“If the future looks dull, routine, or confining, you may need to start looking to make changes.”

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 88). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

It is so easy to let your life become that. Someone said that a rut is a grave with the ends knocked out and there is no growth, adventure, excitement or life in a grave.

Is that where you are today? I hope not but I know that the cares and pressures of life have a way of sapping out all hope, all life. But you can do something about that.

I was challenged by John’s thought right before this one where he said, “One of the ways to judge whether you’re growing and in a conducive growth environment is to discern whether you’re looking forward to what you’re doing or looking back at what you’ve done.” Maybe that would be a good place to start. There may have been some great days in your past but the past is past. Set into motion again some of the habits you did in those good days and then change your focus, your attitude and maybe your environment.

Margaret, my wife and I decided this weekend to stay another year in the apartment we are living in. We then started making some changes within the apartment and with those changes came new excitement, new anticipation. So many people make no changes in their life and they wonder why they live dull, routine, confining lives. Just make some change and see what happens.

So what change will you make?

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