Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 94 of our Trek. Yesterday we completed looking at the trails that would help us to hike with a limp. Anything in our life that is restricting us from moving forward is considered our limp. These restrictions or barriers many times come from bad habits that we have allowed to creep into our lives over time. In order to rid ourselves of bad habits, we must replace them with good habits. Today and tomorrow we will hike the trails of life that will allow us to start forming the good habits that we want to control our lives.
We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. Our lighter work days of last week resulted in an extra heavy backpack of client work this week. This was expected, and we were prepared for the busy trail that we encountered. Life’s trek is much easier to manage when we can prepare in advance.
I actually work better with a set schedule based on the routines and habits that I have established over the years. I enjoy rising early and having my exercise and devotional/meditation time before breakfast, as it sets the tone for the entire day of productivity. Habits are part of everyone’s life. We just need to make sure that they are positive and productive habits.
It is now time to break camp and study the trails of the habit of habit formation. This could be a very rough trail to hike today because we feel that habit formation is very difficult. Fortunately, we have a detailed map for our habit hike. There is a comprehensive path for setting habits in our lives, and if followed, we can form good habits, as we get rid of those that are bad.
We recently had the opportunity to attend a trial where the defendant had shackles on his ankles, and it was very evident that it was difficult, very slow, and painful for him to walk. In the
