Day 325- You can't get to new places by the old ways

📖Daily Reading

 Hebrews 8

🎥 Video  

Join me on my morning walk as we rise and shine together by walking through the Bible daily and learn a practical applicable coaching nugget from the ultimate life coach - our creator (whatever that means to you). No judgement zone here, all are welcome, we are all on a spiritual journey because we are after all spiritual beings having a human experience.

 

📝 Reflection 

Hebrews 8: 13

'When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.'

 

Every morning I walk and do a chat on video before doing this writing. Every day now for 325 days. It started out as just a way to get me off of the coach earlier in the morning. I have a great morning routine. So great and so enjoyable that I was lingering many days and losing track of time and you know how that goes… So the words rise and shine came to me about this time last year in 2021 as a theme for my year of 2022. 

I was committed to getting up and moving, so I set an outside walk goal of seeing the sunrise everyday. I also decided to start documenting it. I decided also that while I was out documenting it that it might be fun to bring people along with me on my walks. This would help me hone my coaching skills and writing skills. I never even knew I was a writer. But I wanted something to talk about other than just my own ideas. So since part of my existing morning routine was already doing a devotion, I decided to up my ‘game’ and read the Bible cover to cover. I had never done that before. I was able to ‘package’ and stack several changes and new ways into one routine. 

Also, because I am wired to serve others, I knew that if I committed myself to showing up for others that it would hold me accountable. It also gave me the opportunity to read the Bible through the lens of all the new things I had gone back to school for with coaching and pyschology and see how it aligned with scripture. BTW, it does 100%. I am telling you all of this just to use it as a real life personal example. 

I was in a loop of trying to make a change with my schedule by doing the same thing over and over again and getting frustrated and disappointed in myself. So I decided to try a new way and I worked with what I know about myself to help and support myself in the process. This helped what I was doing shift to being just behavior focused to being intrinsically motivated. When we are intrinsically motivated we may need rules and guidelines to get us going just like training wheels on a bike, but then we should move to a point where they are obsolete. 

When the new way makes it’s way to you heart vs. just your head, you want to do the new thing and go in the new way. This is what this chapter is talking about. The old ways of the law of Moses was just a shadow. It wasn’t complete or getting us where we needed to go. Because it was only about trying hard and keep track of behavior. It didn’t allow room for our humanness. It was a rinse and repeat cycle of ‘try harder’, ‘fail’, feel bad because you are bad, sacrifice and get back to trying harder.

The new way as outlined in vs. 10-11: ‘But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord : I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord .’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already. ‘

We become intrinsically motivated by love when love enters our heart and we accept that we are loved, valued, worthy, enough and we have been all along. Trying harder is just hard. Lets try new, different and ‘hearter’. As new neural pathways are built by the new ways it moves from our head/mind to our heart via the body through walking out the new way in faith. You can’t just in your mind and with your mouth confess faith. You must actively live it out through action. 

As I was literally on a path walking this morning I imagined myself seeing a new path off to the side quite a distance away. This new path led to a new place where there were a lot of people gathered that looked like they were having an amazing time. In order to get there it makes sense that I would have to make the decision to leave the path I was on and make my way over to the new path and go that new way to get to this new and exciting place. Makes complete sense right?

And yet… we don’t make it that simple and that ‘neutral’ when we decide to make behavior changes. We try to ‘game the system’. I have been thinking a lot about neutrality and how helpful it is. We need to get a lot of our ‘feelings’ out of the way and get comfortable with the fact that change requires getting uncomfortable. The word neutral and neural only have 1 letter difference. Maybe that can be a helpful notation 📝. In oder to go a new way, shift gears into neutral to build a new neural pathway. 

As one of my favorite coaches and author’s Trevor Moawad says ‘It Takes What It Takes’. Once you are on the new path and getting the new results it gets into your DNA in a good way. It gets into your mind and heart. This is how identity change happens, lasting permanent, sustainable. By changing your desires at the heart level. You produce new fruit and the law becomes obsolete!   

✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt 

Can you love yourself enough to start walking in a new way?  Love is the key to lasting change, Haven’t you have tried punishing yourself with strict rules and harsh negative self talk long enough? Why not try loving yourself enough to take care of yourself better? Trust me, been there done that, have the t-shirt! Join me and try love, try new, try different and finally start getting where you want to go! 

📖Tomorrows Reading

 Hebrews 9

Coaching Opportunity

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