Live your live with purpose and make every action intentional. Don’t let life just happen to you. You get to choose the life you live by the actions you take on a daily basis.
How can you improve your health – physically, intellectually, spiritually, financially, relationally, or emotionally? If you’ve mostly optimized your life and can’t (or aren’t willing) to make drastic changes, can you do something to incrementally change your life for the better? Why do you do things a certain way? Do you need to do it that way or can it be done better, without spending an inordinate amount of time or effort? Do you need to be doing that task at all?
If you don’t take time to regularly reflect on your life and your actions, it’s easy to let things drift away. Then, when you start paying attention again, you find that you’re way off course. Somehow, you’ve gained 50 lbs., haven’t read a book for pleasure in years, don’t know a single person from your church, are not even close to being on track for retirement, and haven’t seen friends/family who are (or were) important to you. It’s easy to blow something off once or twice. You think, I’ll do that next time. But if you’re not careful, if you’re not intentional, you may find yourself a year down the road in poor health in one or more of the areas listed above.
Make sure that you’re doing what is right, always. Don’t try to take short cuts. If you take some time off, make sure that you start back up as soon as possible. Because the more time you take off, the harder it will be to come back. Be intentional with your actions and you’ll be amazed at the progress you make.