# Chapter 105

It is interesting that even a champion like Muhammad Ali hated training. But he did it anyways, because he would rather be a champion than less. Most of us aren’t in training to be a champion, but we do all live with the results of our daily decisions, and those are compounded by the years of our lives. While I started with just simple habits, they have become more and more like training the longer I have utilized them, and the one percent incremental raising of the bar in a steady way over the years, has produced some great results that I am pleased with.

What about you? Are you pleased with your income, your weight, your marriage, your relationships with the rest of your family, your job, your contributions to the world, your eternal relationship with Jesus? What do you want to change? You can you know. You seriously can. Too many seem to have decided that they can’t and so they don’t. Don’t even try most of the time. It seems like most are in training for depression or complaining or whining. These are training habitual choices too. You can make different ones. You actually can.

Why don’t you? Start small and be very patient. Honestly for many many years I exercised so that I could eat more. That is not a very successful way to reach my exercise and weight goals. Weight loss happens in the kitchen, and it took me years to come to believe that. Exercise is a path to fitness and feeling great, but not a real weight management process. It takes about half to a third as much food to be healthy as my average American friends eat. I decided to break food’s hold on my life and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Fantastic results! And it applies to my finances and my relationships too. I can train myself in so many ways. I can be a champion of those things I choose. You can too.