I mentioned the Kellogg’s Rooster yesterday.  And today, I saw a GREAT commercial produced by Kellogg’s Cereal.

If you haven’t seen it, there are a bunch of women of different shapes and sizes, going for new jeans, and hence, body measurements.  A few of them are not wanting to get measured because they are shapely-ish.  But when the tape measure goes around their waists, the person reads what it says.  Instead of a number in inches….. it says things like “strong” or “confident” or “beautiful”….

I LOVED this.  It tells women they are cool-io…. no matter what their outside appearance may be.

And I am borrowing it.  But the way I am borrowing it…..  isn’t about losing weight…. or eating healthy cereal …. or fitting into jeans…

I am thinking more about when we were kids, and we’d stand in the doorway.   Mom would tell us to stand up straight, and then she would pencil-mark our heights.  We were seen in full view…. and measured…. right there in that door jam.  Polly 3’8″…  or whatever it was.

So now we are as tall as we are going to get… on the outside.  In fact… some of us are headed in the shrinking violet direction.

But I challenge you… and I challenge me… to THIS.

(Not like the Icebucket Challenge… I didn’t like that whole deal… but that is a topic for another night.)

Okay… back to it.  I challenge US to this.

Each and every day…. at the end of the day.. we should stand in that doorway… straight and tall… and make our mark on the wall.  And when you turn around… look closely to see what it reads.

It is just for that day.  AND… that proportion translates into something much different than feet and inches.

See what it says in.…. character.  Does it say…..
kind, compassionate, willing, happy, supportive, honest, confident, productive, caring, loving, funny, clever, flexible, helpful, acquiescent, friendly?
Or does it measure….
mean, angry, impatient, sarcastic, violent, rude, dishonest, unfair, deceitful, malicious….

You get the idea.

Yes.  Perhaps we should get our little pencils and yard sticks out… and take note at the end of each day… just how we measured up where ever we went.

Maybe we should think about how we did.
And tomorrow… stand just as tall…. or taller than we did the day before.

We’ll all be growing again… before we know it.

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”  — Henry Ford