251. 4 Small Choices That Shape Your Life
These small choices may surprise you!
The small choices you repeat every day shape your life more than you realize. In this episode, Julie shares four simple patterns that influence your peace, presence, and direction — and how small, intentional shifts with God can change everything over time. Join Abundant Life Mentor, Julie Lefebure, each Tuesday as she offers real encouragement for your real life right now through a fresh, hope-filled perspective, a lighthearted inspiration, and Biblical insights. Each episode will lift your spirits and equip you to be a light in this world. Find extra encouragement at julielefebure.com/resources/.
The small choices you repeat every day shape your life more than you realize. In this episode, Julie shares four simple patterns that influence your peace, presence, and direction — and how small, intentional shifts with God can change everything over time. Join Abundant Life Mentor, Julie Lefebure, each Tuesday as she offers real encouragement for your real life right now through a fresh, hope-filled perspective, a lighthearted inspiration, and Biblical insights. Each episode will lift your spirits and equip you to be a light in this world. Find extra encouragement at julielefebure.com/resources/.
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This week on the Encouragement for Real Life podcast, we’re wrapping up the Simple Shifts for Everyday Life series by looking at something that silently shapes all of us—the small patterns we repeat every single day.
Most of us don’t wake up one day suddenly living a life we don’t want. Instead, it happens slowly, through repeated choices, rhythms, reactions, and habits that eventually become our “normal.” In this episode, Julie shares how several years ago she realized that nothing in her life was necessarily falling apart, but she felt rushed, distracted, less present, and like she was simply moving through her days instead of truly living them. And when she finally slowed down long enough to ask God what needed to change, she discovered it wasn’t one big dramatic thing—it was the small repeated patterns shaping her life.
Together, we look at four small choices that quietly shape our everyday lives:
- What we give our time to
- What we return to daily
- What we normalize
- What we continue holding onto
This episode is not about pressure or trying harder. It’s about awareness. Because once we begin noticing the patterns we’re living in, we can invite God to help us make small, life-giving shifts that lead us back to peace, presence, and intentional living.
Julie also shares honestly about her own tendency to rush through life and how God is teaching her to live at a slower, more peaceful pace.
If you’ve been feeling distracted, emotionally heavy, overwhelmed, or stuck in autopilot lately, this episode will gently encourage you to pause, reflect, and ask God what patterns may be shaping your life more than you realize.
Plus, Julie shares about her devotional book, Made for More: 365 Devotions for the Woman Who Refuses to Settle, created to help women return to truth and live with greater purpose and peace one day at a time. week.
Links:
- Last week's episode: 250. The 10-Minute Reset You Can Use Anytime
- James 4:8 NIV
- 1 Peter 5:7 NIV
- Grab your copy of Julie's new daily devotional: Made for More
- Access Julie's free Resource Library for ways to live an abundant life
- Watch on YouTube
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