Kim Gaskill talks about being stuck in a medical facility with frustrating delays and lost equipment, then deciding to move to a hotel for more control over her routine. She argues that taking charge of your day, even in small ways, cuts stress and gets things done.
It's a new day. I'm Kim Gaskill and this is the Daily Spark. Do you take control of your day or do you let the day control you? I get to blow this joint today. I get to get out of here and get to a different location. Not, not home yet, but I'm gonna be in a hotel for a couple months here doing some medical stuff, but it'll at least be a place that I can call home, that I can have more control over my day instead of like here in this facility. I have absolutely no control over my day. My day primarily consists of waiting for other people to decide to come and do what they need to do, and I don't have much say in it. Like today. My plan was to get up, get my things together, take a shower, have everything that I needed to do ready so I could get discharged later. And of course, that's been totally thrown out of whack because the people that are supposed to deliver my wheelchair and walker have the wrong information. They were trying to set it up to deliver it to New Jersey and I'm in Arizona. So now it has to go through a different department. I have to wait for a call, which means I can't start the process of taking a shower this morning because I depend on some of the nurses to help me with that. And it is a process. It's about an hour-long process, but I had coordinated all that ahead of time trying to take control of my day and someone else has taken all of that away from me because I have to wait now for that call. Because if I am in the shower and I miss the call, then I will have to call them back. They won't answer the phone. I'll have to leave a message, and then I'll have to wait again for a return call to get the process started. So it's this hamster wheel of a existence here, just constantly spinning. And I am so excited to get out of here and looking forward to taking back control of my day. Because I'll tell you, when I started controlling my day instead of letting the day control me, it made a huge difference. I was happier, I was less stressed, I was more productive. And if you're letting the day run you, if you're not taking control where you can, try it. Make those changes. I guarantee you will see a difference, and hopefully it'll be a difference that you like. Catch you again tomorrow for another Daily Spark.
