“I’ve fallen off the wagon!”

This was the subject line in an email from one of my clients. I’ve heard this analogy (likely, we all have – or we’ve used it ourselves!) so many times that I found it fitting for its own blog post.

If you fall off the proverbial wagon, why is the assumption that you sit on your butt in the dirt, watching the wagon quickly faded off into a pile of dust?

Instead of viewing it in this way, let’s give it a whole new twist. Visualize jumping up off your dirty butt and running after that wagon, grabbing the side and catapulting your body back aboard!

Or, if “running” and “catapulting” isn’t an option, how about jumping up and beat-feeting it to the rest stop ahead where you can catch up to the wagon, eh?

Let’s just get one thing straight.