Why You Do What You Do

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Hello, and welcome to The Overflow Podcast.
My name is Craig Booker. The title of this

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episode is Why You Do What You Do. A lot
of the material for this week’s episode

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was inspired by Craig Groeshel‘s book The Power to Change,
Mastering the Habits That Matter Most.

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Note: I will talk a lot about mental health, but
please note this is not a substitute for therapy

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or mental healthcare. I am not a counselor
or a physician if you need help with mental

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health challenges, please find a qualified mental
health professional, the title of this episode

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is why you do what you do in this section and
Craig Groeschel starts out talking about change

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and making positive changes in our lives and he
says a real change isn’t behavior modification

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real change is spiritual transformation when
people think of changing they typically think of

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behaviors they want to start or stop for example
for start meaning I want to start this habit or

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behavior maybe I want to start reading the Bible
I want to start tithing I want to start being more

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grateful saving more money being present for my
kids some stop behaviors meaning I want to stop

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this Behavior maybe it’s a negative thinking
being late drinking too much procrastination

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overreacting so exercise for this section is write
down things that you want to start and stop and

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then if God told you that he would miraculously
change one thing in you what would you want it to

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be a principle for this section is to experience
change that lasts focus on who not do Isaiah 43:19

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in the NLT says for I’m about to do something
new see I have already begun do you not see it

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I will make a pathway through the wilderness
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

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So this idea, this concept of a spiritual who. You
do what you do because of what you think of you.

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Proverbs 23:7 in the NKJV says, “For
as he thinks in his heart so is he.”

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Craig Groeschel in his book says what does so he
is mean what is so he is mean uh who we are our

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character shapes our thoughts about ourselves and
others what we think is a reflection of who we are

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that then shapes Our Lives we have no
choice but to live out who we think

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we are what we think within ourselves we are we
make decisions based on our self-identification

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he goes on to say that research shows that when
making a choice we essentially and subconsciously

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ask ourselves three questions uh the first one
is what type of person am I two is what kind

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of situation is this three is what does someone
like me do in a situation like this so instead

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of focusing on what you want to do decide who you
want to become James Clear author of atomic habits

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says every action you take is a vote for the type
of person you wish to become no single instance

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will transform your beliefs but as the votes build
up so does the evidence of your new identity Craig

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groeschel says your self-identity is a primary
reason that you make decisions so another exercise

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is he gives two statements and there’s blanks to
fill in those statements and he says when I blank

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my underlying belief is that blank so here you
could go through some of your behaviors and and

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do some reflection on when you you do certain
things what is your under underlying belief we

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have a principle here it says you do what you do
because of what you think about you Mark 10 27 of

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the NLT says Jesus looked at them intently and
said humanly speaking it is impossible but not

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with God everything is possible with God that’s
all for this episode thank you for watching if you

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