It’s a new year! I need
to refocus and stop giving in and quitting!
Today, while praying, I ask God to unsettle me once again in this bad
habit of just giving up and quitting, of becoming lazy and just not having any
motivation. I remember why I started in
January of 2012: to be able to praise in the freedom that I wanted. Well let me tell you something, Sunday at
church I got another eye opener. I am
out of shape again!! I want to kick
myself, but I don’t want to get in that mindset that I have easily done in past
years. I want to trust God to help me,
motivate me and heal me!
Today, I weighed in at
162.3. Yuck, is all I had to say to
myself this morning. I was hoping the
scale wouldn’t look that bad but it did.
I was down to 148 by the end of 2012 (from 173 at the beginning of 2012)
and I have slowly added the weight back on.
Because I have slowly stopped the hard work and just let myself become
lazy.
This morning I decided
to set a goal for myself and stick with it!
My goal is 140 by the
end of the year:
- I am going to trust God to help me!
- I am not going to quit.
- I am not going to back down.
- I am going to do this for me.
- I am going to do this for my family.
How can I achieve this
goal?
- Pray!
- Remind myself daily of Hebrews 12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
- Start slow but work hard
- Keep going – even if I take a break – to never completely stop!
