90 x 3 = Maybe This Time...

at 02/02/10 1:18AM
Well, I started my exercise program again today. I hope to follow the program for 90 days.

This will be my third “official start” since I bought the DVD’s about a year ago.

Each other time I made it about a month before I sputtered and stopped.

The first time I started, I started marathon training at the same time, so after a month, as the runs got longer, I just didn’t have the gas to continue exercising on top of running and working too. The second time I started I was going good for about a month, and then started fall-term classes. The transition from my summer work/workout schedule to fall’s work/school/workout schedule proved greater than my resolve.

So here I go again. I have no real reason to expect a better run this time, but persistence has got to count for something!

Right now I am still working my 40 hour a week job, and am taking more class-hours of school work this term than I ever have before (well, more by one class-hour, but that’s still more)! I just feel like I need to try again. I’m tired of feeling tired, tired of using “being busy” as an excuse for loosing all of last year’s gains.

When, in the future, I am working a busy job, and probably raising children (who are no doubt fated to be as totally exasperating as I was as a child), what excuse will I have then? Am I willing to resign myself to being a flabby, tired, depressed dad? No! My future kids deserve better, my wife deserves more from me, I expect more out of myself!!!

I know that I CAN do this. I just need to get organized, stop making excuses and do it.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, if I can’t persevere now, in the flesh, how can I expect to endure amid deeper trials?

This period in my life may seem tough to me, but it really is a light burden. By living up to this small, easy, and temporal trial, I might prove that I have been faithful with a few things (namely my time, body, mind, and future), and hope that this effort will prove that I will be worthy of being put in charge of many things.

To God be the glory.

~Brian
  • beavermom
    You are indeed a worthy son! You can do it!! Love you!
    by beavermom at 02/02/10 3:02AM
  • thewifeofbud
    You are an encouragement always. Love you!
    by thewifeofbud at 02/02/10 9:32AM
  • larryandrosalie
    You were not exasperating! More precocious I'd say! :o) Love you and miss you!!
    by larryandrosalie at 02/02/10 4:13PM
  • lifeisgoood
    Amazing! And "fated to be totally exasperating" made me laugh out loud.
    by lifeisgoood at 02/02/10 5:22PM
  • holly_ann
    Third time's a charm! You can do it!
    by holly_ann at 02/03/10 4:10PM
  • robynbobm
    press on! :)
    by robynbobm at 02/04/10 1:29AM
  • niffer
    you can do it!
    by niffer at 02/05/10 9:26PM
  • redmartineau
    ...First week down.
    by redmartineau at 02/07/10 9:25PM
  • fullofgrace
    i'm interested....keep us updated!
    by fullofgrace at 02/08/10 6:29PM