What is the history of YOUR every day?

“The history of every day– What is the history of every day in your case? Look at your habits that constitute it: are they the product of innumerable little cowardices and laziness or of your courage and inventive reason?”
Nietzsche – The Gay Science

Humans are creatures of habit. We do the same things, eat the same foods, hang out with the same people, go to the same places. Sometimes, those habits lead to unwelcome results.

For several years, I drank massive quantities of regular (as opposed to diet) soda every day and night. I worked at a convenience store on the midnight shift and soda was just the thing to keep me WIDE awake – and get me fat as a cow!

I LOVED soda. Still do, in fact.

However, a few years ago I was tipping the scales at nearly 400 pounds and the doctor said I needed to make some changes or I would die. When a doctor delivers such a message, you have two choices – ignore it as hyperbole or change!

I chose the latter.

Replacing bad habits with better ones

I started eating healthier foods, trying to do everything I could to avoid giving up the one thing I most wanted to cling to – soda. I hated the taste of diet soda and couldn’t imagine not drinking the regular stuff.

It wasn’t long before I realized that I had to make a change. And I did.

I made the switch and dropped nearly 50 pounds almost immediately!

Since then, I’ve been hovering at around the same weight, give or take a few pounds.

For the first time in years, I’m starting to lose weight again. 16 pounds since November!

Now I need to implement some more changes in my life.

This is a short list of things I am going to do starting today. Some of them I have been doing with various levels of success since November. However, I have yet to put it down in writing. Doing so will help me follow through on all of them, all the time.

• Limit fast food to once a week (at most)
• Take a multivitamin daily
• Drink less diet soda (I can’t give up just yet)
• Drink more water
• Exercise EVERY day
• Eat veggies and fruit EVERY day.
• Ger MORE sleep.

That last one will be the most difficult as I tend to be constantly working on several projects at once. However, without sleep, everything else is all for naught.

The quote which begins this post is one of my favorites. I don’t use quotes often because all too many of them, many on sites just like this, are full of platitudes. This quote has always struck a chord in me, though. It causes me to think when I’m more inclined to just act.

The history of every day is made up of each of our actions. It’s time to make those actions mean something, to add up to more, so our history is one which we write – not one that is written by our inaction.

So, what is the history of your every day? What new habits would you like to create?

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