40 Days - Day 31 - Growing out of laziness

Parents, two great qualities to build into your children are diligence and initiative. Diligence is that quality that motivates you to give your best effort in whatever you're trying to accomplish. Whether it's your spiritual growth, school, sports, friendship, or service learning to give your best effort will cause you to stand out, because so few people do it. Initiative is that quality that doesn't wait to be asked to do something needed, it actually anticipates the need. Wow! When you meet people like this, they stand out!

Students, employees, sales people, parents, and friends - Don't do the minimum required, look for what is needed to accomplish the goal with excellence.

Early in my life, I struggled with laziness. I would always choose to do what I wanted to do than to do what I was responsible to accomplish. As a result, I would wait until the last minute and usually do a job that did not reflect the gifts and abilities that God had given me.

Laziness is hard to overcome. First, you have to admit that you are lazy. Few of us are lazy in every area of life, so look specifically at the areas of your life where you are lazy. See it as sin and confess it to God as such. Begin to picture what your life would look like if you were diligent in that particular area. Pray for a spirit of diligence. You will find over time, you can develop the habit of diligence which will soon lead to the character quality of diligence!