Discipline Discipline
written at Sunday, June 28, 2009
University is starting in less than a month, started reading a few of the textbooks (which are frighteningly expensive even though they're second hand, I don't know why university textbooks are so expensive goodness me). Anyway it's pretty interesting reading about all these business issues and concepts, finally something practical after a decade of studying something mostly theoretical and hardly relevant unless you're an engineer or chemist...
The commercial law book almost killed me the other night, almost gave up on reading it. The microeconomics book was fun to read so I stuck to that, haven't really touched the other two yet. Hopefully within the next few months I can finally understand what on earth they are talking about in the newspaper business section. Business jargon is always hard to understand.
Anyway, I need to beat myself into discipline and punish my body if it tends to be lazy. Now is not the time to be fooling around, sleeping late and waking up late, I better brush up my priorities and my time.
It starts getting dark during the winter at around 4:30pm, if I for example, wake up and some unearthly hour like 1pm just in time for lunch I basically only have around 3 hours to spend my time doing things. And in that sense overall if you look at it from the big picture, I don't think I am using up the day productively and as well as I should. Laziness get's the better of me, but I think it's time to slap myself out of it.
This verse if proverbs talk about laziness. How fitting, heh...
In Wesley's notes it said, "Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour." Hahaha, true that...
Proverbs 20:13"Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food."
Discipline Discipline
written at Sunday, June 28, 2009
University is starting in less than a month, started reading a few of the textbooks (which are frighteningly expensive even though they're second hand, I don't know why university textbooks are so expensive goodness me). Anyway it's pretty interesting reading about all these business issues and concepts, finally something practical after a decade of studying something mostly theoretical and hardly relevant unless you're an engineer or chemist...
The commercial law book almost killed me the other night, almost gave up on reading it. The microeconomics book was fun to read so I stuck to that, haven't really touched the other two yet. Hopefully within the next few months I can finally understand what on earth they are talking about in the newspaper business section. Business jargon is always hard to understand.
Anyway, I need to beat myself into discipline and punish my body if it tends to be lazy. Now is not the time to be fooling around, sleeping late and waking up late, I better brush up my priorities and my time.
It starts getting dark during the winter at around 4:30pm, if I for example, wake up and some unearthly hour like 1pm just in time for lunch I basically only have around 3 hours to spend my time doing things. And in that sense overall if you look at it from the big picture, I don't think I am using up the day productively and as well as I should. Laziness get's the better of me, but I think it's time to slap myself out of it.
This verse if proverbs talk about laziness. How fitting, heh...
In Wesley's notes it said, "Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour." Hahaha, true that...
Proverbs 20:13"Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food."
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What matters supremely, therefore, is not
in the last analysis, the fact that I know God,
but the larger fact which underlies it --
the fact that He knows me.
J. I. Packer
