Lots of thankfulness today. It’s been a crazy, busy year. I’ve had fewer than 7 days off in the past 3 months with many 14 hour days. I know I won’t always be this busy, but right now there are many irons in the fire. I’m thankful that God helped me build the discipline to continue to work out, read the Bible and pray every single day, despite a heavy workload. Those things help keep me balanced and lower my anxiety. They also help me “reboot”’my internal computer. I have been able to take Tessa on 10 Daddy/Daughter dates this year, I teach DDPY classes and I am training for a 100-mile Ultra while essentially working 2 full time jobs.

11 years ago I would have told you there is not enough time to do half what I’m doing today. I’m thankful that I have slowly overcome those excuses, year over year. More important, I realize how much I used to lie to myself every single time I said “I didn’t have time” back in the day. Discipline is freedom. It’s a struggle. I have bad days often, and even bad weeks. I’m frequently tired and fight myself from hitting snooze. I have days where I piddle around trying to get started but once I do, I feel better. Excuses don’t want you to be disciplined. Excuses are the cheap, easy way of achieving short term satisfaction. Excuses are the ultimate roadblock to discipline. Back in the day, “I didn’t have time” unless it was TV, sports, beer, sleeping in on weekends and other nonsense and shenanigans.

Thank you Jesus for teaching my the value of self-honesty.

Go get it.