Self Discipline

Every day my boss makes a 3 minute message that he has sent out to the whole company. I have been moving them into the file I created just for him and was saving them up for when I have "more time". Duh. I think I have over 2 hours worth saved up for "later".

At last weeks staff meeting one of my co-workers asked all of us if we took the time to listen to the daily message...I sheepishly tried to pretend I didn't understand the question or look super appalled that Andrew wasn't listening to the daily messages. My co-worker then said just those few minutes each day makes a huge difference in how she approaches work...I decided to give it a go.

The good thing about the daily messages is they often will repeat in short snippets things George has talked about in past meetings, but they only focus on one particular point at a time AND they are ONLY 3 minutes long. Today's message focused around self-discipline. George said, "I KNOW that everything I have AND everything I don't have in my life is directly related to the amount of discipline I employ in my daily decisions."

Maybe it is obvious, but it is SO true. All those tiny and seemingly unimportant decisions we make on a daily basis add up to everything we are and all that we have in our lives. I can think of more "bad" decisions I have made over the years that add up to bigger "bad" decisions. One lately is my horrible habit of swearing. I know I seem so innocent in my writing (wink), but I have developed a bad habit of swearing when I am under strain, which unfortunately has been more often than not lately.  It used to be just for effect or to make someone laugh or at least to make a strong point, but when you swear too often, it just becomes foul and not an effective use of language.

I finally had to admit I have a problem when I almost got in an accident on the road and yelled out a blasphemy, one I have ALWAYS hated when people use it, and then tried to rationalize with myself that I was really just praying - sounds like full scale denial to me.

I think I am moving away from the point of this post, but maybe not. I can sit here and talk about gaining weight, eating right and exercise, making more or less money, but the same principle exists here with the swearing...because now I need to exercises EXTRA self-discipline over a problem I shouldn't really even have if only I had exercised  a modicum of self-awareness before I had a new bad habit to break.

I also write of this personal challenge so I will be more likely to hold myself accountable, wish me luck.

At the end of the day today my next door office mate came in to chat with me and he dragged Andrew in with him. I asked Kurt if he knew that "all he is and all he isn't is directly related to the amount of discipline he employs in his life?" Andrew nodded sagely and said he was glad I was paying attention while at staff meeting - looks like we are both becoming more accountable.

I Am Grateful,
HB

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