Every night I go to bed feeling like the day is wasted. I try to do the things that I have stated in previous posts but fail miserably. I seem to want the kids to be perfect all the time and I am very demanding of them. I am sure my wife goes to bed feeling very under appreciated.
I feel a lot of it has to do with the stupid TV. I plan on getting rid of DishTV very soon. I find that I am watching more ball games than reading bedtime stories. Tonight, my little boys just put themselves to bed when I told them to go get ready. Next thing I knew, the Rockets 22 game win streak was over and my boys were fast asleep. I didn't pray with them (again) and I didn't get to kiss them goodnight.
Well, I say it's the TV but I realize it's my lack of self discipline. I want to start exercising too but can't seem to make time. I want to study more but just dabble in my reading so I don't acquire as much information from reading materials as I would like AND I didn't fully follow the Rockets game. Maybe if I would have turned the game off or recorded it...but no.
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TV isn't really a temptation to me - games aren't anyway, I have to force myself to watch even teams that I like :P
but I've got my own weaknesses/time wasters... I suppose most people do. In moderation, those things that absorb us may not be bad, but they can suck us in entirely, esp if we don't realize how much time we spend on them. It helps to simply be conscious of where time goes.
My uncle has lost a lot of weight, and one major reason is that he keeps a journal of everything he eats and how many calories he consumes. Maybe the same principle would work for TV and other things. What I mean is, if you had to keep a list of how much TV you watched/ how longed you blogged (that's pointed to me ;P)/how much you read for pleasure not growth, and had to admit daily that you had spent X hours on that, then you might have an easier time keeping consumption to a moderate amount.
I know that when I'm conscious of how much time I spend blogging, I spend less time just browsing and checking for comments.
Heehee, I say that as I'm typing a[nother] comment... Whoopsie, I need to get to work!
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