Today is the first Monday after New Years, the day when the holidays are “officially over” and it’s back to the “normal” schedule.
It’s only January 5th and most people’s New Years resolutions have gone down the drain. Why is this?
Because commitment and consistency is a foreign country. You can’t find it on the map. There are only a few people who actually live there as their full-time residence. Many people have visited the LAND OF CONSTANCY but most people can only tolerate it for about a month.
I remember when I first made a commitment to be what I am: all light as God created me. IT WAS HARD!! In the beginning I could only do it for a few minutes a day before veering off into judgment and grievances. I was distracted by every little thing. I couldn’t keep MY WORD to save my life. I was constantly saying I was going to do something, and 5 seconds later I’d be off to something entirely different, forgetting entirely my promises, proclaiming I was going to do that second thing … yes, definitely.
“I’m going to definitely take this all the way to the end.”
LOL.
Even the things I did complete (like high school and college), I did half-hearted and with mediocrity. I have it in me to be an A student, but instead I was lazy and sloppy and was satisfied with C’s and being average.
And basically, that was the story of my life: sliding by in the middle ground, never really giving 100% to anything, always looking for the escape door in case I changed my mind and wanted to quit.
But last year something dramatic changed for me. I decided to make a full-commitment to Jesus. FULLY. 100%. Not half-heartedly. Not 90%. But 100%. I made it my decision to give it all my care, all my focus, all my attention to being the demonstration of Love.
AND MY GOD!
One Hundred Percent is a whole other world. I had no idea until I actually made the commitment and did the work.
Things change drastically, miraculously and spontaneously when you get out of mediocrity. Who knew?
Three days ago someone wrote to me and asked if I would blog about the Course in Miracles workbook lessons again this year, every day in 2009 and that she would pay me, and I said yes. Okay. I will do it.
Then there was a money issue. So I thought: $1 a day, with the option to pay on a monthly basis. It’s totally reasonable.
And here on January 5th and she is already contemplating the time when she will quit. She’s not sure if she wants to do it anymore. She’s not sure if she wants to pay $1/day for 365 days … and she is the reason I started up the lessons again. It’s very funny to me. I’m laughing like crazy. Why is it funny? Because I recognize myself from a past life.
I’ve made the commitment. I said YES. I could quit, but I don’t want to. I want to honor my word. I’m going to do it. All 365 workbook lessons in 2009. WOOHOO! I love it when miracles happen. I love honoring my word. I love being impeccable. I love doing what I say I’m going to do and sticking with it. It’s something brand new for me. I was always “all talk and no action” and it feels to BE ABOUT IT.
I’m learning that it’s really easy to do something when you are totally focused, rather than to do something half-heartedly, or to putt around, contemplate or procrastinate.
For example: I’m the new Innkeeper of a Bed & Breakfast near Madison. My job is to greet guests, make sure they feel at home, cook them breakfast in the morning, clean their room when they leave and keep the house in good condition.
For the first month I was here: IT WAS HARD because I was always puttering. I’d clean a bathroom, and then check email. Then I’d throw in a load of laundry and then cook some lunch or a snack. It would take me all day to clean 2 rooms.
Then I got smart. Set aside one hour and JUST DO IT.
ha!
It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when you put your heart, mind and soul into a project and get rid of distractions. I’m telling you, it’s a whole other world.
Anyways. I’m just blabbering. We are already on Day 5 of the new year, so i would love to hear from you if you plan on completing the workbook lessons in 2009 … because we are already 5 days into it.
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After almost five years of reading the lesson every morning and doing the lesson all day I made the decision not to do that in 2009. So what have I done every morning first thing? That’s right! Lesson 6 today! I can’t stop! Is that the same thing?