Baby Steps

Some advice my husband, Kyle, and I were given before we got married, that has become one of our many mantras is:


"What you do today, you do tomorrow. What you don't do today, you won't do tomorrow."


Its almost silly because it's such a simple statement. But it's true! What is so magical about tomorrow?? Why not start today on what you want out of yourself and this life? Now, if your goal is to run a marathon, you need to start jogging a little today. But you won't be ready to run that marathon for a while. If you want to lose weight, there aren't really any short cuts if you want it to last. It takes making good decisions today, and deciding to do that the next day, and the next day...

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This principle works for pretty much every goal I can think of. Even small steps in the right direction eventually get you there! And by the way, everyone gets off course a bit at some point, even with the best intentions. But fail fast! Move on and try, try again.

Author Mark Batterson says it this way, "Like a parent that celebrates a baby's first step, our heavenly Father rejoices when we take the smallest steps in the right direction. And those small steps become giant leaps in God's kingdom. If we do little things, God will do the big things. But we have to do the little things like they are big things."

So what is it that you want to do today?

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