The Pain of Self-Control

I realize now why I’ve been feeling so semangated to start exercising regularly now. I’ve always likened the pain of physical disciplines to all other disciplines in life, thinking that if I can ensure physical pain, hence the other “pains” would be much more bearable.

I think I’ve blogged about this a long time ago, but really, delayed gratification is something I’ve had to exercise over and over again, at different stages of my life, and it doesn’t matter how small or how big the issue is at hand, it tends to get more difficult at times, even though you’ve kinda conquered this problem before. Oh well.

But guess what? I realize now that because I’ve started working out the physical muscles, somehow, it gets easier to exercise discipline on learning how to say,”NO”, when I so need to do. Previously, I reigned as Queen of Justification for the past decade. I was able to justify every single thing under the sun and I even managed to psych myself into feeling all good about it. Now, in hindsight, self-justification merely serves to please temporarily; leaving me only to pick up the mess afterwards.

Now, I can look at temptation in the face and sneer at it, in fact, I am now able to say, “Get out of my face, YOU!”

What a victorious feeling it is to be empowered to say no. Thanks to a friend and mentor, D, who has been encouraging and beckoning me in that direction. It is indeed wonderful!

In the middle of reading Joyce Meyer’s book, The Battlefield of the Mind. Really good book. You’d be surprised how we really need to read the basics of the basics. Over and over again, until we finally get it.

Get THEE behind me!