My Grandma: A photo worth a MILLION words

I can confidently say this is still one of my favorite photos of my grandma I have taken (taken in December 2018). How many of you are fortunate to still have grandparents alive?  This is my mom’s mom. My boys’ great grandma.  👵🏻

She is blind in one eye and rapidly losing her sight in the other.  👓. Soon she will be completely blind. Tonight after she got ready for bed at a mere 💯 years young (101 in February), she was very quiet in her room. I walked in and this is what I see.  👀 She was reading the New Testament when I walked in.  I told her how much I loved seeing her read the Bible and asked her if she can tell many one of her favorite bible verses.  ✝️ She quickly started to recite this Proverbs verse.  So I turned to that page in her well worn Bible with paper thin pages and enjoyed seeing that verse was underlined by her many years ago.  😍

This vision of grandma stopped me in my tracks for a number of reasons.  The first thing I noticed was her physically; her tiny frail body uncertain of how many years it has left, weathered hands that belong to a woman who survived the depression, her fingers polished reminding me of her attention to detail and desire to always look her best.  💅

And even more than her physical demeanor I thought about habits and desire.  This woman who is almost blind chose to sit down to read the Bible with a magnifying glass because that’s just what she does.  Things done routinely, good or bad, become habits.  And habits become daily routine which lead us to our way of life.  💪 

Whether it’s discipline within your work, faith, fitness or other avenue of your life when you do something long enough you go back to it day after day without even thinking.  👍  You don’t succeed at a project/business... could it be that you didn’t practice the habits that would prepare you for success?!  Work hard for what you want by focusing on the most effective tasks to get you to your goal. Keep making steps forward.  👣

Seems like a timely reminder. As we are in the midst of a year filled with so much uncertainty it would be easy to coast and lose our passion and focus for what matters most. I challenge you to set goals in both business and personal and remember my grandma as an example.  If she didn’t become a creature of habit about reading the Bible, she certainly wouldn’t sit down and pick it up on an evening when she’s tired, slightly confused AND has poor vision.  She does it because that is what she knows.  🙏

What do you want to be doing in 5 years, 25 years or 50 years from now?  Do it now.  Do it everyday. Build those habits.  Let’s finish 2020 strong! 🎉

XOXOXO,

Heather