UNDER THE INFLUENCE (HABITS AREN'T ALL BAD)

Me : several year ago the staff at DVBC was given an exercise to evaluate how we were spending our time - each day was broken down into 15min segments so we made some categories and had to fill in each square with what we were doing…. While we were doing the exercise I was so conscious about how I was using my time… I found myself evaluating everything… instead of my doing what I always did – there were some things I just stopped doing… and there were some things that I normally would not think about but during the evaluation exercise I ended up doing them…

The exercise forced me to think about what I was doing – and I was confronted with the fact that much of what I was doing was simply by habit -

Reality much of life is habitual – automatic routines and patterns – life habits…

“Mostly our behaviour is governed by habit…. Neurologists call this process where the brain converts a sequence of actions into routine activity “Chunking”. - John Ortberg

Chunking turns out to be one of the most important dynamics in terms of sin and discipleship.”

“Chunking turns out to be one of the most important dynamics in terms of sin and discipleship.” - John Ortberg

– John Ortberg