HabitFast Journey-Day 11-Books, People, Thoughts

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech – is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind.

— Andy Andrews —

  What books are you reading? Who are you listening to? What thoughts are you tolerating? The answers to these three questions will tell you why you are what you are today and where you will be in the future. HabitFast Journey Action Steps: 1.  Start the day-reflect, meditate, journal and prayerfully turn your plan over…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 10-Now is the Future

If you don’t decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

— Robert Brault —

How intentional are you when it comes to living your life today in order to be what you want to be tomorrow?  Every decision you make is taking you one step closer to or one step farther away from the person you aspire to be and the life God wants you to have.   HabitFast…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 9-On Purpose

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

— Unknown —

And if you are doing the HabitFast Journey, you have something to be “on purpose” about. A life well lived is a life lived on purpose.   “One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present.  That ability can give you a completely…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 8-Progress over Perfection

If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.

— Kenneth Schwarz —

Today is the DAY you begin starving an old habit and/or creating new productive habits. A couple of thoughts: 1.  Don’t feel as though you need to be perfect during this journey.  If a slip up turns into a set up for an even better HabitFast Journey, don’t throw in the towel.  The ultimate measure…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 7-The Best Day Starts the Night Before

The start of a perfect day begins the night before.

— Matthew Kelly —

This is Day 7 of our preparatory phase of the 2015 HabitFast Journey. The final step in this process of preparing you for success in starving or starting your habit requires some discipline on your part as I strongly encourage you to reflect, journal and pray twice daily during your HabitFast Journey.   Journaling and praying for…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 6 – Tracking Progress

If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself.

— Swami Satchidananda —

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…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 5-Negative Triggers

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

— Joan Wallach Scott —

Here we are on Day 5 of our HabitFast Journey and we haven’t even officially started starving or starting our habit(s) yet.  As I mentioned earlier, the reason most goals are never attained is because of lack of planning and up to this point in our HabitFast Journey, we’ve been developing a plan. If breaking habits…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 4-Habits and Others

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin —

We are on Day 4 of the EagleLaunch-HabitFast Journey.  Keep in mind the real fun does not start until February 25th.  The first 7 days are all preparation days.  We are going to starve and/or start our habit for 40 days and beyond, beginning next Wednesday. Today I would like for you to add to your…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 3-Taking Form

First we form habits; then they form us.

— Mark Matteson —

  OK, at this point in time you have at least one page in your journal dedicated to your 2015 HabitFast and so far you’ve written down whom you aspire to be, the habit you are starving, or starting, and what your life will look like in 5 years because of this change in habit(s). The…

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HabitFast Journey-Day 2-Paint the Picture

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter —

The EagleLaunch HabitFast Journey is all about making positive changes in your life and becoming more.  Whatever you need in order to become more lies inside of you.  My goal over the next six weeks is to help you find “it.” By now, you should have a section in your journal devoted to your HabitFast Journey (see February…

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