Slow Conditioning (Doing everyday)

Time passes by. Because I did not make plan ahead, because I did not stick around any plan, invest or sacrifice time and effort, time passing comes as embarrassing and painful.  What did I do for the last year? Another year of sleepiness detached from reality. 

What if I plan for the future and act to achieve as if it is something obvious?  A little bit of efforts of everyday towards the goal will add meaning to every day and the coming of the future can be exhilarating.  Torah scholars teach that the secret is doing something everyday. 

“For many years I took it upon myself to focus my mind on a single thought-either Torah or prayer- for a specific period of time.  By doing so, I eventually trained myself to be able to concentrate for an hour or even more.” 

Another story is on a famous Greek wrestler who would carry a calf on his shoulders for a few hours a day.  He did so from the time that the calf was born until she was three years old and despite the fact that the calf grew heavier and heavier, he was able to do so. The task looked enormous but he did not wrestle against the big task from the beginning, rather he started when the task was easy to handle and did it on a daily basis. What he had done was fool his animal spirit by conditioning it. 

The lesson is this: Make plan, Watch it every day and Do something every day towards that goal.

“One who comes to purify oneself is assisted, i.e. the degree of Divine assistance is intensified or lessened in proportion to the will, effort and self-sacrifice shown by the person.”  May all in the world merit with the knowledge that only will, effort and sacrifice can convert goals into reality.