The Challenge to myself

Here's my challenge to myself...

For the next year to live!

To live:

• and read His Word daily (and understand it/meditate on it)
• and deal with the sins in my life
• and surrender myself to Jesus, allow him to take the keys and become the driver instead of the passenger
• and work-out daily
• and eat nutritiously
• and not be in fear of failure
• and learn to be happy with what I already possess
  with friends
  with family
  with material objects
  with pets
  with talents
• and have patience with others
• and serve others
• and enjoy life!

This is my goal to myself and promise to God. All of these items are attainable, however men and women have come and gone and not achieved some of the items listed above. This is no easy feat and I may fail. That is okay but I am going to try my hardest. Some of the above items can be measured numerically or by pass/fail while others are subjective.

Two other goals I have are very measurable and are required for me to attain the other goals:

• limited television
  
• limited movie watching from home

I love movies and love watching television but I believe these two loves of been the demise of my current plateau. I get wrapped up in the drama of the television shows. Every night I sit and watch at least four hours of television. And then if nothing is on I put a DVD in from my 600+ collection. It's insane the amount of time I waste in the day staring mindlessly at a television screen, numbing my mind and being unproductive. Instead, I could be learning, helping, and being productive. I buy Newsweek every week and I am currently 6 magazines behind. If you take this one example and expand it to every interest, hobby, and lifetime goal I have you will find the same result...behind in every one! By living and trying to achieve the above goals, I am confident I will be able to focus more on what really matters.

So that's it....