Yesterday I learned to reflect what sins I have and want to overcome them. There are many of course as I am sinful by nature. But the two that I want to work on, one is procrastination and another is pride.
I have the tendency of thinking sin as in something criminals or something that break the major law and observable such as killing or stealing. But there was also a time where I learnt that sin is anything that is not according God's plan. For example, if we are given many talents to nurture but we don't, it is also considered as sin as we miss the original target or design planned by God.
The sin of procrastination has had a numerous negative impacts to my life. More recently is when I missed the paper expected completion and let my wife waited for 4 hours in the city. Another is when I kept delaying to make a simple appointment that by the time we need it, it's all fully booked.
I have kept it for a long time as it gives me the benefit of excuse. If I don't do something well, I will say to myself that it is not my real performance as I did in last minute. So to overcome procrastination, I need to embrace my limitations and risk of failure.
The second sin is pride. I was inferior and had self-pity as I don't see the person I can be proud of. Now that I can start thinking clearly, I swing to the other extremes. I was easily dominated by others but now I have the tendency to dominate a conversation as if I am always right.
It is not easy to define measurable and actionable follow up for those two. Perhaps it is easier to define for procrastination as the tips such as keep starting for at least 15 minutes and limiting additional to do list can be applied. But for pride, I think what I can do is to follow up on my insurance agent suggestion that we need to take others' perspective first before giving my perspective - so it's take and give when it comes to perspective.
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