Life is not simple. We face many bumps and turns along the way. The race is real, the battle continuous, and the painful experiences may pierce our hearts. However, our circumstances should not define who we are or how we react. Rather, as believers our behavior in every situation should honor the Lord Jesus, and our identity should always be based on the salvation He has provided for us.
…as one whose wasted a lot of time, energy, and money on the wrong ways to get confidence, I can tell you from personal experience. It’s surely not from achieving the goal, getting the salary, buying the car, or wearing yourself out to win approval and acceptance from others. Been there, done that. It’s exhausting. I’m still working on it.
If I’m to live free, to be confident with healthy self-esteem, and to sincerely love and serve others well, I must be able to forgive myself for my mistakes – even the really ugly ones. Cuz from my experience, I know for sure that when I don’t forgive myself, I feel really down, discouraged, depressed, insecure, unlovable, and worthless. It’s not possible to love others well when I feel like that, or even be a person others want to be around.
This one sentence action plan from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits can provide the clarity you need to achieve your healthy habits.
Welcome to part 5 of our series on food. So far we’ve covered the importance of proper hydration, focusing on the ingredients list vs. the nutrition label on foods, the benefits of tracking what you eat, and last time some help with timing snacks, esp. in the evenings and around your workout schedule. Today I’ll share some ideas about what foods to eat – especially for snacks, as this is where most of us get tripped up on our healthy eating journey.
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