Up Habits #3
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Aristotle - We are What We Repeatedly Do
Aristotle - We are What We Repeatedly Do
We Form Habits and Our Habits Form us
We Form Habits and Our Habits Form us
Most people have Up-Hill Hopes and Down Hill Habits.
Most people have Up-Hill Hopes and Down Hill Habits.
2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Week 1 - Focus on First Things
Week 1 - Focus on First Things
Week 2 - Control Our Thoughts
Week 2 - Control Our Thoughts
Habit #3: KEEP MY LIFE ALIGNED WITH MY PURPOSE.
Habit #3: KEEP MY LIFE ALIGNED WITH MY PURPOSE.
Because I have a PURPOSE.
Because I have a PURPOSE.
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
We need to Live by Design, not by Default
We need to Live by Design, not by Default
Because there is a competition for my time and attention.
Because there is a competition for my time and attention.
An Overwhelmed schedule will often produce an underwhelmed soul
An Overwhelmed schedule will often produce an underwhelmed soul
6 Perhaps so, but it is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than to be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.
Because Time is Short.
Because Time is Short.
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
PUTTING THE HABIT TO WORK
PUTTING THE HABIT TO WORK
1. Decide what is IMPORTANT.
1. Decide what is IMPORTANT.
7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
2. Give CALENDAR TIME to the important things.
2. Give CALENDAR TIME to the important things.
12 Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.
Rule of 5
Rule of 5
Spend time in prayer. Study God’s Word. Love those Closest to me. Make a difference in someone’s life. Take Care of Myself.
Spend time in prayer. Study God’s Word. Love those Closest to me. Make a difference in someone’s life. Take Care of Myself.
Make time for RENEWAL.
Make time for RENEWAL.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
Make time for RELATIONSHIPS.
Make time for RELATIONSHIPS.
Make time for REWARD.
Make time for REWARD.
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
3. Eliminate the NON-ESSENTIALS.
3. Eliminate the NON-ESSENTIALS.
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
4. Regularly TAKE INVENTORY.
4. Regularly TAKE INVENTORY.
4 “Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered— how fleeting my life is. 5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.” Interlude