Day 9

Today I decide to be wealthy.

Wow, it's been more than a week now.

Yesterday I opened the January Ensign, and read the First Presidency message. The theme was A,B,C.  Attitude, belief, courage.  So I'm working on that now.  And this morning when I read a bit in Alma, I came to this realization, which I posted on Facebook.  (I'll take it down in an hour or so.) 

I finally figure out something. I was reading about faith, repentance and good works, and I was thinking, "Faith, hope and charity..." and it dawned on me: Faith is faith; good works is charity (giving of alms, clothing poor, etc., the pure love of Christ, which is selfless giving and empathy for others), so therefore, hope must be repentance.

I am working on repentance; or rather, I am in the process of repentance, or getting my life on the strait and narrow path of financial responsibility. I just didn't think of this activity as that.  Another thing I'm concerned about it something we learned about in a psychology class, that is that sometimes observing something produces an extra influence on the subject being witnessed.  In psychology class, that's not a good thing.  But this is different, in that daily reporting reinforces the project and can help the project stay on track, so, nine days on the track, and Evans said do it for sixty, so fifty-one days left to see where I'll be. 

I don't think that I'll be doing a paper chain count-down, though it is an amusing idea.

This blog/activity is about financial responsibility, but I know from reading weight-loss stories that other things are affected too.  Got some bills paid--last month's power and garbage bill, this month's water and internet.

Today I decide to be wealthy.