Every Sunday I play piano at two churches in my town. At my home church I play prelude, hymns, offertory, accompany the choir... the whole sha-bang. At the other church I only accompany the choir. These are easy gigs for me. You see, I've played piano most of my life and started accompanying choirs when I was in middle school. I took lessons for awhile, but then stopped in high school. There are weeks that go by where I hardly practice. I sight read a piece of music and maybe run through it a couple more times to get it "good enough" and then move on from there to the next thing in line in my busy life. When all is said and done I would say I am an average pianist. There are a few pieces of music a year that challenge me to stretch my skills.
That's my pattern in my personal life. Is what I am doing right now good enough to get by? Yes? Good. Move on to the next thing.
I am struggling with this mind set while focusing on discipline this year. I've been on Facebook less than I was before. I am saying no to sweets sometimes. I am exercising 2-3 times a week most of the time. I have lost some weight. I am journaling more regularly than before. I've read more books.
But I can tell in my heart that what I've been doing lately is just getting by - doing things "good enough" but not attaining excellence. Is doing "good enough" good enough? At the end of the year, I ultimately want to feel like I was challenged, pushed through it and came out a changed person on the other side. I want to be wildly successful in this journey.
Because, you see, I'm worth it. I'm good enough to do better than good enough. I deserve my best attempt. I deserve excellence.
The question looming - what does my best attempt look like?


2 comments:
Just some thoughts for you. You are working on changing a great many things in your life. I'm concerned that if you try to give everything your all, all at once you may become overwhelmed or burnt out. What if you try to break it down a bit and every couple of weeks adding in more of your goals for discipline? Get more disciplined at several things and then add in a few more areas. Prioritize what needs to change. I know that I get easily overwhelmed and then freeze if I attempt to change too many things at once. This is not in any way meant to discourage you!! :-) I know that you will be successful no matter how you go about this!
I'm with Jackie. Break it down, concentrate maybe on a couple of things? The truth is, we CAN'T do it all. :( And, there are days when only half of our "tasks" get our "all." There are days when the only thing that gets my "all" is a spoon full of nutella.
YOU can do this, though.
You're pretty incredible.
(I mean, that cake you made for R's birthday looked like the PHOTO above it.)
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