Monday is toddler day.

It also happens to be bike riding day.

She sees me in my cycling gear and understands that I’m leaving for a couple of hours.

So, she tries to delay me leaving.

I’m the one who should pick her up.

I’m the one who should read her a page or two from multiple books.

And when she realises that she didn’t delay me leaving, she complains, loudly, apparently.

The others do their best to distract her so I can get out the door, but it’s not easy.

She’ll get used to it.

It’s the same as every other pattern in our lives.

If you can’t change it, you have to become accustomed to them.

That’s where most people live their lives.

Letting someone else determine the pattern that they live by.

It might be an ideology.

It might be a religion.

It might be a job.

It might be family.

Whatever it is, if it’s not helping you live a more productive and peaceful life it’s probably not good for you.

And you can change almost every pattern in your life.

Sometimes you can even influence other people to alter their behaviour by the way you change the patterns you live by.

You don’t have to tell them, you only have to change yourself.

You are the only person who can change you, and you have to do it deliberately at first.

Then it will be come a habit.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Something that helped me with the change from who I was to who I wanted to be is laid out in this book: https://go.wm-tips.com/atomic.

I didn’t have the book then, but I used most the principles to achieve my then goals.

I still live them today.