Do you ever wonder why you have the time to watch TV, post on Facebook, surf the Internet, gossip on the phone, etc? Yet when it comes to doing things that are going to move us forward in life we seem to say "I have no time to read, study, write, exercise, etc". Why is it so easy to do what we shouldn't? I believe God made us this way. He wants to see who is eager for the blessings and who just sits around making excuses. What if your blessing was in the flip of the next page, the step of the next exercise routine, the script in the next workbook your studying. So many times we give up when the blessing is right there. I encourage you not to be hard on yourself, but be faithful to yourself, even if you have to be faithless to something else.
Every Monday I give myself a task to complete. I name it at the beginning of the week and I tell myself each day how proud I am to have made it through the day keeping my promise to myself. One week I choose no TV another week I chose mirror affirmations, another week I chose no Facebook for the week, etc.
What can you do without next week? Choose it and then daily remind yourself how much self control you have and how proud of yourself you are. Because at the end of each day, it is ourselves who controlled our day.
(c) 2011 Ebony Larijani
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