TSS 003: Danger of shortcuts, Back to basics, Behavior change

Build Your Body

It’s easy to overlook how much your small, daily choices matter.

This works both ways:

• One workout won’t make you fit, but consistently showing up — especially when you don’t feel like it — can transform your fitness and physique.
• One missed workout won’t ruin your progress, but making that your norm can slowly chip away at your health.
• One healthy meal won’t burn fat. Eating well for months and years will.
• One unhealthy meal won’t make you overweight. But eating that way over time will leave you wondering why you feel off.

Shortcuts in the smaller things will cut short your success in the bigger things.

Avoiding shortcuts might be the one thing that finally gets you where you want to go.

The bad news? One shortcut can trigger a downward spiral.

The good news? One solid decision — one moment of following through on what you believe in — can change your momentum entirely.

Master Your Mind

You can keep playing the lottery, or you can learn what small, consistent actions will make you rich over time.

• In your finances, you don’t need one lucky investment.
• In your body, you don’t need one perfect challenge or diet.
• In your marriage, you don’t need one big vacation away from the kids.
• In your walk with God, you don’t need one powerful retreat.

Get back to the basics.

You may not feel different next week.

Maybe not even next month.

But stick with it, and by the end of the year — you won’t recognize who you’ve become.

Strengthen Your Spirit

Where are you banging your head against the same wall, hoping something will change?

The Bible says ‘to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness’ – Ephesians 4:22-24

Real transformation comes only when you let go of old ways of thinking and embrace a new identity.

Behavior change is not enough.

Stop asking “What should I do?”

Start asking “Who do I need to become?”

Change your identity — your actions will follow.

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Set the standard,

Dave Paczkowski

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