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Work Hard, Play Harder! Gretchen Wilson + Saving Grace = Powerful Statement

If you work hard, you better play harder. That’s the message of Gretchen Wilson’s song.

I know I’ve been talking a LOT about the TNT TV show Saving Grace, but it’s got a lot going on for it right now! So, it would be in bad taste to not tell you all of the latest news, right? That brings us to the wonderful fact that Grammy winner (I won five! Or not - you guess) Gretchen Wilson has released a music video in association with Saving Grace. The song is appropriately called Work Hard, Play Harder. This fits in perfectly for the Saving Grace theme: Embrace Your Grace. Forget notions of devout nuns with bowed heads and silent demeanors. Nothing against nuns, but that’s not what this phrase is about.

I promised myself I wouldn’t say this unless I MEANT it, and I do: I don’t like most Country music (I liked that one Shania Twain CD for about a week), but I really do like this song. I mean, I’m just a 20-something girl who enjoys a catchy anthem about independence! And yea, I sing along. What about you?

“This campaign is about strong women who follow their instincts, their intuition and their guts. It’s about women who never back down,” said Tricia Melton, senior vice president of marketing for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movie (TCM). “Gretchen Wilson truly embodies the ‘Embrace Your Grace’ code, especially with her new song ‘Work Hard, Play Harder.’ The video showcases her strength, attitude and defiant spirit, all of which match the heart and soul of Holly Hunter’s Det. Grace Hanadarko in SAVING GRACE.”

I’m really going to put myself to the challenge of applying this theme song to my life today. Too often too many people are working themselves silly and then they hardly let themselves relax, or bask in the glow of their hard work. You have to appreciate yourselves. And not just for the big things, for the tiny things too. I got up super early this morning because I went to bed early with a migraine (the bane of my very existence!) So, today I’ve already walked the dog, fed the dog and kitten (she’s not a cat until one year has passed!), and had two big glasses of water.

You might especially be questioning the water thing, but I’m someone who does not even like water - despite hearing that it will cure 5,000 different things AND made your skin glow. But with a little crystal light and lots of ice, water isn’t all that bad. So whatever accomplishments you have today - don’t shrug them off as nothing. Everything has the possibility to become something extraordinary.

Except mullets. Just say ‘no’ to those.

Picture courtesy of TNT

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