Vive La Révolution
Oftentimes, the necessity of converting the practices I’d like to pick up into habits falls by the wayside for me. I’m pretty good at doing it, too; there are a lot of things I know I should do with the time I have in a day, I just conveniently let myself forget to do them. In all honesty, 24 is a reasonable amount of hours to have in a day at this stage of my life, but rarely do I use my waking portion wisely. I think it may be this habit that in the long run causes me to feel quite slow. I do push myself but just to the point where I’m still comfortable – certainly not the best way to make the leaps and bounds towards becoming the person I’ve conjured an image of in my mind.
I observe and take note of the recent successes of certain friends who seem to have taken such care in niching and developing themselves. I haven’t, and I can’t help but wonder where I’d be personally, socially, professionally if I’d taken such care myself. Even so, I don’t mean to degrade my efforts. I know I work hard and I’ve met many of the goals I’ve set, but I tote around and preach the idea of personal edification to literally anyone and yet fail to champion my own cause.
It is necessary that I do so, but before I can dive in with my expectations set at Goliath heights for this edifying journey I’m trying to embark on, I think everything must begin with a personal culture change. Let me set some long-term goals for myself, modeled off of the bullshit rhetoric that “a diet isn’t a month long, it’s a lifestyle,” which really isn’t bullshit at all.
The idea often preached from the pulpits I’ve looked to has the echo of a warning for my lax leanings: God has a plan to prosper me but it’s not just going to be handed over. In practice, I have to do the footwork to receive my blessings, living in expectation that they’ll be waiting for me at the end of my efforts. I'll do my damnedest to translate this idea into belief and throw all of my efforts behind it as it becomes the rallying cry of the Nadia Cultural Revolution of 2017.