With every New Years, we all come up with resolutions. Our good friend, Jessica, referenced www.oneword365.com in her blog so I figured that’s a great way to come to my resolution.
My word is: deliberate.
I want to be deliberate in everything I do; in studying the Bible, in parenting, in exercising, in eating, in work, in my marriage. I want to be more deliberate in everything.
For Christmas, I gave Megan a book. She’d rather be like every other 14 year old girl reading the Hunger Games but I got her a book written by the man of her dreams. You may think I’m the man of her dreams but I’m just the man of her reality. The man of her dreams is Drew Brees. I thought she could use an inspirational book and it has worked. But I digress. Talking about his rehab of his torn shoulder, he writes you just need to “win the day.”
That quote led me to my choice of the word “deliberate.”
Each day can be a failure or a success. But it’s just a day. Trying to focus on 365 days of being at the top of my game is daunting. If I focus on trying to win each day, my goals seem much more attainable.
When I wake up and don’t have a plan for the morning, I don’t read the Bible. When I’m at work and don’t think about what I’m going to eat later, I’ll pick up fast food. Also at work, when I’m not deliberate about doing the routine tasks, I’ll sit back and look at Facebook on my phone and let the work pile up. When I’m not deliberate about showing my love to Megan, I let her birthday go by without getting her a real gift. When I don’t plan on putting exercise in the day, I’ll just fall asleep on the couch watching a tv show I didn’t even care to watch in the first place. When I’m not deliberate about parenting my 3 amazing boys, they can go days without seeing the outside of the house.
All of these things need to change this year. And for me to do that, I need to be DELIBERATE.
If you get a chance, please remind me of my one word!
Happy New Year!
