Good Morning Food for Thought
June 27, 2008
Quote of the Day
"It's like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
~Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
Everything we have mastered, we have learned one step at the time. We weren't born knowing how to do very much of anything. A few basic, instinctual actions, that was about it. Look at us now and what we've accomplished.
Changing our bad habits into healthy, good habits isn't any different. Very few, if any of us can do it over night. It takes practice, just like everything else we have learned over the years. Patience with ourselves is helpful. Understanding that it took us years to develop the habits we have and accept that it is going to take time to change them is important.
Persevering one step, one habit at the time will get us there. It's not a race, it's a new way of life, and we have the rest of our lives to perfect it. The more diligent we are, the sooner we'll get it right. As with most roads, this one will have it's share of bends and bumps, but see them as just that, bends and bumps, not cliffs that you've fallen over.
The journey never ends, but the fog will clear and the road will become much smoother and easier to travel.
Quote of the Day
"It's like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
~Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
Everything we have mastered, we have learned one step at the time. We weren't born knowing how to do very much of anything. A few basic, instinctual actions, that was about it. Look at us now and what we've accomplished.
Changing our bad habits into healthy, good habits isn't any different. Very few, if any of us can do it over night. It takes practice, just like everything else we have learned over the years. Patience with ourselves is helpful. Understanding that it took us years to develop the habits we have and accept that it is going to take time to change them is important.
Persevering one step, one habit at the time will get us there. It's not a race, it's a new way of life, and we have the rest of our lives to perfect it. The more diligent we are, the sooner we'll get it right. As with most roads, this one will have it's share of bends and bumps, but see them as just that, bends and bumps, not cliffs that you've fallen over.
The journey never ends, but the fog will clear and the road will become much smoother and easier to travel.
