We are not and will not become complacent, lazy, or ignorant. No Idleness
To pick up off the hard work video from episode 5. The one thing I never want to model for my boys is idleness. Being Lazy or complacent. Because I don’t want my boys to grow up to be sloths. TO be complacent or even ignorant.
There’s a lot to be said about idleness. Doing nothing. It opens up a lot of opportunity for stupid. Stupid doesn’t find busy hardworking people very often. Stupid finds lazy people with nothing to do.
Some people dream of the day they can be slothful (retire and do nothing). I dread the day when I am limited to the couch watching the news. If the peak excitement of the day is when you get up from the couch and move to the computer, you are living a pointless existence.
I’m nostalgic, even if I had no business ambitions, I would still want to be on a farm cutting wood, planting, harvesting, feeding animals, etc. I just have to have some sort of motivation for the next day to come around. I need to have reasons to wake up and goals to accomplish. In my life, even in so-called retirement, I will always be working. Waking up with a purpose to the day and accomplishing or at least working towards goals. Otherwise, we are just waiting for death. And I feel like death comes earlier for lazy folk. No study to back that up though.
I don’t want my boys to ever be lazy or inactive. In fact, in our family trust if you don’t work you don’t get the benefits of the trust. We are certainly not going to foster a generation that lounges around all day and parties all night. It’s not good for them and it certainly does not honor the family or much less, God.
I can’t imagine there’s any woman out there that lists turn on’s as guys who leave idents on couches.
Same goes for you girls. Lump on log is not our idea of attractive.
Russell’s take vacations and we enjoy beautiful scenery and nature. We are not machines that work 24-7 and think relaxation and playtime is for losers. In fact, I encourage our family to take more vacations and get disconnected from the world more often than most people because we work so hard. I don’t want my boys to work themselves into an early grave or abandon their families. I know for a fact with the advancements in the world I work way harder and faster than my grandparents ever did. We accomplish so much, and we are connected to our world like never before that we really do need to purposefully disconnect and spend time enjoying the world and our families. Truthfully, Russell’s have to get out of Wi-Fi access, abandon our phones, and fall off the grid to truly have relaxation. If not, work will find us. And that is getting harder and harder for me every year.
But we always have work in our lives. Whether we are building a brand new company or dedicating ourselves to the church or helping a nonprofit. Our days have structure and our minds work creatively and thoughtfully throughout our days. We accomplish goals and reap the positive feelings and rewards from accomplishment. It helps us become better people. Work is simply good for the soul. Obviously, movement is good for the body and using your brain will keep your mind sharp. And the opposite of all that is idleness. Laziness. Complacency.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
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