Habits – Who Before Do

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WHO BEFORE DO

• Successful people do what other people do .

“Our habits will make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.” Sean Covey

I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. 18 … I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. … 24Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. … Romans 7:15, 18-19, 24-25

Three Reasons We Don’t Succeed

1. We focus on the but don’t understand the .

“You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.” James Clear 

2. We don’t see progress enough.

• Wrongly conclude: Small decisions don’t matter that much.
• Wrongly conclude: Small decisions don’t matter that much.

• Our is the sum total of all the decisions that we make.

• It’s the things that no one that bring results everyone .

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV

3. Our distorted identity our success. 

• An unhealthy identity creates unwise .
• Unwise habits reinforce an unhealthy .

We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. … 18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. Romans 6:6-7, 18

• A healthy identity creates positive .
• Positive habits reinforce a healthy .

WHO DO YOU WANT TO BECOME?

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