Challenge Update: Yes, finally, yes. Glory, Hallelujah. Alarm set, check. Alarm turned on, check. Alarm goes off, check. I get out of bed, check. And I am awake!
Improve Your Life: Try spending five minutes in the morning in quiet meditation. Don’t “empty” your mind; real meditation is putting something good in your mind and pondering it. Trying to empty your mind usually results in all sorts of random and stressful thoughts filling it up. So don’t leave the space. Choose a Bible verse or a positive quotation or word of encouragement and think about it. Five minutes is not very much time out of your day. Try it.
Be Open-Minded: Your mind needs food, and most of the time the food it gets is junk. We are the Information Age. We process incredible amounts of information everyday, much of it useless at best and horrifying at worst. What are you reading, watching, thinking, doing? Are these things doing you any good? If not, why are you feeding on them?