I have been thinking about self-control a lot lately. I feel like I should break out singing Safety Kids...
"Self Control
You got to have a little Self Control
I am the boss of what I do and say
Try Self Control Today!"
I stay up late reading and boy do I pay for it the next day. I eat what I want and I pay for it. I put off work and I get chewed out or have to stay up late. And many other examples. I know there are consequences. I just want to do what I want at the moment so I do it. And I pay for it. And I know I will pay for it. And I do it anyway. Isn't that dumb! I do these things to myself. I in fact punish myself by doing what I want.
I know that if I do what is best then next day will be better, my body will feel and look better, my finances will be better, etc., etc., etc.
So I am practicing. I am working on thinking through things before or as I am doing them. I think carefully about what I am eating and how it will make me feel. I think about why I want to stay up rather than go to bed and how it will affect the next day. I think about need vs. want as I make purchases.
Max is a great motivator. I don't want to do these things just for him. But I know that he will be affected as well. If I am cranky because I stayed up late he is the one who has to spend all day with me being cranky.
I, of course, mess up. But I am also working on not kicking myself. Instead simply examining the point at which I should have done something different and how I can better approach it the next time.
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7 comments:
Does it help to sing the song? I could use a little more self control. Your examples were all to true for me as well.
Good luck with all that!
You're an inspiration. ;-)
Amen sister! I am so working on the same things! I love knowing you are going through the same thing. Hugs.
I just had a similar realization about myself. I had great self control until summer came and it all swiftly went out the window.
Now as I am trying to get the self-control back I am thinking that this would all have been a lot easier if I had just stuck with it in the first place. If only I had realized that at the time huh?
Self-Control...?
Parents...I just don't understand.
You can make me eat healthy but you can't make me like it! ;)
I love that song! I even sang it to Dragon the other day and he looked at me funny.
The interesting thing is knowing what you are doing is going to produce a negative result and you either say to yourself "I don't care, this moment is worth it" and then regret it later anyways or if you are like me you hide inside the book hoping that the clock will stop and you can finish the book and not be any more tired the next day. We are silly aren't we? Making choices we KNOW we will regret later. I need to analyze that more.....but later, not now. Right now I'm enjoying reading everyone's blogs....instead of going to bed.
I liked this blog. Especially since I live those same regrets of eating and staying up late and how I look. Thanks for a good reminder.
This may come as quite a shock to you but that song is from Lorenzo's Songbook. Those movies drive me crazy but they have some good parts.
Just didn't want you to order the safety kids and then be upset that the song wasn't on them.
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