For instance, there’s a chapter on hostage negotiation that tersely ends with, “Life is a struggle … without pushing your limits… you will never know what is truly possible in your life.” The rest of Make Your Bed is the staple of graduation speeches-personal anecdotes that abruptly end with lessons on initiative, risk-taking, perseverance, hardship, courage. Making your bed and tidying up sets up the intention and the tone for the rest of the day. If, instead, you succumb to indifference, you’ll likely carry around the same state of mind for the rest of the day. And if you’ve had a bad day, you can come at least home to a made bed and put your feet up. Making your bed is thus a reflection of your discipline, your pride, and your habits.
Once you start your day with a completed task, you feel accomplished, and you feel motivated to keep performing things. And by the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task, and another, and another. You need an anchor point for your day, and sometimes that anchor is as a simple as making your bed … If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. Simple habits, self-discipline, and a large dose of effort can be a framework for personal success and lay the foundations for changing others’ lives. His book’s central message is exactly what the title proposes-it’s easy to find excuses in our lives. He was the head of the special ops team that killed Osama bin Laden. Admiral William McRaven’s best-selling Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life … And Maybe the World (2017) is one of those enormously successful inspirational books derived from the author’s one famous speech, in this case his 2014 commencement address at the University of Texas-Austin.
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