on the front of an 18 wheeler at 6am, literally. However, I arrived at my final destination in one piece, and made it through the rest of the morning without any serious issues. I was even able to maximize the value of my trip by setting up brunch with my buddy Steve who organized a future meeting with a potential corporate sponsor for the following Monday. I may have been very productive for the day, but I nearly turned myself into roadkill in order to make it happen. So how do you start your day?