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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Tuesday Travel Tip: Choose Your Seat Wisely

Where do you sit on an airplane? We all have our preferences about the window or the aisle, and I assume you take that into consideration. But what about the row? Do you sit in the front so that you can be one of the first off? Or the exit row for the extra leg room?

Whenever I fly coach, I sit near the back. Why? Because of my carry on. I never check bags, and there is always room in the overhead bin at the back of the plane. Some airlines board from the back to the front, so already you have an advantage by getting on before other passengers. Even if you don't board first, if you are sitting in, say, row 9, you run the risk of having to store your bag at row 10 or even further back. Then, when you arrive at your destination, you have to wait for others behind you to gather their things and leave before you can walk back against the flow of traffic and retrieve your bag. If you sit in the back, your bag will always be right above you or on your way out. So easy, so smooth.

By the way, I avoid the very last row since the seats don't recline. One must take that into consideration as well.

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