Procrastinate on procrastinating.

You’re going to wake up tired one morning or you’re going to be tired at the end of a long day. 

You’re going to be busy and have a ton going on.

You’re going to have different excuses for why you can’t do X or Y. 

There’s always something. 

You could give in and put it off until tomorrow. That’s one choice. 

You could also do whatever it is despite those things. 

In short, you could procrastinate on procrastinating. 

Put off taking it easy until tomorrow.

If you still feel like you need a break when tomorrow comes, maybe you actually need it. 

The disciplined path of doing

Learning how and what to do is easy. 

All you need is the right blog, podcast, book or friend. 

Which is only a click away thanks to the connecting power of the Internet.

Turning what you know into action, however, is hard work. 

It requires the painstaking work of moving things from the theoretical to the practical. From idea to reality. From thought to deed. 

Once more, it requires discipline. 

The discipline to make it a habit. 

The discipline to keep at it until you master it. 

To do it again, and again, and again. To drive it deep into your heart so that it flows from you like water from a well. 

So much time gets spent on learning. And rightfully so. 

Don’t swim so deeply in the waters of knowledge and forget the disciplined path of doing. 

The power of positive thinking

There is power in positive thinking. Although, it’s not the power you’ve been led to believe.

Positivity won’t suddenly bend the laws of nature and society to your will and make all your dreams come true. It’s not a magic weapon or secret to unlocking your best life now. 

It is a remarkably useful and essential tool to have on your toolbelt. 

Having a positive outlook and attitude improves your performance. 

One reason is that your emotions and thoughts aren’t an extra hurdle for you to climb. 

You can focus your energy and think about the actual problems in the real world, instead of the ones in your head. 

Why create more stress and work for yourself by thinking negatively? 

It might be a difficult habit to break, but it’s one worth it. 

Practice finding the good in every situation and focusing on it. Then set to banishing negativity from your mind. 

Keep it simple.

This is a simple blog. 

It is full of simple sentences, simple posts, and simple ideas. 

There's a reason why. 

Things don't have to be complicated to work. In fact, the simplest answer is often the best.

• Need more uninterrupted work time? Get up earlier. 
• Want to be and feel healthier? Eat nutritious whole foods and work out.
• Want to grow spiritually? Read your Bible. 

Don't confuse simple with easy. 

The most difficult things in the world are incredibly simple. 

• Love your neighbor
• Control your tongue
• Put others first

Each idea is so simple it's encapsulated in three words. But each is so hard none of us nail them perfectly. 

In a world of ever increasing complexity, your answers don't have to be. 

Complexity is often the lazy man’s way out. He doesn’t want to discipline himself to keep digging, to keep thinking, and to get creative.

One is about minimizing effort, while the other is about minimizing clutter.

Think hard. 

Remove clutter.

Keep it simple. 

Daily Disciplines

You want to be great. 

Or at the very least, the best possible version of you. 

You want to be kind, cheerful, respectable, gentle, and strong. 

You want your children to love, adore and respect you. You want them to look up to you. 

You want your spouse to speak of your tenderness, and servant hearted attitude towards them. 

You want your coworkers to value your contribution, and enjoy working with you. 

In all the things, you want to honor the Lord and make much of Him. To be the very picture of righteous living and a grace filled life. 

You desire all this to be true of you and more. 

It all starts with the daily disciplines. 

With a small collection of habits, you adopt and hold firm. 

Becoming the person you want to be takes a lifetime. It takes effort and discipline over the long haul. 

It takes getting one percent better each day, even if no one else can tell. 

Focus on building and holding firm to a small collection of daily disciplines. Things that may appear to have a small return on the front-end, but which yield massive change and growth on the back end. 

Things like getting up early, working out, controlling your tongue, responding rather than reacting, learning, and eating well. 

Focus on the daily disciplines rather than the vague notions of who you want to be and how you want others to view you.