Kill or be Killed

I once said of an unhealthy habit, “I’ll change but not today.” I later realized that’s the perfect recipe for failures. ­– Yusuf Leinge

I have my share of crazy unhealthy habits. These are those things that I know I must change if I would make the impact I am envisioning. Unfortunately, I’ve also had the habit of pushing the change I need to make in these areas for another time.

You probably understand what I am talking about. That little thing you don’t talk about – “After all,” you say to yourself, “it is little and rarely affects another person.” Then why not change it? You have identified that it has the power of stopping you so why not stop it before it stops you?

Maybe it is because such habits kill slowly and softly. Just tiny drops once in a while from a drum filled with water wouldn’t get it empty – or would it? Individual drops make no difference but what about all the drops put together? Note that some of the most effective killers are silent killers.

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If you have identified an unhealthy habit stop it now. Not next year. Not next month. Not next week. Not later today. All these lie in your future and the only time you really have is this moment here and now. No unhealthy habit is small. Remember to, “Catch the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, because your vines have tender grapes.”

When you train yourself to kill an unhealthy habit now, you would be indirectly training and increasing your capacity to identify quickly and solve monster problems before they consume you or your efforts.