All Aboard!

The great thing about trains is there’s no arbitrary upper limit to the number of cars it can pull. Theoretically, with a strong enough engine and a long enough track, you can keep adding cars to a train forever. That means it’s never too late to hop on!

Officially, there are three, four, five of us on this train, with verbal promises from several more. But words are just words! As Debbi put it when she sent her pic in: You’re right, having to take a picture and go through the “work” of sending it to you actually sorta feels like a contract!!! Hopefully it will work!

I think so! It’s this kind of extra commitment, no matter how small, that can sometimes tip the balance. Every single moment of every day is a decision. I talked about this in my Psych Out post a good while back. As you’re wavering in front of a box of cookies, millions of neurons are firing in your brain. A thousand different decision vectors are being added in the blink of an eye. The sum of these vectors dictates whether you will eat the cookies or head off on a brisk walk instead.

This photo—this commitment—is just one of those vectors. It may be weak or strong: I don’t know. But at least it’s there. It’s one more arrow in your quiver and you never know when “one” is what will tip the balance away from the cookies and over toward your goal.

Here’s the train so far. We have a strong engine and an infinite amount of track. It’s never too late to hop on.

We’re ready. Are you?