The Small Victory We All Need
Discover a simple but often disregarded trick from a US-Army Admiral that will energize you and shift your momentum
During the 2014 commencement speech of the University of Texas, Admiral McRaven shared his life lessons learned from his time serving as a Navy Seal¹.
Often, I get repelled by the military and all the negative associations that gravitate around it. Rigidity is one of them. I can’t help but picture the army with a yelling sergeant, like the one from the Forrest Gump movie.
But the talk of Admiral McRaven shed another light on this intense sense of discipline. He stated that to change the world, we must start by making our bed every morning².
To me, it’s the last part of this sentence that is important: “every morning”.
Without exception.
We must do our bed every morning, with discipline. The point is that no matter what will happen during the day, we completed one task.
We achieved something.
Yes, that’s only making our bed, there is no difficulty doing this task. But, when we do our bed, several things happen as a result.
First benefit: we proved to ourselves that we could do something.
