"Why do you do what you do?"

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My wife and I moved furniture out of our kitchen recently so that I could paint. We left the large, round oak table in the center of the breakfast nook, but the rest of the stuff—like the telephone table—had to go so that I could paint. So we moved some of it into the family room and the rest of it into the dining room.

Now I knew where this furniture went because I helped move it. But every time the phone rang, I got up and headed to the telephone table in the kitchen. But it wasn’t there. I would need to look up a friend’s phone number. Immediately I got up and went to the telephone table in the kitchen, expecting to open the drawer and pick up the phone book. Every time I wanted to write a note, I’d walk over to get the pad and pen on the telephone table in the kitchen. But it wasn’t there.

Now why did I do that? The same reason you do what you do—we’re creatures of habit. You get into a pattern or routine that you follow without thinking.

Today think about why you do what you do as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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