If you’ve ever been on an old country dirt road, you know that through time the ruts just get deeper and deeper and more pronounced.

I can still see the rutted red dirt roads where I grew up. The road was much lower than the sides where tall, wild grass grew. Often there was also a strip down the very center that was grass. Because once the ruts were cut in, the only path for the tires was on those ruts.

Our lives can easily become like those old dirt roads. We can get in a habit of doing somet...