To many time I have uttered the words, “if I could just drop a few pounds”.  Sometime I do, sometimes I don’t.  It finally occurred to me that I was living the “HAVE-DO-BE” scenario.  Many of us live our lives wanting a result and agonizing over not achieving our goal.  It is typically because we start from the wrong in.  We say “I want to lose weight”, or “I want to get into shape” or “If I could have a good relationship I would be happy”.  You are living the “Have-Do-Be” approach to life. 

I believe this is what keeps most of us from turning our dreams into our life style.

Be happy and you will have a good relationship.  If you “BE” what it is you want, you will “DO” the things that are needed to “HAVE” the thing you desire.

3 Easy Steps:

• BE - Commit yourself to your goal (healthful living, Be a Runner, Be a Doctor)
• DO – Align your life style with your values. (Eat right, exercise, Give of yourself, study hard.)
• HAVE – Feel better about yourself spiritually, more fulfilled, physically stronger with more energy, more knowledgeable.

Oh by the way, if you are BEING healthy you might just lose the weight you don’t need.

“Lord, make me a channel of thy peace—that where there is hatred, I may bring love—that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness—that where there is discord, I may bring harmony—that where there is error, I may bring truth—that where there is doubt, I may bring faith—that where there is despair, I may bring hope—that where there is shadows, I may bring light—that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.  Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted—to understand, than to be understood—to love, than to be loved.  For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.  It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.  It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.

Amen.”