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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 Flossing Saved My Life. A lot of the material
for this week’s episode was inspired by Craig
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Groeschel’s book The Power to Change – Mastering
the Habits That Matter Most. Note, I will talk a
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lot about mental health but please note this is
not a substitute for therapy or mental health
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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 see
last week we talked about change your life change
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your habits in today’s episode we’re going to
be talking about flossing saved my life so last
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week we were talking about our habits and we
didn’t exercise to examine our daily routine
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uh looking at the habits that we do every day that
we probably don’t think about to see you at if we
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need to make any adjustments or before we try to
add a new strategic habits to our routines this
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week we’re talking about flossing saved my life
Craig Rochelle in his book in this chapter goes
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on to talk about how early on I I think he says
for like 20 years he started a new habit every
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year like one new habit and at the very beginning
the first habit that he started was flossing he
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absolutely hated flossing so he figured that if he
can floss on a regular basis and do something that
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he hates than anything else that came along had to
be easier than flossing that is where that title
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comes from and he he goes through and tells a
story kind of like a progression of how he started
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flossing and then from flossing he started other
habits and just how the progression of starting a
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small thing like flossing every day it resulted in
Saving his life that’s where the title comes from
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life-changing principles that he mentions at the
beginning of this chapter are never underestimate
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how God can start something big through one small
habit the small things that no one sees can lead
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to Big results everyone wants and success happens
not by accident but by habits on the first one the
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never underestimate how God can start something
big through one small habit this main story that
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he talks about is the story of Daniel praying
and he goes on on and kind of tells that story
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of how he prayed three times a day and how that
ultimately set the course for Daniel’s life and
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so that was the the one small habit that Daniel
did that changed his life all right and the quote
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from Craig Rochelle hope doesn’t change your life
habits do specifically mastering the habits that
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matter most why is this good news because you’re
not a victim of your circumstances because you
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don’t need something big to magically happen
if you want something big to happen start small
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because you don’t have to keep helplessly hoping
for change you can start and maintain habits that
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will lead to change if you’ll notice a lot of
this overlaps previous chapters so it’s all
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kind of coming starting to come together in this
next part we you know we talked about discipline
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and we talked about you are disciplined a lot
of us we talked about how a lot of us don’t
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see ourselves as disciplined people because if of
how we look at discipline for now realize you are
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disciplined and have been establishing new habits
your whole life we’re now going to get intentional
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with what habits we want to start we’re going to
get intentional with what habits we need to stop
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so hopefully you can see how this is starting to
come together if we look at last episode where we
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were examining our routine to identify habits
that we already do each day that should allow
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you to see things that maybe you want to stop or
maybe things that you want to start by doing that
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exercise from last episode so if you haven’t
done that I would encourage you to go back
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to that episode go through that exercise by doing
that you’ll be able to look at things either that
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you need to start or you need to stop in order
to achieve your goal ideally we only want to
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start one new habit at a time because we’re making
taking such large changes to our routine that we
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want to do everything we can to set ourselves
up for Success you know what Craig Rochelle
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recommends in his book is not to start more than
one new habit at a time all right so we’re kind of
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layering all these different exercises that we’ve
done in in past episodes and we’re kind of putting
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them all together now you know we can look at our
daily routine we can look at like the person that
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the who or the person we want to become and we can
look at things we need to stop or we need to start
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in order to become that person you know don’t feel
like you had to have done all of this or you’re
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all of a sudden lost the good thing is is that
now it’s all online on the Overflow website so if
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there’s a piece of this that you missed if there’s
something that you really need to go back and
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revisit you can absolutely do so now that we’ve
done some of this hard work and gone through a lot
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of these extra sizes we can start piecing together
how we Implement change we’re now going like I
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said we’re now going to get intentional with what
habits we want to start and what we need to stop
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uh and it says choosing the right
habits will change your life
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habits not hope changing your habits change your
life so one reason why this is really encouraging
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for mental health this this is how it really comes
in to practical application for mental health is a
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lot of times and it just doesn’t apply to every
part of mental health but a lot of times when
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you have a diagnosis you feel kind of Trapped you
feel like you’re a victim of your circumstances
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because you know an event has happened or
something happened to trigger your condition
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and you feel somewhat like helpless because all
of a sudden you have this new condition and maybe
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you can’t function right the things that you used
