Taking time to renew your mind daily takes discipline. It's easy to be busy in this day and age and to be distracted with technology and all your 'to do's' on your lists of activity and plans and demands.
As you may know from my blog, I love to travel and try new adventures. This photo you see attached to this blog post is a pic I took a couple years ago when visiting my family in Washington State for a late Christmas and Happy New Year family reunion. We rented a farm house on Whidbey Island and we all packed into this enchanting old estate. I woke up the first morning and looked out my upstairs window and this was my first view that morning. I still can't believe it's a real image. I did not use a filter on this either. This photo literally everything is "quiet", and still. The grass is frozen over by the frost created by the 23 degrees we had that morning. The bushes are frozen and can't move, there is no wind, and the colors all compliment each other to make this gorgeous view.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I look at this picture now is 'BE STILL'. I think we need to practice and make a habit of being quiet and still in our daily lives. Just like eating healthy takes developing a new habit or stopping an addiction to eating or drinking too much wine or trying to stop going online to check facebook is a habit that was created by doing it over and over, so we also need to learn to practice the new habit of stillness.
Life Coaching Tip for you today :
1. Today wherever you are, find a window and stand there looking out at whatever is there, and stare out that view for at least 3-5 min. After you do this, take deep breaths in through your nose and exhale out through your month 3 times. Enjoy the peace of the moment and remember to do this as a new habit daily.
Verse of the day: Psalm 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God"
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