Work smarter, not harder.

Work smarter, not harder. - Scrooge McDuck (Carl Barks)

Leave it to an anthropomorphic duck to sum my night up so well.

I just spent 20 minutes rearranging my bedroom furniture. I stubbed my toe, pinched myself between the bed and the dresser, and I nicked the paint on my chair rail with the the corner of the bedside table. I did all this so I could plug my iPad in, and have the ridiculously short cord it came with reach to the bedside table. Success, it now reaches, and I can be lazy every night by not walking it back into the office to charge.

Why didn't I just grab an extension cord or a power strip out of the cord box in the garage? I could have walked out there, chosen from any length and color I desired, and been done in under 5 minutes; With about 15% of the effort.

Have you ever done that? Worked your butt off on a ridiculous, menial, yet extremely cumbersome task; And 5 minutes after you've finished, you've figured out an 80% easier way to do it? Yeah, that's pretty much my day to day life. It's always something. Whether it be balancing a grocery load, moving furniture, or trying to convince (trick) my husband to do something I know he'll dislike; As soon as I prevail, I realize I could have trimmed a good 15 minutes off my time spent on that task.

I have to say I'm an idiot, and about 68% of the time, I'm doing something the 'hard way'. The fabulous thing about that is, that as much as I'm doing it the 'hard way', I'm probably doing it better than most people could do it the 'easy way'. Just sayin'.