Day Three

Well the getting up early still isn't easy for me. There is a giant mental battle every morning when that alarm goes off, it's dark outside and in the room, its cold, and everyone in the house is sleep breathing....oh how I just want to join right back in with them. But the voice in my head keeps saying, "your life depends on it, your life depends on it, get up!" So I do.

Gratitude - Its amazing as soon as I get downstairs and start writing in my gratitude journal my mind seems to wake up very quickly. I've noticed that I can walk around my home in the dark and not have to really wake up or think, but writing requires thinking and I notice my mind wake up instantly...I think I'm on to something here. The first thing I wrote down that I'm grateful for though is my warm, cozy bed. :)

Physical - last night I played basket ball at the church and while it felt good to really exercise again and regardless of the fact that our team won and we are now 2-0 I had a sad realization...I'm the old, out of shape guy that's getting the "pity complements" from the younger guys on the team. I think that brought out some drive in me. I remember in high school when I played varsity soccer for a couple years, I knew I barely made the team, I was a big guy built for football more than soccer so to have speed, agility and stamina to keep up with the other guys on the field I had to work a lot harder. I remember after long hard practices where we just conditioned our guts out, I would stay another 30 minutes and run the suicides a couple more times. I had to do a little more to prove to myself and others I could compete...I felt that desire again last night. Don't be surprised if this section starts including something to fulfill that need.

Soul Purpose - Alma 18, Ammon teaching king Lamoni about God. Two lessons I learned, one he was a faithful servant, even though amazed by his strength and wisdom he didn't use that against them but used it to give more than he took. And second, he found common ground when discussing beliefs with the King, brought out the truth that was already in the King and expounded upon it.

Mental - listened to Garrett's audio talking about the 5 tracks of wealth and the dream map. Followed by his explanation and reason for the Producer Power Hour. I need to work on my dream map again. This is something I've done many times in the past 5 years, but my mindset is changing, especially on this principle of Producer vs Consumer.

Financial - arranged my agenda for work and prepared for some conversations I'm going to be having today. Also have some work to do regarding scripting.

Social - plans have changed a little bit regarding date night so I had to make some adjustments to the how, but I took a little more time to get clear on the why/what. Then after I got Harley already and off to school this morning, I went and climbed in bed with Kara and Mylie and we played a new game on my phone for about 20 minutes. It's always an enjoyable time to spend snuggling in bed and just talking with Mylie. She's hilarious in the mornings...good start, on we go.