December 4, 2012

Today was a bit crazy, with more paperwork for the house purchase to fill out, home owners insurance quotes to get squared away -- there's still some stuff to be done there, but let me just say that it appears we'll be leaving State Farm and going with Farmers. The former gave us a quote of around $1100 per year, while the latter gave us a quote with similar coverage for just $850. And then there were the two boys; Corbin did well today for the most part, after a rather restless night last night, but Caleb couldn't seem to find a nap in him. He's still feeling congested, so that didn't help, but it meant that getting much done today was difficult.

I finally got to my reading late in the day once again, and I finished off the book of Jacob. I always love reading Jacob chapter 5; it's one of those portions of the Book of Mormon that testifies to me of the divinity of the work, as there is no way such a beautiful and true allegory could have been written save it were inspired by God -- certainly for Joseph Smith as a 25-year-old man with little education to have fabricated the allegory which matches well with how olive trees are actually cultivated is far fetched. So with that, here's my quote:

Jacob 6: 12: "O be wise; what can I say more?" (The Book of Mormon, pp. 133)
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: "The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do.  They don't like doing them eihter necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." (Pp. 148-149: Putting First Things First, quoting E. M. Gray "The Common Denominator of Success")

Daily Check Up:
1) Scripture study: Yes (15 pages per day through the end of the year: Jacob 3-7, pp. 122-135)
2) Morning and evening prayers: Yes
3) 15+ minutes good book: Yes (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, chapter 5, pp. 145-156)
4) 15 minutes of parenting/relationships/children book: No
5) Exercise for 30 minutes or more: No
6) One doTERRA blog post: Yes
7) Use doTERRA oils for something: Yes
8) doTERRA Leadership and Mentor calls (Mon-Fri): Yes
9) Talk to two people about doTERRA: On
10) 15 minutes organizing office area: No
11) Solid 8 hours (M-F) working at my job: Mostly
12) Early to bed, early to rise: No (1:30AM to 8:30AM)
13) One AnandTech pipeline or article: No, but edited/posted SFF Buyer's Guide