Erosion

Erosion… always thought of in a bad way.

Its power is that it goes unnoticed until it’s too late. We had a bridge in Minneapolis a few years ago collapse, not because it was built wrong… but because of erosion.

It’s subtle, its consistent and it does not track itself by emotions or feelings or circumstances… it will produce results.

but what if erosion had a positive side. So you are broke and you don’t have any money for retirement… 

Try eroding your debt and your lack by using the same techniques as erosion. 

Subtle… every week take out your phone and buy $10 of Crypto and $10 of a stock and put $10 in a savings account to later drop into a CD - You don’t talk about it, you just quietly do it. 

Consistent… you do it every week, you put it on your calendar, you put up a sticky note, you have someone ask you weekly how you are doing.

Free of emotions or circumstances… if you don’t have the money then cut something out to have the money… if there is nothing to cut out get an extra part time job to put the money into your erosion project… regardless it will happen no matter what outside forces tell you.

It’s proven over time. I invested a tiny sum of money into crypto… its now sitting at around $130k  I never even looked at it until a few years later… wow. 

Every month I put a set amount into my stock portfolio… it does not matter how my stocks go… up or down. I picked relatively safe long term stocks… and yes I have an investor to help me. 

 

1 These. 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Phil. 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Here is the danger in neglecting the process… it does not start as habitual. One of my favorite trainers Just Transgrud of JT strength and conditioning - follow him on twitter and instagram…

he had a great point today on his post… he said its not that Thanksgiving can ruin your diet or even missing a day of training will mess you up… he said the problem is you start to lie to yourself… you say, well Im going to eat like a pig on Thursday so its not a big deal if break my diet today, and tomorrow and the day after… Im going to miss my work out Thursday due to TG, so I will take Wednesday off as well and friday… and then Monday morning rolls around and you find it harder and harder to do the right thing… Erosion. 

it works on both ends.

Make small deposits today for God. Prayer, scripture, worship, sharing a kind word… and then do it every day.

My biggest influence when it came to training was a man by the name of Mike Morgan… huge dude. When I told him why I missed a training day, he looked at me - almost glaring and said “kid if one excuse will work, any excuse will work.”  I can say I have just about never missed a day since then… truth! 

And so today… never miss a day with God… let your bad habits erode as you set in new habits and watch them erode even more your other bad habits - I hope you didn’t miss that.