life's great struggle
life's great struggle for me (at least at the moment) is working out. I've been awful at it this summer and my body knows it. I don't feel as good as i could, my stress level is higher, i could go on.
But the crux of my problem is that i've been really busy and i always think that an easier life is right around the corner. "next week will be better and i can start then. There's NO WAY i can do it this week!" but "next week" is no better.
This is not just a working out problem, it's the same with going out on dates with my wife, or calling a friend who lives out of town, or going to lunch with someone i want to go deeper with. "Now" always seems horribly inconvenient and i imagine that somehow tommorow will change all that. But it never works that way.
I guess what i'm learning is that you just have to do stuff like this NOW and not wait around. But how do you even begin?
argh! this makes me wonder if i'm bad at life-management or if i'm just struggling to fit too much in.
And hopefully this will serve as an adequate excuse for NOT blogging very often :)
posted by Dion @ 8/22/2006 10:57:00 PM
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13 Comments:
Hm...i suppose it could serve as a good excuse not to blog. Though it is good to see a new entry from you (now i need to work on new entries)
But anyway..I know what you mean byt the life-managment thing. I go through the same thing. Trying to manage whats important and what i need to do aswell as whats fun and what i want to do. To me it all comes down to priority. Whats more important. I have had this issue at work and have almost gotten fired for it. But in this situation i think i made the right management choice. I chose to put more time and concentration into the church and volunteering and doing stuff for God and such and put less concentration on work. It almost got me fired. But i think that because i made the right choice God blessed me with letting me keep my job.
Now i know you situation is a bit different, but i think the same priciples apply (even if what your doing is not directly for God). I think that by making the choice to go on those extra dates with Joc, or things like that God will bless you with less stress and more efficiency at work. Maybe thats just me. But it seems to me that this all boils back down to the priority issue that was the sermon topic not too long ago.
just my two sense =D
good words here tylor. you are right it DOES come down to priorities and that message a few weeks ago started me thinking about all this stuff.
And i also think you are right, God will bless the whole when you make good decisions concerning the parts.
maybe for me it's a courage issue, or a boundaries issue... beating back other demands so that i can live a balanced life built around priorities and NOT demands.
thanks for the reminder
oh and i'm shocked that you actually heard my sermon, i thought that was the time in the service when you went to the bathroom, got a drink, took a nap, etc. :)
HAHA...you'd be surprised...despite the fact that i leave for a minute or two i do hear your sermons and i do pay attention. There are good lessons to be learned there...this is one example. And its helped me. (Though i do think i will be quitting when i am old enough to get the job i want because my manager is a tyrant. But thats another story.)
Anyway for me i don't think there is anything to be "afraid" of where courage would be an issue. But for you, i'm not sure. All i can say is (and you should know this too, mister pator guy) just keep trusting in Him...it will all be fine =D
Your alive. It's good to have a post from you.
I have found that it's not just priorities but cutting out the fat so to speak. An example would be those crappy tv shows. If I just cut them out I save hours a week that I could put into something else. I can wind down a number of ways... why watch tv when I can wind down with a workout.
Some things like this give me time for what's important.
i agree Matt. there is fat in my life. I don't watch TV hardly at all, but i can do mindless stuff on the computer once i get home from work. I think it's better than being at the gym because at least i'm "home" but it's not like i'm spending meaningful time with my family if i'm doing computer junk.
the other challenge is night meetings. I have to come back at night for stuff so it makes working out after work not so easy... but maybe i should just come in smelly... priorities :)
So, I was going to wait until later to leave a comment, but then I figured I better take your advice and do it now.
hehe :)
we should hang out.. RIGHT NOW! oh.. I'm at work.. grr
ah peter, thanks for taking me back to the heart of my struggle :)
wow. i feel totally frustrated by this discussion!
but, i don't have time to do anything about it!
i think i'll go watch some crappy tv shows... that is, after i finish my computer junk.
HAHA. just kidding.
don't you hate when someone speaks the truth and you just can't justify your way out of it? a wise person in my life once said:
"You can't ever say, 'Sorry, I can't do that, I don't have time.' We all have time. We DO have it. And we'll always have time for what we REALLY want to have time for."
ah, priorities. we expose the truth of our hearts by what we really DO do with our time... if we really wanted to do the other stuff, we'd cut the "less important" in favor of it.
so perhaps the problem is we know what our priorities "should" be in our mind, or some imaginary grid... but, in our heart of hearts, our real priorities don't match up... thus, we spend our time on other things, either secondary or perhaps even wasteful.
the heart of man... deceitful it is!
-Jessie
Ah Working Out... yeah. That could be a priority. What happens when you have so many other priorities?!
No seriously, what I need to do is EAT LESS because working out just doesn't fit.
I have God time, family time, work time, serving time.
Things I still need to squeeze in: Kath & Brett time, more family time. No room for working out.
brett- you brought up another part of this, indirectly. i want to WANT to work out because i think it's good for me, and i think my body needs it... but frankly that doesn't motivate me near as much as my vanity does.
That's another annoying thing about this. when i'm on a roll exercising my first thought isn't "oh good i'm taking good care of the body God gave me" it's, "man, i hope all this is making me look better" I'm a pretty wretched guy
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