More.... Progress

I’ve continued to work hard to maintain the virtues that I’d previously discussed: Self-Preservation, Order and Tolerance. It appears that achieving these goals is becoming easier each day, especially Self-Preservation. I’m losing weight, feeling better, less sluggish and my clothes are looser. I’m excited that I am working to make my life and health better, but I’m ecstatic that I can see the results of it. Getting my life in order is also working to my advantage, although there are a few habits that I have to be conscious of. My level of tolerance has become existent, as I am aware of my reaction to previously ‘intolerable’ situations and people. Yay, Me!

I have begun the work on my Faith walk. I think I am becoming a little more careful in how I opt to worship, more willing to counter what simply IS and ask for references and various origins of certain aspects of Christianity. I find that there are far more religious people that simply accept and conform to what they’re told than those that do not. I know that this is going to be the most challenging of my virtues, because I will have to rely on the perspective of others to gain access and comprehension to various aspects of my faith. Despite the challenges, I’m prepared to do what it takes to have my own two feet to stand on regarding my faith.

The opportunity to work on the desired area of consistency hasn’t presented itself, yet. As a result, I’ve been using the time and occasion to work on less cumbersome situations. For instance, I attempt to stay on task when I’m plagued with sudden urges to stray from activities, responsibilities and duties that I’m doing at that time.

As I work on accepting things and people as they are, I have come to realize how fragile people are. It’s amazing how taking the time and really looking at people and their situations have given me an opportunity to develop a proper understanding of just how blessed I am to have the many advantages that I have in my life (familial support, finances, education, excellent health, to name a few). Acquiring this goal has also given me time to assess the person I am and how my decisions and behaviors affect others. I’m finding that this element of my pursuit to virtuosity is the most humbling of those on my list of virtues.

Working on these virtues have really given me an opportunity to sit down, slow down and simply stop and reflect on the person I am, want to be and was. I’m excited to know that although I’m reinventing an awesome lady, there’s plenty of room to become more amazing. This coming week, I’m planning to work on ‘Honor, Modesty and Honesty’. Of these three, honesty is going to be the doozy, simply because when people describe me, ‘Brutal honesty’ is usually one of the characteristics mentioned, as I tell it like it is. Toning it down, it going to be interesting and definitely a challenge, but we’ll see.