“Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy. “Decide the type of person you want to be. Prove it to yourself with small wins.” What is a small win for you? Each day, each week that lead in the direction you want to go?”– James Clear
Zechariah 4:10 (NLT) “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin”
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy. Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance.
Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks. Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance. This is one of the core reasons why it is so hard to build habits that last. People make a few small changes, fail to see a tangible result, and decide to stop. All big things come from small beginnings.
If you want to predict where you’ll end up in life, all you have to do is follow the curve of tiny gains or losses, and see how your daily choices will compound ten or twenty years down the line.
Your habits are, in fact, one of the most important things about you. Those repeated actions you take over and over, almost mindlessly, reveal your true self over time as much as anything else.
Titus 2:7, (NKJV). “In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works”
Change can take years — before it happens all at once. The important lesson is that if you don’t start it will never happen. Take a decision today to start building on your future today.
Life is a journey, not a once-off event.
Galatians 6:7-10 (NET) “Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, 8 because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. 9 So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.”