Well, if you look, the last post was 8 days ago. It was about a new attempt at a routine. Looking over the past week, routine in my life seems to be one of the most unroutine things possible. But in trying to be more disciplined, at least work-wise, I feel like I have been immensely productive. I feel like I am the most prepared and planned 3 weeks before rehearsal than I have ever been. I still have work to do, but it's coming together.
Physically, I'm not as routine as I would like to be. Wanting to get up at 5:30 and walk each morning is the goal.....hasn't been achieved once. But, I am making decent choices with food, and have lost 2 pounds so far.
Musically, I'm making the time to practice. I've spent time over the past week working on arrangements of hymns for instrumentalists in worship for September and October. On that front, I've been quite productive. I've got a bunch more things on the list to be knocking out, and will start to plug away on them very soon.
Overall, in spending so much of my life making excuses for being mediocre at best, I know it's going to be a while to rebuild and retrain myself to make good habits. Whether it's overall motivation, physical, practicing, or any other thing in my life that I need to make better habits on, when I want to cut corners, be lazy, I stop and think about my wife, my 2 girls, and most importantly, God. I've wasted the time, talents and abilities He's given me, so I need to be making the best of today as I can. I can't change the past. I can only learn from it.
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