Comments on: discipline

By: Meriah

Meriah — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:57:40 +0000

I’m inspired! I completely agree. Cheers to fall!

By: debra

debra — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:45:46 +0000

I love this post and it has given me much to think about. My life could benefit from some discipline as well. Summertime is about being lax and enjoying more freedom than usual…it is now time to buckle down and add some structure to my days.

Thank you!

By: Emily Barton

Emily Barton — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:38:01 +0000

Oh, you are so right about summer being the packed, over-crowded month! I love fall, too, as well as winter (winter is such a great excuse to stay indoors and read). Living in farm country, it’s become much more obvious to me that the notion of a “long, lazy summer” is ridiculous. Winter is when the land and, thus, people get to relax.

And you don’t sound protestanty at all, just very wise. (Then again, being a protestant, maybe I just can’t tell?)

By: musingsfromthesofa

musingsfromthesofa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:16:33 +0000

Autumn is my favourite season and I am begging for it to kick in here. We just had another week of horrible hot weather.
And I’m right with you on discipline, or as a friend and I say ‘You have to have rules’. I find that’s what allows you to get more stuff done, and you get to break them occasionally.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:38:57 +0000

dorr, personally I really need to work on upper arm strength and it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while…I will join you!
emily, I will try and write about autumn as though you can experience it without wistfulness!
Yogamum, I am returning to my yoga practice tomorrow, post-haste. I have no idea why we wait…
Litlove, thank you for the kind words. I am looking forward to joining you in an autumn of discipline AND determination.
Kim, lord, how I miss you! I stopped by your blog to comment but really, we MUST finish our novels this fall. We MUST.

By: kimhaasdesign

kimhaasdesign — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:20:21 +0000

Me too! I love the possibilities that fall brings. I love the “structurelessness” of summer but by the time September rolls around I am desperate for some structure once again. I keep focused on the exercise/yoga side of my life but the writing side fell to the wayside. I am working on ways to tap back into it again. Love the phrase that it takes “an odd kind of discipline” to do these things that are so good for us and yet we still resist them. Hey… I should go write about this on my own blog which I have woefully neglected this last month.

By: Litlove

Litlove — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:34:13 +0000

I have had such a slack summer, but not for good reasons like yours of fun and pleasure, but for awful overly emotional ones where I’ve let stress and worry get the better of me. I love the transition into autumn too (and you write about it beautifully) and I’d very much like some of that discipline. My son’s gone back to school today, like yogamum, and I’m hoping to find my space again and to make effort in the right places to use it!

By: yogamum

yogamum — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:52:26 +0000

Yes yes yes! Me too! I have been slacking in all the same areas, but today I did get up and do yoga before heading off to work, and I *do* have a dinner plan for tonight. I also have a rough plan for how to work the writing into the “cracks and crevices.” This is the first week of school for me and the kids so I’m hopeful that we’ll get some discipline going around here!

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:02:45 +0000

First, you made me wistful for the season I won’t get here in LA.

Second, I think you are absolutely right. There is a time for all things, and fall is the time for just the change you describe.

By: Dorothy W.

Dorothy W. — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:20:30 +0000

Well, as a teacher, I’m stuck with the academic calendar, and so it definitely is a good time to think about what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I need some discipline right now too — no more wasting time on the computer (I don’t mean blogging, I mean stupid web surfing), no more eating badly, no more spending too much money. I’d like to lift weights too. I think I’ll join you in the discipline thing!