The reason that I haven't been posting much lately is because of these three summer homework assignments I recieved that have taken a huge chunk of my last couple of weeks of summer. I put these off as long as I possibly could. That's how I seem to do every important assignment.
I seem to procrastinate on everything. It's as if I enjoy what I'm doing if I know I'm procrastinating something else. I know that I try to create as many excuses as I can to avoid assignments that I don't want to do.
So far, my procratinating has not led to many penalties except for a few days during school where I was extremely tired and could not concentrate. My grades don't seem to be affected at all, I seem to recieve A's even on assignments that are assigned a month before the due date that I choose to complete the last night. I've spent a few nights doing homework straight from getting home from school to 3 AM in the morning.
No matter how many times I send my self consistant emails that say "DON'T PROCRASTINATE," no matter how many times I tell myself I won't next time, no matter how many times I stay up working on procrastinated assignments, no matter what I try, I continue. I don't want this bad habit to last the rest of my life.
One thing that I haven't done is pray consistintly about it. I do sometimes, mostly while procrastinating, but not consistantly. I believe that this can be the solution. I won't provide a back-up solution for myself, because I don't believe I'll need one. God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.
†God Bless†
Bria
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Siblings
At WOW JAM, at total of 558 people got saved in three days! Isn't that just amazing! It was so great.
Just tonight I realized something that I had ignored for a while. I just recently finished "The Fred Factor" by Mark Sanborn. It was a good book, though in some ways it didn't apply to me because of how I don't yet have a job and am just now starting high school. It talked about doing the extrordinary in every aspect of life and going above and beyond the call of duty. I've also been doing my daily Bible reading in the morning instead of in the middle or at the end of the day. In some ways, just changing the time that I read has seemed to cause my days to go by more smoothly and with less arguements. Maybe it's because I can remember things from the morning better than I can from the previous night.
But that is not what I meant to focus this post on. Today, I decided to conduct a "experiment" on the reaction of my sister (the middle child, a little more than 2 years younger than I am). You see, she has appeared to have analyzed "do to others what you would have them do to you" into "If my sister does something mean to me, I have the right to do the same thing mean back to her." I decided to see if she analyzed it to mean "if my sister does something nice to me, I am in debt to that sister and must therefore do something even nicer to her." I did a few somewhat new acts of kindness towards her, and guess what happened? She treated me very nicely for the rest of the day instead of appearing angry whenever she saw me.
I have decided to try to apply the "being nice with acts of kindness" feature in every way I can. Maybe then people will respond with kindness, and my life will be even more full of joy than it already is. I wonder what the world would be like if people were just always nice to other people. It would certainly be a much better place. God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.
†God Bless†
Bria
Just tonight I realized something that I had ignored for a while. I just recently finished "The Fred Factor" by Mark Sanborn. It was a good book, though in some ways it didn't apply to me because of how I don't yet have a job and am just now starting high school. It talked about doing the extrordinary in every aspect of life and going above and beyond the call of duty. I've also been doing my daily Bible reading in the morning instead of in the middle or at the end of the day. In some ways, just changing the time that I read has seemed to cause my days to go by more smoothly and with less arguements. Maybe it's because I can remember things from the morning better than I can from the previous night.
But that is not what I meant to focus this post on. Today, I decided to conduct a "experiment" on the reaction of my sister (the middle child, a little more than 2 years younger than I am). You see, she has appeared to have analyzed "do to others what you would have them do to you" into "If my sister does something mean to me, I have the right to do the same thing mean back to her." I decided to see if she analyzed it to mean "if my sister does something nice to me, I am in debt to that sister and must therefore do something even nicer to her." I did a few somewhat new acts of kindness towards her, and guess what happened? She treated me very nicely for the rest of the day instead of appearing angry whenever she saw me.
I have decided to try to apply the "being nice with acts of kindness" feature in every way I can. Maybe then people will respond with kindness, and my life will be even more full of joy than it already is. I wonder what the world would be like if people were just always nice to other people. It would certainly be a much better place. God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.
†God Bless†
Bria
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