Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
If you have good habits, time becomes your ally. All you need is patience. James Clear
We plant our garden and then we have to water, weed, and take care of it. I’ve never planted a huge garden like Mom used to plant. We ate out of it all summer and then all winter from the canned and frozen food, and what would keep in the cold cellar.
I’ve long considered the grocery store my pantry. Anything we want is just a short walk or drive away. How wonderful to live in a country that works and we can count on our supply chain to deliver what we need and want on time and at a reasonable price. We have the opportunity to eat better than at any time in the past.
The question is are we eating better than we’ve ever eaten in the past, or are we just eating more without having to do more? I was listening to Warren Buffet and he was talking about how we want to live in a society that no matter what circumstances we get at birth we can live a life of dignity. What will we do when we don’t have an underdog to fight for? There will always be levels of wealth and if there aren’t we would never be able to strive to build something or create something that creates wealth.
Some of us may think less work and more play would make us happier. My sister has a four-day workweek and loves it. I would love to try a four-day workweek and some weeks that would work well, but some weeks we need that day and even the weekend to keep up.
We need to have a rhythm to our lives and when we do, everything goes well until something interrupts our rhythm. The gym isn’t fitting into my life again yet. What is taking so long? There are so many excuses if we want an excuse. Sitting in the backyard watching my grandson play in his sandbox seems like more of a priority, and following him as he climbs all the way to the top of the stairs. This new little person in my life takes up all the time I let him, and it is wonderful. I get up a little earlier so when he comes to visit me in the morning he doesn’t interfere with my blog, and I can fit a little walk in with my dog before getting to work. We look after him while our daughter goes to the gym, but we aren’t getting there ourselves as often.
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. John C. Maxwell
I keep telling myself on Monday I need to go to the gym. Another Monday comes and goes without getting there. The habit of going to the gym has been broken and I need to develop a new habit. Some habits are hard to break and some are easy, we might tell ourselves we just need a little more discipline but I find a good habit is better than trying to accomplish things with discipline.
When we create a routine we generally do everything in our routine, we don’t think about it, we just do it. The better our routine the better our life will be. We need to be careful about what habits we form in our lives because each habit will help determine our progress. It is too much to expect bad habits to give good results. Some things we do we might not consider habits, but if we continue to do them they become habits, and some of them we might not be happy with, others we might be glad we created.
What if every day we make a slight change to improve our lives in some way? To some degree, our life is what we make it. Is it all up to us, probably not, but probably more than we might want to admit. I have to go my little dog is ready for her walk.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffet
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Octavia Butler
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good. Malcolm Gladwell
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