This BlogPost is Part 2 in a series about our Daily Choices.  If you have not already done so, I suggest that you read the first blogpost, Daily Choices Matter, before continuing.

If you want to change your life, change your day!
Cathy Weymouth 

I have been desiring to change something about my life for a couple of years now.  I used to worship at home on a regular basis, often at my piano or along with a worship cd.  I have completely lost this and have been wanting to regain it, although it has felt like a struggle and challenge.  I have even been taking voice lessons, hoping that this will force me to sit down and practice, adding this time of singing and worship into my life.  The pressure of lessons didn’t even help.  Me, a piano teacher, who knows the value of daily practice, couldn’t get myself to do it.  This is not good!

In our Tune the Temple class last week, I laid out a challenge to my ladies to develop a new habit of eating according to body hunger signals for 21 Days.  Several have taken up the challenge, which I pray will cause the behavior to continue well beyond the three weeks.  I chose to challenge myself as well – with 21 Days of sitting at my piano for worship.  I made my requirement small so I can feel successful in my small efforts! … Sit at the piano and worship one song daily.  Then I used the chart* I created for the class and began tracking my progress daily.  This has helped me.  The idea of doing a behavior consistently for 21 Days and tracking the progress has me actually DOING it! I am reporting it – so far, I have 6 days of worship in a row and some days I even sang more than one song!  (Could you pray for me that I will continue this pattern?!)

If you want to change your life, change your day!  That’s The Daily Difference.   The big changes come with consistently embracing something daily and over time that something results in big changes – resulting in an improved life!  The word consistency is defined as adherence to the same behavior, with steadfastness and uniformity as descriptive synonyms (1).

Consistently embracing unhealthy choices forges habits that are hard to break. Many people have engrained not-so-healthy bad habits running and ruining their life.  But this can be changed!  You can make better choices – by consistently adopting a healthy behavior, one at a time, over a series of 21 or more days.  *If you would like a copy of the 21 Day Challenge Chart I created,  send me a request on the Contact page of the website.

Here is my suggestion – choose one healthy choice to adopt and add to your life each month. See suggestions below.  Then keep that habit going while you add another healthy habit the next month, one month at a time.  You will be in a different place in a year!

Choices Chart

To read Part 3 of this Series, go to Practice Leads to Lifestyle Change.

Tune the Temple is a weight loss strategy for becoming your natural weight by changing your relationship with food.  Ditch dieting and begin to become normal again.  And see the results of your daily choices over time!

1. Dictionary.com
2. Health Benefits of Water: How 8 Glasses a Day Keeps the Fat Away

Tags: 21 Days, Choices, Christian, Goals, Habits, New Habit, New Year's Resolution, Self-Care

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