Do it before breakfast.

Never mind what we were talking about....it’s probably worthwhile advice no matter what you’re thinking about.

Since I'm not a breakfast eater, a whole new world of possibilities opened up before me. All day, to just...well, that's right...just do it. Except, I don't think my friend knew about my bad habit of skipping the most important meal of the day. Rather, my friend was encouraging me to just get it done. To do it before the distractions of the day take over. Do it before other things fill my plate, so to speak.

For a stay-at-home-mom, getting it done before breakfast can be hard. Sometimes it can be hard to prioritize. If Scarlett O’Hara, of "Gone with the Wind", fame had been a housewife, she'd my role model. I hear her in my head exclaiming, "Fiddle dee dee. I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."

And we all know, tomorrow is a great day. It's always full of promise and possibility. Today? Well, I’ll think about my to-do list later. First, I've got to check my email....

When my friend game me this advice I don't think he was really telling me I had to do everything before breakfast. I think he was secretly trying to give me a lesson about time. My friend is like that, he speaks in metaphors and symbols, sometimes it's hard to understand what he's really saying. But, I digress.

I think his message of "do it before breakfast" was to remind me to keep track of the time. Be mindful of it. It's cliche to talk about the gift of time. Jim Croce wanted to save time in a bottle, Ben Franklin wanted to stitch in time to save nine. My girl friends and I are always waxing poetic about our kids: Where does the time goes? How did they get so big? Remember when....

We only get so much time, never sure when ours will run out. And, with age and wisdom we learn we have to be careful about how we use it. It’s easy to waste. It's easy to revert to the Scarlett O'Hara in all of us and think about what we will accomplish tomorrow.

So, I'm taking my friends advice. Today, I did it before breakfast. It wasn’t easy. There were a lot of distractions. But I did it and it felt good.

Now, I'm hungry because it’s almost time for lunch.