Discipline...I am in vast need of a lot more lately. Since law enforcement is a 24 hour, 7 days a week gig, you can quickly get out of your rhythm with all the different work schedules this job necessitates. As a result, you tend to stop exercising because you are not hitting the street or the weights at the same time everyday. Or eating right when you are in your 16th hour and the only thing open is fast food. Or sleep, one day its bed before ten, the next after two with the corresponding wake up time differentials. Missing family functions and not being there when the kids get up or go to bed or hit the ballfields etc. The only thing I am maintaining is family and church (read attending services) time and that's important but wow am I letting two many other things go because I will not simply force myself to due what must be done regardless of the time of day or work load.
So I am now attempting to, in no particular order:
1. began running again...5 times a week...right now hitting 3
2. volunteering with my church or really doing more with what I am volunteering for.
3. practicing my music
4. staying in touch with my friends (Jason...Jason...I think I remember someone with that name...)
5. getting the important chores around the home completed...have a porch to finish and a basketball hoop to put up.
6. get writing again-to include getting to the blog much more often.
7. loose 15 pounds...its just got to go
8. getting my physical and dental checkups done...off by years
9. get back to school.
10. drink less beer
There is a reason that veteran cops get heavy, smoke and are divorced...when you let all these things and more go because of your work schedule and duties you turn around and they are not around to recover.
Proverbs 1:2-4
2 for attaining wisdom and discipline;
for understanding words of insight;
3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life,
doing what is right and just and fair;
4 for giving prudence to the simple,
knowledge and discretion to the young-
2 comments:
My brother, your priorites are off.
If God doesn't come FIRST, everything, and everyONE else in your life will suffer.
Put God first. Offer each and every thing to Him, and in the words of St. Benedict, ask God to bring your work and your devotions to perfection. Only He can do that.
He'll only do it if you put Him first.
You don't know me, but trust me on this; I have learned it from experience and struggle to follow my own advice.
Well I guess it didn't come out but in everything I give God first thought, first action and first duty. Thus the list is done with prayer. But maybe it was not done totally with him in mind after all. I will think on it.
Thanks for the comment.
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