The one key trait that separates success from failure is consistency. Poor habits are just as powerful as good habits. Habits grow out of thinking the same thoughts, doing the same thing each day, repeating the same words each day. The key to breaking a poor habit is to replace it with a new more empowering habit through action. Small disciplines over time good or bad create results, some create results that we want and some create results that we do not want in or life. I personally have had to take a long hard look at the results I have created in my life and I realize that I need to make a change in my health. The last several years have been very challenging for me do to the fact that my wife’s health has deteriorated and she needs me to care for her. My business which is appraising real estate has been challenging do to the current real estate market and some changes in the recent laws by congress. I stepped on the scale the other day and I realized that the time is now for me to make a change in my life and to release or lose some weight. I have gained a lot weight over the past several years by eating poorly, not getting the right nutrition and a lack of exercise . Over the past year I have started the habit of reading a book or two a month. The new habit of reading has started to change my thought process on many other areas of my life. Stepping on the scale was a wakeup call for me, I have a wonderful wife who needs my help on a daily basis and two wonderful children, so I have decided that my health needs to be a major priority in my life. I was looking at my old year book and I was involved with sports for many years and I was looking at what great shape I was in my teens and twenties. I ran cross country in high school.  I am coming up on my 54 birthday and the time is now to take control of my life, my health and to get back in the game. I ran across this poem in a book I have been reading.

Running Cross Country 0012 218x300 The Power of Habit

 

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you like to win, but you think you can’t,
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll loss you’ve lost ,
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellows will,
It’s all in the state of Mind.

If you think you are out classed, you are
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks He can.

I will start my new journey to a healthy life by making better and healtier choices each day and to starting my daily exercise program. I will keep you posted on my results over the next 90 days. A great book to read is the Slight Edge