FaceBook and me.

Tonight I will crawl into my soft tempurpedic bed as I always do. I will lay there for a second and think of what time I need to get up for my final in the morning and then I will grab my phone and set my alarm, yet tonight I will do something different. After setting my alarm I will hit the home button and locate the FaceBook icon in the bottom left corner of my first screen, I will touch it until all of my icons jiggle like someone has turned them all into jell-o, and then I will click the small "x" located above the FaceBook icon. I've debated as to what app I will replace it with, but I don't think I will replace it with anything ... and here's why.

My friend Sean started doing these "Discipline Projects" a couple of months ago and the idea struck me as something I would be interested it. Now I don't know the full extent of Sean's motives, but I figured that this would be a great opportunity for me to find things in my life that aren't fruitful and replace them with things that were. Last month was meat, and this month will be FaceBook.

I've decided that if I don't replace the app on my phone it will be a reminder of what I should be doing. See, I've decided to replace FaceBook and more specifically, the time that it occupies with more physical activity. See, I've gotten out of shape ... and it's unacceptable. And to me FaceBook symbolizes time spent doing nothing productive, so while I don't necessarily have any major qualms with the idea of FaceBook, I just don't like what it symbolizes to me.

FaceBook is a wonderful place to stay in touch with friends of the past and present, and it is a great avenue to share who you are with all of these people in one easy place. I do have some qualms with FaceBooks privacy policies and what they do with my information outside of FaceBook, but as I've said many times in the past ... I have nothing to hide.

So what WILL I be doing for the next month instead of FaceBook? I will be making every attempt to make it to the gym twice a day, I'll be out of school ... so i'll have the time, there really are no excuses. If you want to go with me, let me know ... I could use the support. I'm also going to be climbing Box Springs Mountain at least once a week, yup ... I read that right ... So if you wanna come, just let me know ... I'll try to schedule it around everyone's availability.

My goal is to establish an unbreakable habit of an insatiable desire to be active. I can make a million excuses for why my activity level has diminished over the past couple of years, or I can accept full responsibility for it and just amp it up and not look back, I choose the latter.

That said, I want to make these "Disciple Projects" a regular thing, and I would love for people to join me. You don't have to do the same thing, but we can do these things together, encourage each other, and grow together. Let's make changes for the good.