Studies have been done lately that show habits are contagious.

Have a group of friends that are overweight and you gain a little.

Have a group of friends that are losing weight and you lose some too.

The glaring example of this lately has been our kids.

After I noticed some little kid socks on the floor the other day, I came to a realization. Little kids probably aren’t born with a "leave your socks on the ground" gene and that maybe they had picked up this bad habit from me.

After a little reflection, my feelings of disappointment in myself gave way to a glimmer of optimism.

If bad habits are contagious, I bet good ones are too.

I bet if I could show the kids some good habits, they just might catch one or two of those.

I wonder if I could just create one good habit what kind of ripple effect that might have.

My kids, my wife, Mavidea, strangers….one little good habit might do some real good in this world.

As you look at your life and your habits, it might be helpful to look at them from the lens of "would I want someone else to catch this habit from me?"

Keep it simple to start, just do more of the good contagious stuff and less of the bad contagious stuff.

Make it a great day.

Jake ​