Funny that I would run into Shelli's comment right now.  I have been sitting here watching a ball game and thinking that I have let things pile up on me and I wondered  if I would just write something defeatist and negative just to get it done and counted.  But reading Shelli's comment gave me a jolt and a positive boast.  Thank you.

Now as to an answer.  I am as challenged as anyone in what you might call human inertia.  I don't consider myself as super motivated, but there are a couple of things that I do that I find that many others don't seem to be able to do.  One is journal writing.  That has become such a part of me that I do it almost automatically even though there are times when it does take extra effort.  My PUSH UPS are a relative new habit that came to me in what I believe was inspiration during the month of December in 2007. I wanted to do something in addition to the exercise routine that I had worked on and improved since 02/02/02 and the idea of doing push ups came to me.  I knew that I needed to enhance the deal with something that I could relate to my effort to progress spiritually.  So I thought long and hard to find prayer-understand the day-be serious-ask for help-utilize all available assets-prayer (again) and sleep (that spells P U S H  U P S)  I decided on the progression of 1 each morning and each night and increasing by 1 each successive month.  So now here I am with tonight being my last of 39 and tomorrow morning I start doing 40. Actually my routine now includes my journal writing which has now evolved to this blog (thanks to Nicholas) reading a chapter or section from the standard works which as of last year is now morning and night.  Of course prayer morning and evening by myself and every evening with Sheila (except when she is away being a mother or grandmother).  ( I also have tried to enhance my personal prayer by doing it out loud.)  I know that I could drop off or forget but I would be letting all of you down if I did that.  If you could say that I 'buy' my motivation I  'buy' it from you and for you (all of you). What any one of us wants cannot be separated from what all of us want.   I can't lay claim to doing everything that I would like to do to be more and better, but there are a few things that I simple have to do in order to be able to tolerate living with myself.  And I hope that my persistence will continue to be answered with blessing.  I wish the same for each of you.