Read before jumping

My style of life is do first then read the directions. I do it with everything: assembling furniture, cooking meals, learning (rafting, running, horseback, homeschool), leading youth and a thousand other examples. Let me make myself clear: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT. In fact I wish I was less impulsive, more thoughtful, reasonable..... more like Mr. Johnson. This week has shown me a over and over again that this is an area I need to change. My reasoning for living impulsively previously was I was a afraid of becoming stodgie. I once accepted the consequences of impusivity as worth the skill. Not anymore. I am tempered by life, seasoned like a good skillet. But it doesn't happen over night I'll have my moments but the new me is here to stay.