Tap Shoes, Mary Kay, and Getting Things Done

In my current role as Marion Cunningham in Happy Days: The Musical, the theater provides the shoes that I wear with my costume with one exception: tap shoes. I wear my own tap shoes in the show. (You'll have to come see it to discover why Marion Cunningham is tap dancing). Backstage at each performance, I have to put on a costume piece, pick up a prop, and get the shoes on and off semi-quietly, semi-quickly in semi-darkness. One shoe has a buckle that is very easy to manipulate. The other is a struggle every single time. Sometimes I hear the cue coming up and I don't have it buckled. It creates stress. However, I have found that if I work on the difficult buckle first, I am less stressed and get it to work in plenty of time to do everything else.

I read that Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay cosmetics, made a list of what she needed to do each day, and then started with the hardest thing on the list. Same concept. What do you need to do today? Start with the hardest thing and get it done. If you leave the hard part for last, you add layers of stress that make it even harder.

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