Well its been yet another month and I honestly have nothing good or motivating to report about my little diet experiment except for one thing: It was a bad idea! I wanted to try a different eating plan each month to see which ones worked the best. I started with South Beach, then I tried…
Category: One Word 365
Focus
Discipline requires FOCUS. Focus requires DISCIPLINE. You cannot have one without the other. fo·cus/ˈfōkəs/ Noun: The center of interest or activity. Maximum clarity Converge on a central point Bring into alignment Attention to detail Adjustment Fixed Attention Concentrating interest Point of origin The principal site The part of prominence, usually for emphasis or contrast. Clear…
Conversations with Grace
O to Grace how great a debtor, daily I’m constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee. I love the hymn Come Thy Fount of Every Blessing. Each line of every verse is so perfectly scripted to speak to my heart in specific seasons. Tonight I was overcome…
How to Lose 50 Pounds?
I am 2 months into my year of discipline and 4 and 1/2 months into my first year of motherhood. All things being what they are, I think I am ready to start applying discipline to a very undisciplined area of my life: eating healthy and exercising. I have a love hate relationship with eating…
The Best Way I’ve Found to Memorize Scripture
As I alluded to in my previous blog on discipline, I feel led to start my quest for inner transformation with memorizing scriptures. Last week I took some time to find some verses having to do with discipline and wrote them on index cards to use as “flash cards” to aid in my memorization. I…
The Semantics of Discipline
When I think of discipline I think of punishment. Discipline is a consequence of bad decisions, mistakes, behaviors that are wrong. Discipline means loss of privileges or having something you enjoy withheld from you. For me, discipline is something to be avoided. However, in my new pursuit of a disciplined lifestyle, I am beginning to…
Fifteen Days and …
Nothing. My “one word” for 2012 is discipline and so far the only thing disciplined in my life is not being disciplined. Seems like there is “always something” that prevents my efforts to become a disciplined person. In the last 15 days the things blocking my pursuit of discipline were unexpected social outings and a…
One Word 2011 recap and 2012 preview
This time last year I wrote a post about Passion 2011 and my One Word for 2011: Courage. I’m not sure I did a very good job writing blog posts about courage last year; but as I look back over the year I do see glimpses of courage amidst all the major life changes that…
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