The New York Times bestselling author of Win the Day challenges you to adopt seven powerful habits for thirty days and start your journey toward reaching your God-sized dreams. Destiny is not a mystery. Destiny is daily habits. Our lives are built on our patterns of behavior: both constructive and counterproductive habits. Whether we attain the things we desire—mental and physical health, financial freedom, fulfilling relationships—is determined by the things we do and the things we don’t. The good news? You’re one habit away from a totally different life!   You don’t have to tackle the next 30 years. You just have to start with right now.   In Do It for a Day, you’ll begin by identifying a change that is “3M”: measurable, meaningful, and maintainable. Habit formation is both an art and a science, and it helps to close the gap between you and your goals. You can do anything for a day, and those daily habits have a domino effect over time. Mark Batterson will help you hack your habits. Leveraging habit-making and habit-breaking techniques like habit switching and habit stacking, Mark will coach you step by step for 30 days that will change your life. "This productivity book challenges readers to make or break a new habit in 30 days, starting right now. By helping readers identify a meaningful, measurable, and maintainable change, this book can help you adopt daily habits step-by-step with helpful techniques to change your life in a long-lasting way." Business Insider Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC. He holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Time s bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Circle Maker, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Play the Man, Chase the Lion, Whisper, Double Blessing, and, most recently, Win the Day. Mark and his wife, Lora, have three children and live on Capitol Hill. Day 1 Wade into the Water The Sea saw him and fled.  —Psalm 114:3   There is a legend in Judaism about a man named Nahshon. He gets only one begat in the Bible. Of course, that’s one more than you and me! Nahshon disappears almost as soon as he makes his genealogical debut, but the Talmud credits him with saving the nation of Israel by one act of courage. When the Israelites were trapped between the Egyptian army and the Red Sea, no one knew what to do. It seemed like a no-win situation. That’s when God issued a command: “Tell the people of Israel to go forward.” The problem with that was this­—the Red Sea was staring them in the face! None of the tribes wanted to go first, and who can blame them? It felt like a death wish. While the Israelites argued, the leader of the tribe of Judah stepped up and stepped into the Red Sea. According to rabbinic tradition, Nahshon wades into the water like Aquaman. All right, I may be taking a little liberty by adding Aquaman to the equation, but that’s how I envision this epic moment. Nahshon wades into the Red Sea until he’s neck-deep, right up to his nostrils. That’s when and where and how the Red Sea split in half. It was God who made a sidewalk through the sea, but it was Nahshon who made the miracle possible. How? By wading into the water! In the words of the psalmist, “The Sea saw him and fled.” There’s an old axiom: If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat. That is absolutely true, but here’s one more for good measure: if you want God to make a sidewalk through the sea, you’ve got to get your feet wet. Most of us spend the majority of our lives waiting for God to split the Red Sea. Maybe, just maybe, God is waiting for you to wade into the water. What I know for sure is this: if you want God to do the super, you’ve got to do the natural. You have to make a defining decision.  You have to take a calculated risk. You have to make a selfless sacrifice. You have to take a flying leap of faith. That’s all it takes for God to make a sidewalk through the sea, but you’ve got to get your feet wet. And the first step is always the hardest step. Why? You have to overcome the law of inertia by exercising initiative. You have to overcome fear by exercising faith. If you aren’t ready to take that step of faith on day 1, keep reading. God will give you the wisdom, the courage, and the faith you need by day 30! “There are decades where nothing happens,” Vladimir Lenin is purported to have said, “and there are weeks when decades happen.” Let me up the ante: there are days when decades happen! This is one of those days, if you want it to be. You are one habit away from a totally different life! The next thirty days can set the table for the next thirty years. This is the first day of the rest of your life. If you believe that, mark the moment by jotting down the date in the margin. This book is your rite of passage to a new chapter, a new normal, a new you. But you have to wade into the water, right up to your nostrils. Faith is being sure of what