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<p>Two days worth of thoughts and events. Resuming my daily workouts has also resulted in resuming a lack of sleep. That can&#8217;t continue for long. Falling asleep in the living room while trying to read a book is not fun. That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t bother to write last night. Imagine falling asleep while trying to write a post. Once upon a time, dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd. Good gravy!</p>
<p>I wrote about routine a few days ago and how I was feeling lost without my normal daily routine in place, yet bored when it&#8217;s in place and working well. Wouldn&#8217;t ya know two days into resuming my daily routine of workout, work, come home, put Jack to bed, whatever else needs to be done I&#8217;m starting to have those &#8220;time to make the donuts&#8221; feelings again. I have an idea&#8230;instead of calling it a routine, what if I called it a daily plan? Routine has a negative connotation to it (thank you human race) &#8211; like it&#8217;s something we&#8217;re stuck in. It runs us instead of the other way around. A plan&#8230;well we make plans. They start with us.</p>
<p>Speaking of plans, I tend to make them in my head and try to follow them, often without success. I&#8217;ve found that a good plan needs to be written down and have a definite goal in mind. Case in point &#8211; I walked into work Tuesday morning and found a couple bags of party mix in the break room. Someone had brought them that morning to share with the staff. The first couple hours went fine, but by 11am I was pouring out a bowl to snack on at my desk. Epic fail! One bowl turned into two, as it often does, then into three.</p>
<p>What went wrong? No rallying cry, no goal, no declaration. I just expected to fall back into my healthy routine and everything would take care of itself. Not exactly. So here&#8217;s my rallying cry, my goal, my declaration to the world. The cleanse has begun anew. By the end of January 2013, I will have returned to my lowest adult weight of 210 pounds through a combination of liver detoxifcation, healthy eating, and <a title="German Volume Training" href="http://www.charlespoliquin.com/ArticlesMultimedia/Articles/Article/441/German_Volume_Training.aspx" target="_blank">German Volume Training</a>. My motto &#8211; eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a pauper, dinner like a beggar.</p>
<p>Part of beginning my <a title="One Year to Glory posts" href="http://www.witnesspath.com/category/one-year-to-glory/" target="_blank">One Year to Glory </a>posts was to catalog my spiritual growth and discernment of God&#8217;s plan for my life. Pieces of the puzzle have been coming together since I attended Christ Renews His Parish in March 2012 but I&#8217;m still traveling the road to understand the full depth of my calling. I posted on Facebook about my recent accumulation of new reading material. From just before our Mexico vacation to now, I&#8217;ve acquired close to 10 new books either through swapping, gifts, or my local library. While I&#8217;m excited about what I&#8217;ll be learning from these great sources of wisdom, I&#8217;m also overwhelmed. Where to start?</p>
<p>Likely I&#8217;m overthinking things, which I&#8217;ve been known to do. In light of that, I&#8217;m letting God decide what I should tackle first and keeping in mind my first reading commitment is to His word. That commitment starts with the daily mass readings and meditations I receive through Christ Renews His Parish and continues onto a wonderful devotional book Jennifer bought me for Christmas entitled <a title="God Calling edited by A.J. Russell" href="http://www.twolisteners.org/" target="_blank">God Calling </a>by A.J. Russell. I recommend it highly.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for the past two days, except the stuff I&#8217;ve already forgotten. I&#8217;ve found that the worst way to remember things that happened is to sit down and start writing. I&#8217;ve also found the best way to remember things that happened is to get up from writing and go do something else. That&#8217;s a lesson in presence and we&#8217;ll save that for another day&#8230;</p>
<p>God bless,</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.witnesspathc.com/about" rel="author">Todd Marsha</a></p>
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