From my new book Choices. Chapter 3 Self Health.
Be encouraged, you can’t do it wrong. You can’t break it. If you have never done these small steps before then there is plenty of grace for this new journey. So you eat fried chicken the third night into your new journey. Forgive yourself and start fresh tomorrow with your meal choice. No big deal. They say eating an elephant is one small bite at a time. Same with a new life journey and developing new habits. Take it slow. The good book says “Do not grow weary in well doing for in due season you will reap a great harvest”. Stay the course. Take baby steps. You can do it! But, this new journey is a choice. You must choose to commit to this new journey. By commit I mean you need to decide, write it down, sign it and have someone hold you accountable. If I slip I get back up again.
One of my personal goals is to workout 6 days a week. What happens if my wife invites me to a movie on Thursday night and my daughter ask me to baby sit on Friday night and my son needs me to help him work on his house on Saturday? I’m back in the gym Monday after work, every time! Why, I committed to exercise 6 days a week. Why is that so important? My dad had a stroke at 52 and never got to be the grandad he wanted to be. He didn’t play hospital and check baby dolls in and out of our pretend hospital with his grand daughters like I get to do. Or go to Bass Pro-shop with my grand daughters to look at boats. Or take Emma, Ryker, Kyley and Kinsey on a walk with their scooters to the lake. I’m committed to lasting as long as I can and staying in good health as long as I can to be around for my kids, grand kids, wife and those important relationships I’ve developed over the years. I’m on this earth to make a difference so I need to do my part so I can help and contribute whenever I can!