Be. Become.

"We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day."  ~ Richard G. Scott

     I was lying on my bed the other day with the very look of indifference written all over my face.  I was skimming through the pages of our most recent Conference issue of the Ensign trying to feel the urge to read something.  I just wasn't feeling it.  Come to think of it, I have not been "feeling it" for a while.  How long has it been, really?  I felt the numbing sensations of cynicism creeping into my mind with every sentence.  Blame it on the adversary, this was just not my day.  The funny thing is, as I forced myself to read one of the articles I came across this line, "We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day."  It stood out to me as I read it and rang true to me at the time but then I was right back to cynicism and indifference. 
     What is interesting to me is that since that day I have thought of this statement MANY times.  I guess that just goes to show that you can get inspiration even when the all odds, and even your own attitude, are against you. 

     What I want to become . . . now there is something to think about!  I used to think about it all of the time when I was young.  I have a pretty good understanding of what I do not want to become.  I see it in moments like walking into church 15 minutes late, running around on a Monday morning trying to find matching socks for the kids, never having toilet paper in any of our bathrooms but my own, forgetting a parent teacher conference, going to bed without prayer of scripture study, getting angry at the kids just for being kids, scraping dinner together out of this and that, and on and on.  What I didn't want to become stares me right in the face and can get me feeling too overwhelmed to deal with thinking about what I actually do want to become.
  For some reason, the idea of  "being" what I want to become consistently made it seem simple. 
  
Take it one day at a time.

So, that is what I intend to do. 

Take it one day at a time.  Keep it simple.  Make small changes every day for that one day.  In time, I hope to become that person that I visualize in my minds eye.

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