I work really hard to control my eating with good days and bad. I exercise all the self-control I can muster to speak only words that edify and give grace to those who hear. I struggle big time with not allowing reading, listening to, and watching the news, and current event experts eat up a bunch of my time, it is so addictive. Speaking of addictive, it is so easy to let NFL and NBA games and all the Sports Talk stations eat up huge amounts of time, and then justify it under the guise of relaxing and recovering from the stresses in life. I set goals and set stopwatches with alarms, and establish consequences and rewards for success and failure. And then the real challenge is taking every thought captive so that all that I think about is pure, right, true, and honorable. Every morning I make commitments to the Lord to exercise self-control in every area of my life and I pray and ask God to give me the strength to keep my commitments. I sincerely hunger and thirst for righteousness, I press on toward the goal of becoming like Jesus in every area of my life and character, I examine my life and my motives every night and confess all known sins and bad attitudes to the Lord.

I am growing in self-control in all these areas, but it is so stinking slow! If I live to be a thousand years old I may be able to say that I have finally acquired the character trait of self-control, maybe! Oh well, maybe it will get easier when I get older 😂🤣