Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
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
What do we wish and hope for that we will never take steps to bring to fruition? It is easy to think I’d like that, and we would, if we didn’t have to do anything to achieve it, but what are the goals we are willing to take the steps to make happen?
Today, I’m giving a speech to a Toastmasters Group that contacted me because I am a writer. For years, I wanted to write, thought about writing, and even occasionally dabbled in writing, but I never created a writing practice that I kept up until October 2000.
My husband brought home an old laptop with floppy discs, and I put that old laptop on the kitchen table and started to write every night after I put the kids to bed. We had a better computer, but I used it for work and went into work mode, not writer mode as I sat behind it. But, that little laptop brought the writer to the fore and the daily practice of writing became a reality.
Whatever we want to do will happen when we change the things we do daily. Exercise only fits into our daily schedule if we find time for it. A walk at lunchtime, before breakfast, or after dinner can fit in a daily walk. If we don’t have a daily schedule it is easy for a day to end without getting much accomplished, but if we have a schedule it is amazing what we can do. We all have the same twenty-four hours, and what we choose to do with them builds our lives.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today matters most. Buddhist Proverb
Sometimes I wonder if those elusive goals sound good. Why do we focus on goals that sound good when we can focus on what we want out of life? Do we think we sound more interesting if we say we’d love to learn another language, write a book, or see the Seven Wonders of the World? Is talking about what we want to do one of the surest ways we won’t do them, because talking feels so good, almost as good as accomplishing something, do we have to keep our ideas to ourselves to fuel our actions?
At the Writer’s Group on Saturday, the workshop was on collaborating with other writers to critique each other’s work. It’s a good idea, it might work for many, but if we share our writing too early I think it might be a mistake. First drafts are not to be shared, and partial first drafts are even worse. Collaborating might be so much fun (just like talking about our work), that we never spend enough time writing.
Spring is in the air when all things seem possible. Is there something we would like to start, or finish? What daily actions can we take to bring something to fruition? What daily improvement can we make? Daily deposits create dividends in our lives.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently. Anthony Robbins
Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year. Jim Rohn
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