The Revitilization of my Life-Day 105-CHANGE 34

My great grandmother use to always tell me, "laziness will kill you." I never really understood what she meant by that until now. If you don't get up and do something with yourself, you will eventually die and I mean die spiritually, metally, and yes even physically. What made me think about this was the few events that happened on yesterday. When I got off work yesterday, I went home and cut the grass. After cutting the grass, I began to work on one of my clients website (www.jolandagreen.com). After finishing the website, I then picked up one of the five books I am reading (The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler) and read about 15 pages of it. When I fianally put the book down and looked at the clock it was only 8:30pm. I was amazed at how much I had gotten done in the few hours I had been home. Once I realized how early it was, I picked up another book (The Life of Fredrick Douglass-for research on the novel I am writing) and begin to read. By now, I was beat. I put the book up and then went to bed.

A lot of times we complain about how much time we don't have and never really utilize the time we do have. I could have easily said that I had worked all day and I needed to rest and relax and I will wait until I was off to do all the things I did, but I didn't. I told myself that I had plenty of time to get it done if I just went and did it. This is how most of us think. We think that we need to be off and well rested before we can do certain things. Then when we are off, we bring about another excuse, "I'm off and I need some rest because I had a long week." This will continue on for years if you let it. Stop making excuses for your excuses. Suck it up and get it done. Most of the time you are not really too tired to do the things that you want to do, its just that it feels odd because it not part of what you normally do. BREAK YOUR ROUTINE! What if God had a routine with us? What if he only did things a certain way at a cretain time? How would our lives be? I break my routine all the time so that I will always have time for my wife. She never has to ask me to stop working on any of my projects because I put the time into them every spare minute I have and when it's time for us, it's time for us. If it takes me getting off work after a long day and coming home cutting the grass, then that's what I will do. But the benefit of knowing that my wife is pleased to know that she has time to spend with me and all things are taken care of is well worth the sacrifice. Again, I ask you, what if God was routine with us, where would we be?

-K.J Swint