just wait and see

From The Richest Man in Babylon:

“If I set for myself a task,be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? Should I say to myself, ‘For a hundred days as I walk across the bridge into the city, I will pick from the road a pebble and cast it into the stream,’ I would do it. If on the seventh day I passed by without remembering, I would not say to myself, Tomorrow I will cast two pebbles which will do as well.’ Instead, I would retrace my steps and cast the pebble. Nor on the twentieth day would I say to myself, ‘Arkad, this is useless. What does it avail you to cast a pebble every day? Throw in a handful and be done with it.’ No, I would not say that nor do it. When I set a task for myself, I complete it.”

This really stuck with me, I had been meaning to read this book for ages but struggled to get a hold of it; but I am so glad I did. Anyway I feel I only have a few things that I promise to do each day, two of which are:

• Drink a protein smoothie each day to get my required caloric intake.
• Write a post (for this blog) every day.

I’m on track so far with the first but yesterday and the day before I didn’t write a post, I have very good reasons to follow this promise I made but I still let myself down. I can put it down to being too busy and not having the opportunity but that is not good enough.

My definition of Integrity is someone who follows through with what they say they will do, everyone else is a joker. Jokers get nowhere in life.

I have to stop being a joker.

Right now