to do you can’t do anymore or it seems like you
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can’t do them anymore so there’s this this feeling
at least in my experience there’s this feeling of
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helplessness that you’re just stuck with what your
circumstances gave you and in in my experience
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going to professionals doctors counselors I didn’t
get the sense that there was a lot of Hope to
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change any of this it you know number Point number
two there you know you don’t need something big to
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magically happen I felt like a miracle needed to
happen for my situation to change I didn’t feel
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like I could do anything to impact what had
happened my circumstances how I was feeling
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other than taking medication and I’m not saying
there’s anything wrong with medication I’m just
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saying that’s the only thing I felt like I could
do or I would get the the recommendation by a
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doctor well why don’t you exercise you know that
is something I could do but for me that was at
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the time when I’m the way that I was feeling the
anxiety that I was feeling at points going outside
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was a big challenge for me just to go outside
and yes I could exercise indoors that’s true
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about all the stuff that I would picture doing to
exercise involved going outside and at the time
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I just didn’t feel like that was something I could
do to impact my situation and so I felt a bit of
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hopelessness and I felt a little bit like I was
a victim of my circumstances and how did I end up
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here and where was God in all of this why this
is important to people with anxiety depression
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you know different forms of mental illness
or mental challenges is that we can impact
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our situation I’m not saying that you can heal
yourself that you’ll magically have everything
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disappear and you’ll be better and back to
where you were before all this happened what
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I’m saying is you can impact it and sometimes
that comes through our perspective and if if
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that’s if that is what you can do to change
where you’re at perspective is a big deal it
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can change you from being a miserable person to a
joyful person and that will change your life okay
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so it at the very least if you the only thing
that you’re able to change is your perspective
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realize that’s a big deal there’s other things
that we can change like the small little changes
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that improve little parts of our life and
when you you know when you make all these
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small little changes over time when you look
back at your life you really did make a big
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Improvement like whether it’s you know improving
your sleep whether it’s through like the things
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that you’re eating or not eating anymore whether
it’s you’re adding a routine like exercising to
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help you kind of process some of the stress
that you feel you know the importance here is
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you know I think I’ve mentioned this at some time
is I always thought that Improvement meant either
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my condition had to completely disappear and
I was suddenly healed of everything in order
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to make a change and that’s just not true I
mean that definitely would do it but what I’m
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saying is it could be your perspective
it could be you make little changes to
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your routine like your sleep exercise level
maybe what you eat these little things that
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when when they you start doing them they make
small improvements when you put them together
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they really make a difference it doesn’t mean
that all of a sudden like once you make these
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improvements your mental health challenges are
gone it’s just you’re learning to better cope with
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your circumstances and what you’re experiencing
and that really sets you up for success in the
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future because say you know after you do all
these changes your your anxiety or depression
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really gets a lot better and you’re feeling so
much better and that prepares you for the future
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when an event um happens something traumatic
comes into your life you can better cope with
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whatever comes your way because you’ve done all
that work to set yourself up for the future we
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have an exercise and it says because we’re talking
about mastering the habits that matter most what
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is the first habit you can establish that could
lead to your biggest win what is the first habit
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you can establish that could lead to your biggest
win in his book Craig Rochelle is talking about
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how flossing the small habit of flossing led to so
much positive change in his life and so likewise
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I believe that we all have something like that
that could lead to positive change in our life
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it’s identifying that first habit that we can
establish the lead to our biggest win he goes
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on to talk about how the actual habit of flossing
helped them to realize he is a disciplined person
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you know that’s a common struggle for many people
is not believing that we’re disciplined and
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that you know adding that one habit of flossing
helped him believe that he’s a disciplined person
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and so he kind of stacks that on top of
okay because he flosses he’s disciplined
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he goes to bed early so he can get
up early he’s a disciplined person
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and so these small things start
to stack and help you to believe
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the things that the truths that you need to
believe to accomplish your goal and so you
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know whether that is going to bed at a certain
time whether that is getting up at a certain time
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it could be a very small habit that could lead to
your overall goal all right so principle here is
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never underestimate how God can start something
big through one small habit the small things
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that no one sees can lead to the big results
everyone wants success happens not by accident
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but by habits uh Luke 16 10 of the New Living
Translation says if you are faithful in little
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things you would be faithful and large ones that’s
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