Great stuff from the Swami…don’t give your bad habit an opportunity to repeat itself.
We are almost ready to start our 40 day fast…and if some of you have already started…no problem. The next step of the preparatory phase involves creating a scorecard to track your progress.
You will need to designate a page or two in your journal as your HabitFast Scorecard. Your Scorecard is where you will track the progress of your HabitFast Journey. Â
Your Scorecard will include forty (40) “score boxes” to help you grade yourself on a daily basis. An important discipline you will develop during this journey is an end of the day reflection and journaling time where you will take inventory of your day and give yourself a grade/score.
In my “Scorecard” sample below you will see 40 score boxes. The number in the top half of the box is the day of the journey and the number in the bottom half of the box is your score.
The scoring system is a simple 1 through 5 system:
“5” would be representative of an “A” or “excellent day.”
“4” represents a “B” or a “good day where progress was made,”
“3” represent a “C” or “I was OK but should have done better day.”
“2” represents a D or “I sort of sucked on this day”
“1” represents an F or “I failed big time on this day.”
Obviously your grading will be subjective and I suggest you give yourself a 4/B or higher for every day you experience improvement when compared to where you were when you started the HabitFast Journey.
At the end of the journey we will total the score of all of our days and divide that number by forty (40) in order to calculate our average score for the journey. Those scoring 3.75 or higher will receive an official “EagleLaunch-HabitFast 2015” t-shirt.
Here is an example of what your HabitFast Journal page(s) could be looking like at this point:
1. I aspire to be at peace in all situations.
2.  In order to be at peace in all situations I will starve ALL negative and unproductive thoughts about myself and others.
3. By starving my negative thoughts I will have a calmer, more focused life in 5 years and all of my relationships will be stronger because people will want to be around me but more importantly God will make better use of me.
4. My replacement habit(s) is/are: Prayer and seeking God’s help in replacing all negative thoughts with productive thoughts.
5. Those benefitting the most from my habit change include: God, me, my children, my family, my co-workers, those around me, the world, family generations to come.
6. I commit to preventing “Negative Triggers” from influencing my disposition.
7. I will utilize my HabitFast Journey Scorecard on a daily basis in order to track my progress.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, this is what it is like to live life by design and not by default…it takes a little work but it is very fulfilling.
Galatians 6:9, “So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up or quit.â€Â (MSG)
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
