Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!

In ancient Greece, there was a wooden ship that Theseus sailed from Crete to Athens. To preserve the ship, when old planks decayed, Athenians would replace them with new wood. Eventually all of the planks had been replaced. So, is it the same ship? Is it a totally different ship?

We are not ships where boards can easily be replaced. What I’m referring to is your habits, your choices, your behaviors, and your reactions to things that happen. 

Do you change them out like decayed boards? 

Do you know when a habit or behavior or reaction is no longer reliable and must be changed out? 

Assuming you become self-aware and do take action, is that still you or do you become new? 

Maybe you have certain boards that decay faster and they need to be changed out more frequently?

What steps do you take to weatherproof those particular boards to reduce the times you have to change them out?

Changing habits is incredibly hard. 80-90% of your approximately 6,000 average thoughts per day are considered repetitive, according to research. Once our story is created and repeated day after day and many times a day, you come to believe what you have reinforced over and over and over. Unfortunately, most of those thoughts are negative (decayed boards), attributed to be a primal survival instinct.

What does any of this mean?

You have the ability to change your boards as fast or as slow as you’d like. Most change very few because it is so difficult. Others continue to maintain their vessel as long as they live for quality and fullness of life.

You don’t have to be completely new in order to be your very best…just keep learning, and adapting to your situation.

Have a blessed weekend!

Eric