The difference between having your cake and eating it too...

A movie I liked to watch a lot when I was a kid was the Mighty Ducks. For all of those that are unfamiliar with this cinematic genius, the Mighty Ducks is a flick about an underdog hockey team that is led by a guy who’s forced to coach as court-ordered community service.

But for as many times as I watched it, there was this one phrase that was used a lot throughout the movie that I never really understood.

This puzzling phrase was most often said to Banks, the mega talented player from the rival team that ended up having join the Ducks because of division/resident lines. Bitterly, the Ducks players used to refer to him as Cake-Eater.

I never knew that meant, until tonight.

The San Diego Chargers are m favorite NFL team and tonight was their season opener against the Oakland Raiders (their rivals) for the 2nd game of Monday Night Football, so naturally I was excited to watch. The problem was the timing of the game was set against the time I had set to work on some things I needed to get done.

Easy fix.

“I’ll bring my laptop and finish my work while watching the game” I convincingly told myself.

Yeah. Easy. Until easy became complicated.

To some extent, my desire to both watch the game and finish my work is known as wanting to have your cake, and eat it too.

I had my cake – Heck, it even had tons of icing on it as the Chargers won in the final minutes of the 4th Quarter.

But the eating of it didn’t go so well. In fact, I’ll be up pretty late because as you might have guessed, the work didn’t get entirely finished.

So with that, I think tonight I finally learned what the Ducks meant when they called Banks a Cake-Eater.

Tonight I learned, or should I say was reminded, of what it means to prioritize.