“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”

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. 79). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

What is it you need to start doing today that will change where you are headed? We may say I don’t like a specific occurrence in our life but we don’t do anything different. We stay in our room and wish and wish and wish and even pray but do nothing different and wonder why it doesn’t happen.

Now for the most part we know at least one thing that we could start doing to make the difference to change the direction. We know but we just don’t want to start doing it.

John speaks to the need when he says, “When you make the right choices – however small – and do it consistently over time, it can make a huge difference in your life.”

I have been slipping back into doing two things that I know I can’t do to stay healthy and to lose weight. I had found that walking and not eating anything with wheat in it have made a major difference in how I feel and what I weigh. Well the Urth Caffe has just opened up across the street from where we live and they have the best “healthy” muffins and I usually have one every day. Before I started writing this I had a Pumpkin Muffin. I am now writing this down the street. I have made the commitment to stop doing that.

We live in downtown Pasadena, California. For the most part I can walk to everything I need but I have been getting out of my walking and I have been driving. Last weekend we changed that potential. We sold our second car to my son and daughter-in-law who really needed it. I now walk everywhere even to the train that I can take to South Pasadena when I need to take care of my granddaughter.

Some changes needed to be made daily for me to change the direction I was headed in. I really want to be healthy that’s why I have made these changes.

So what daily change can you start doing today to change your life?

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