A Better Tomorrow

"God ever works with those who work with will."
Aeschylus

Hello World!

It's another wonderful evening here in Wisconsin, and for the first time since returning from Ohio I haven't had anything to do outside of the house. It's been nice to cook dinner (the first in a long time) and hang out with the roommates. I haven't made any progress on cleaning my room but shhhh... I don't want to ruin tonight!

In other fantastic news I heard back from one of my residency applications and I now will finish the PGY2 season with at least one interview. I am still waiting on 3 other sites but now that the monkey is off my back I feel much better about things overall.

I have decided to commit to a regular updating schedule, in attempts to force myself to write and to retain some sort of consistent readership. I will continue to due Sunday updates from #SCLP twitter devo's and now I promise (cross-my-heart and hope to die) to give a real update/post on Wednesdays. As part of this I sat down and began to think about what to write tonight and came to the realization that I haven't accomplished the point of this blog.

When I started writing I "made it my goal to use this year for growth despite the adversity"- something I don't think that I have done enough of thus far. My entries continue to be reflections and meditations on what faith means and the way it should look... but I haven't put myself out there to become a better person.

Don't get me wrong- I continue to grow. This is the first time in a long time that I have religiously attended church (see... see what I did there?). I have a bible study to go to and I have been spending at least a few moments everyday in the scripture thanks to twitter (Aside: That may be the first time in the history of mankind that the sentence "spending time everyday in the scripture thanks to twitter" has been uttered. Some little part of me is very proud of that.)

So... continued growth.

I am going to post my goals. If you know me- your job is to bug me about this. If you don't know me but you read this blog... its your job to bug me about this. See where I am going? These aren't all going to be religious in nature- but the underlying plan is to make me a better person. Who's with me?

(Chirp, Chirp)

Goal 1:

Eat breakfast everyday- Recently I have been getting up later and later making it hard to get to work on time in the morning. If I had to declare a mortal enemy I am pretty sure it would be my alarm clock (or crocs- but I digress). If I force myself to leave enough time for breakfast before I leave the snooze button becomes tougher to hit. Also, breakfast is good for you and I probably should be eating it anyways.

Goal 2 (and related to goal #1):

No bible, No breakfast. Simple enough. At least my twitter post BEFORE I go to work.

Goal 3:

Starting next week- my room will be clean by the time I write my Wednesday Blog. I will post time stamped pictures as proof if that becomes necessary. Every day I come home from work, look at my room and say "I need to clean this up." Now I have a reason and a deadline.

Readers: Thanks for everything. Leave comments, tell me what you think. Please know that I mean every word of this. Be my accountability bloggers please!

In Him,

Gus

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
Doug Firebaugh