Lately on my days off of work, I've been making progress around home again. I seem to go in bursts and spurts. For a while I feel crappy and do little... and then something clicks and progress comes in an abundance. I find it funny how that happens. I find it annoying. I would love to have what it takes to just push through during those times when energy and desire wanes.
There seems to be so much to do all the time and not enough time to do it in. I hear that a lot from people I know, too. It's not a situation isolated to my life alone. It takes a special kind of person to just persevere regardless of how they feel. Especially these days. The world is full of people who will make excuses/explanations when things don't go as they probably should. I am one of them. And the world is full of people who use those excuses and/or explanations to give them an out. I probably do that on occasion, too. Perhaps we all do to some degree or another.
I try to be one of those that doesn't give up but to anyone who would watch my life from a distance, I'm sure it might not seem that I'm trying. As with anything, the key is to examine ourselves periodically... or even regularly. It's tough to be honest with ourselves but it IS necessary if we are to make progress. Grace is a primary feature. Yes, grace. Grace with ourselves. Sometimes it's not so hard to extend grace to others but to give it to ourselves is quite another story.
Grace. Take the tough look. Assess where we do well and where we are headed for failure. Make the decision to change directions. Forget what is behind and move forward on the new path. That doesn't mean to ignore it if we have hurt others on the path we were on. We sometimes need to acknowledge that and then moving on is easier... but we do need to move on. And each time we make a mistake, each time we realize we were getting off track, we need to do it all over again. Assess, decide, change and move forward. Each time we do, it will give the next time a new simplicity and wear in that path to living life as we should: in grace toward ourselves and others.
Dee..
