Self-propulsion: getting up early to work out...

Discipline, conviction and dedication are not my strong suits. Why is that? Oh well.
I guess I will have to practice. I will have to realize that those that do have those virtues must have practiced a lot as children, because I cannot figure out how to train myself during the daily grind to be more disciplined, convicted and dedicated to things that I could "blow off". Perhaps I should determine what can and can't be blown off. Perhaps it has everything to do with my priorities.

How does a person prioritize? Is it the most important things or the more needful things or the things that only you can do or the things that if you don't do it, no one will. For me, as a mother, wife and business partner, it must be all those things. And last on the painfully-obvious-list is, well, me. Which even as I write this sounds trite and stupid. Who cares about me? I certainly shouldn't, it's annoying. So, what if I couched it to myself as you must because no one else CAN?

Alright then, I will be disciplined enough to get out of bed earlier than the children and my husband. I will be convicted enough to push through my morning work out knowing how fantastic I will feel during and after. I will be dedicated enough to my morning workout to not let over-tiredness, stress, weather, not doing the laundry become a deterent to actually accomplishing a goal, a need, a priority to get in shape because I just cannot afford to buy another pair of size 14 pants, period!