I have been involved in my sister-accountiblity group for 7 months now and I am so blessed by each of them and their commetment to eachother and encouagment to me on this journey. This January we started to read the book "Give God a Year, Change Your Life Forever" It is from the director of First Place 4 Health, Carole Lewis. It has bee so encouraging and challenging, just what our group needed to start out this past month.
One of the things that has stuck in my head and has pushed me forward is a saying that she uses. Do the next right thing. When I just want to eat the cookies or way more than I need, do the next right thing. When I want to leave my house a disaster, do the next right thing. When I want to sit around instead of exercising, do the next right thing.
You see life can be overwhelming, the amount of weight I have to loose is overwhelming. But when I look at those moments and just do that next right thing I am one step closer to my goals and to experiencing freedom. It takes doing the next right thing over and over and then new habits are formed. And somehow life is not as overwhelming anymore.
So I am off to do the next right thing, clean the bathroom, ugg,
I LOVE that little phrase!!! In fact, I just started a Facebook "group" page for my Fp4H group and it is called, you guessed it--The Next Right Thing!!
ReplyDeleteReally keeps things in perspective!