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Hello and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. The title of this episode
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is Change Your Life? Change Your Habits. A lot of
the material for this week’s episode was inspired
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by Craig Groeschel’s book The Power to Change
Mastering the Habits That Matter Most. Note: I will
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talk a lot about mental health but please note
this is not a substitute for therapy or mental
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health care I am not a counselor or a physician if
you need help with mental health challenges please
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find a qualified mental health professional for
this episode it will be change your life change
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your habits some opening quotes that he starts
with in this section of the book is your choices
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create the course and Contours of your life
your decisions determine your destiny by Craig
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groeschel another quote your choices are less
intentional and more habitual than you realize
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all right so those are some quotes that frame
our discussion in his book there’s he mentions
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a quote that some people attribute to Aristotle
that says we are what we repeatedly do and so if
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you agree with this quote this would mean who you
are where you are and the life you are living is
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largely shaped by your habits a big point of this
section is Hope did not get us to where we are now
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our decisions and our habits led us here right
a quote by Craig Rochelle is we are largely who
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and where we are because of our habits and this
week there’s not a lot at the beginning of the
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chapter and so we’re going to dive right into this
exercise and go from there and so the exercise
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says write down your daily routine to write down
our daily routine uh write down your routine your
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rituals and your habits the point here is that
we’re not going to write down what you wish or
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hope to do write down what you actually do and the
goal of the goal of this exercise is for you to
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look at your routine because so few people ever
stop to evaluate their daily habits we just do
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these habits because we’ve always done them but
largely most most people that have their habits
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they may not know why they started them there’s
just not a lot of people that will that will stop
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and salmon what they do each day and why they do
it so I provided a short outline or template for
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this exercise identifying by different parts
of your day your morning maybe your midday or
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around noon then your afternoon and evening a
lot of this has to do with our human nature we
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get comfortable with certain routines we’re just
taking time to examine the things that we always
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do hopefully bringing some insight into our habits
probably will take time to actually realize what
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you do that is a habit I would encourage you to
take time and really break down your day and you
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know this may take different iterations to figure
out different habits and stuff routines that you
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have in different circumstances but I think it’s
worthwhile to examine what we do on a daily basis
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if we true truly believe that our habits and our
decisions are what shape who we are and where we
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are as a person so the principle here is if you
want to change who you’re becoming change your
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habits if you want to change where you’re going
change your habits if you want to change your
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life change your habits since Jesus went through
everything you’re going through and more learn to
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think like him first Peter 4 verses 1 through 2
and this is reading from the message translation
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it says think of your sufferings as a weaning
from that Old sinful habit of always expecting to
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get your own way then you’ll be able to live out
your days free to pursue what God wants instead
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of being tyrannized by what you want that’s all
for this episode thank you for watching if you
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