Sermon 1/29/2012: One Month In!!

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One Month In!!

How is your New Years going?

Still on your diet? Still working out? Still off the cigarettes? Being more charitable? Being that overall, better you, you are hoping and looking for?

If so, congratulations! If not, don't give up!

Like we tell newer folks here at TOTJO, and tell each other constantly, take your time... It is not a race... It is good to set goals, just do not set unrealistic goals...

Yea, if you meet those goals quickly, won't you be happy!!

But will you make that goal?

Or, like so many, have you decided that since you won't hit your mark, then "just forget it!"

Take your time... Set small, realistic goals... One pound of weight lost each month... One lesson a week... One less cigarette a day... One less hot dog from the gas station (hint Jestor)... Maybe even one less profanity a day...

Remember, none if us are perfect... None of us are infallible... All you can do, is do your best...

This is not an excuse... Look in the mirror, be honest... Have you really gave it your best effort (one less hot dog Jestor)? Or have you justified it with, "well, it is just a hot dog..."

Constant vigilance, constant effort....

Just as getting "rusty" at a physical exercise from lack of practice, the same can be said for any endeavor...

Practice constantly, stay the course...

Good luck... And enjoy the journey...

It's not all rainbows and butterflies, but its not all razor blades and alcohol, either...

May the Force be with You....

;)

Comments 14

  1. Jestor
    Sorry about formatting, ill fix it Monday... :(
  2. Michael James Kitchen
    The longest paragraph you have ever written Jestor :)
  3. Michael D
    My exercise goals fell off already due to a painful hand injury, but I will try again tomorrow and see if I can make it work.

    One step at a time... :-)
  4. Matt Colwell
    Personally I no longer make new years resolutions. For years I decided that I would give up smoking on 1st January and rarely made it beyond a few days, a week at most. One day I simply decided the time was right and I've been a non smoker ever since.

    Any change in life style requires dedication and practice to get it right and I completely agree that it is best to take things slowly when the time and place is right for you.

    'It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.' - Chinese proverb
  5. Trey Childs
    30 Days today, and still not 1 single cigarette. I totally agree with this sermon, and I also agree with Psyddhattha... The time must be right, and you must be willing to make a change. But when that change comes from within you, and you use the energy of the force around you at that time, there is little that you can not change. I think the lesson is that: if the desire is in you, don't look to what's around you to keep you going. As Yoda said: 'Do, or do not. There is no try.'
  6. Jestor
    Sorry, Deja! I hit the - instead of the +

    Good job!!
  7. Michael D
    That's a great quote Psyddhattha! I'm stealing it for the daily gem, haha!
  8. Meagan Bunch
    Reminds me of the Japanese expression "CHIRI MO TSUMOREBA YAMA TO NARU" (Piled up specks of dust become a mountain). It teaches the moral that little by little and bit by bit, one's persistant efforts will lead to acheivement of one's end goal.
  9. Vor-Mel
    Thank you for your good councils.
    May the Force be with you.
  10. Wescli Wardest
    As always, Jestor has good words of wisdom and truth.
    And I never tire of his charm. I look forward to his next sermon.

    May the Force be with you my friend.
  11. 666
    almost anything that can happen this 2012, is going to better than the last year...
    was really bad in all faces, all ways for me, but this year, I start remembering the force, at any time, to catch the path again... I don't give up, i have so much to do, to improve of myself, but the first is, find my path again, I don't know, if the force is present in your mind during the normal day activity, for me is the way to be calm, to think, to not become angry or mad..., i have it present, in mind and body, at almost all the time, I am not active here, posting or sharing, but I read... soon, I'm going to be ready to start my studies in here, catch and follow what I left pending.
    Thanks
  12. Todd Puckett
    This year will good, like 666 said.. it has to better than the last. I found you guys on Temple day:) And things have been looking up. No stopping me now, always forward. Thanks for advise Jester..
    Fennan
  13. Lycaenion
    haha im a portillos person,chicago style with extra mustard,no onion and a whole lot of hot peppers.we can always try harder.you only fail when you stop trying.
  14. James Richardson
    The new year has been very interesting and stressing. With all of the requirements of personal development it has led me to another place to view life in a new way. I recently had a cousin die he was a young man without any children. He was dynamite in a bundle, he did every thing with his emotions with his heart and emotions on his sleeve. I never got express how much he meant to me before he went into his coma. It has led me to want to see more life enter into the world and that a generation can come in with resolve that they will make the world anew. I know the tide is rising against the world changing and hope continues to fade but the understanding the hope remains in the hidden place of our hearts and the will to teach our loved ones that they can alter things not for the worst, or voting for the canidate of least resolve, but the hidden power is waiting to come out and flood every life with truth that will last and will defeat the enemy of death.

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