New resolve! Highlight important points in ODJ and exercise SELF CONTROL. Haha, I wrote "SELF CONTROL take God's word for it!" on a post-it and pasted it on my wall, hopefully it helps (:

My sis just barged into my room asking for cereal and I shooed her away, that's something I'll need to work on, heh. It's like a reflex action now, she comes into my room, I tell her to go away. But God said to "Do everything without complaining or arguing" (Philippians 2:14), which is obviously really difficult to accomplish, so help me out yeah (:

Also, " If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless" (James 1:26). Not gossiping is, of course, is an extremely challenging task too. In ODJ, Regina Franklin wrote "We can say we're just venting or even claim our arrows are well-deserved, but the fact remains". This totally applies to me, sometimes I justify my words by saying that I'm merely venting or that everyone else is doing it too, but I usually forget that God told us not to talk about people behind their backs. Sigh.

And and and there's "Think clearly and exercise self-control", meaning no more Youtube or being too lazy to go to McDonald's to study or getting distracted by music ): sniff.

Through all this, there's one thing I (we?) have to remember "store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal" (Matthew 6:20). No matter how much it feels like a burden to not complain, argue or gossip, and to exercise self-control, the treasures that God has stored up for us in Heaven are way better than anything we could ever have on Earth (: God bless <3