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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Habits

I have some good habits and some habits that are not good for me.

Bad habits

Eating after 8
Watching too much ESPN
Impatience in a line

Good habits

Finishing my work first
trying to eat right when I eat
reading my bible every day

here are some quotes on habits...what are some of yours both good and bad?

To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy... we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague. -- William James

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil. -- William James

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse in like the letting fall of al ball of string which one is carefully winding up, a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. Continuity of training is the great means of making the nervous system act infallible right. -- William James

Habit simplifies the movements required to achieve a given result, makes them more accurate and diminishes fatigue. -- William James

We must form the habit of love until it is the practice of our lives. --Oswald Chambers

I have never known a man to overcome a bad habit gradually. --John R. Mott

The Christian must see that bad habits are ultimately spiritual issues. -- Erwin Lutzer

A bad habit takes twenty-one days to break; a good habit takes twenty one days to make. --Anonymous
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Jon said...

Good habits:

Prayer constantly
Read bunches
Don't watch a lot of TV

Bad habits:

Bad eating (good food though)
Not enough exercise
Not open enough

In military and law enforcement training, we try to train to a certain standard for physical tasks. That standard is "muscle memory" and it implies that in a given situation, your body will do what it is supposed to without required thought. It is how we are taught to shoot, and fight, and survive. Habits require the same kind of "memory." You must forget the bad and remember the good until your memory can only do the good.

Not easy, not simple, not a pleasant task. We were not promised easy, simple or pleasant. We were promised eternal life in heaven with our Savior. All grief that we can suffer here is compared to a grain of sand on the great dunes of the desert when it is set beside the suffering of Jesus. Our goal is to strive to be more like Jesus each and every day. More forgiving, more loving, more compassionate, more generous, more gentle, more kind, more self controlling, more patient, etc.

Less of the bad, more of the good. Love God, love people.

Jon

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