This is a difficult lesson for me to put together. The lesson asked me to look back and find things that I know I should change about myself and my behavior and I can honestly make a very long list. But that’s because I’m very negative about myself and that’s a huge thing I need to work on.

But other things that I’ve made note of are things that Master has asked me to work on before and I haven’t taken initiative to correct them. The things I have chosen to start working on now are brushing my teeth regularly and having the dishes cleared from the counters/sink and in the dishwasher every night before I went to bed.

So, I’m now brushing my teeth every day before bed. I realize that for some of you that’s just gross, but oral hygiene was never encouraged growing up so.. I’m having to learn it now. Master promises that doing this will lead to more kissing (yeah I know it sounds horrid that my breath is that bad, but it is and I’m admitting it).

Also, and this one is harder, the dishes will be in the dishwasher before going to bed. And the process goes like this:

1. Night one, if I’m late, the number of minutes is recorded.
2. Night two I have to go to bed those minutes earlier. If the dishes aren’t done by that new bedtime then I will get punishment swats for the previous night’s number plus the amount of time it takes me to do the dishes that second night.
3. Night three ? I dunno yet.

The next exercise for this lesson is to list 5 people I respect and look up to because of their self discipline. I’ve been thinking about this for 3 days and I can’t think of anything I look up to because of their self discipline. This one is going to take awhile. I’ll see about coming back to it before I move on to the next lesson.

–lunaKM