Keep Shaking

We change. Life goes on. New challenges face us.

Quite often when change happens, our lives are shaken up. Our habits change. New thought patterns emerge. We have to work at improving the way we do things.

Like one of those ornaments with snow in them, if you don’t keep shaking them, the snow eventually settles and you are back to where it started.

The weight I have lost is a good example. I now weigh about forty pounds less than I did three months ago. My goal is to lose another ten or twenty, which will bring me to an ideal weight for my age.

Having met my initial goal, I could easily be content with that. Even worse, I could go back to the eating habits that put on the weight in the first place. I know this is totally possible because I have rationalized that I have deserved to have that little bit extra for Christmas. Fortunately, going for workouts at the YMCA more regularly has kept the weight from creeping back.

But taking this weight off, keeping it off and losing a bit more means that I have to change my lifestyle. I must keep on shaking the little globe or I will fall into those comfortable patterns from the past.

This image of having to completely shaking the globe can be applied to other areas of my life. If I keep on doing the same-old, same-old, I am going to get the same old results. Yes, it’s very satisfying having a whole dessert instead of a little taste, but it is also more satisfying feeling better about myself. The choice is mine.

The same goes with relationships. I can continue to do the things that make it blah or I can initiate new ideas, shake it up and watch the snow fly. Again, the temptation is there to stop shaking the globe (old habits are so comfortable) and I can be right back where I started.

So, do you want a better life? Then start shaking what you do and don't give up.