Today, I will try to make my good habits stronger than my bad habits. I will list all my habits so that I can track how well I'm reinforcing the good ones and extinguishing the bad ones.
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We vow to exercise every day---then the weather turns bad, we have conflicts in our schedule, and suddenly we don't feel up to it anymore, We vow to send thank you-notes for every gift we receive---but we get busy, time goes by, and then what's the point? We vow to eat healthier food, but we're in a rush, a fast food
restaurant is close by, and there goes our diet. Why is it so easy to stop doing things that are good for us? yet so hard to give up bad habits?
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"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
~W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM~
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"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."
Colossians 2:8
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I have firmly held beliefs-and need to recognize that others may hold different beliefs just as firmly.
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It's easy to assume that what we see and think represents the world at large. Our friends and family tend to share our outlook, and this reinforces our sense of the universality of our perspective. We get comfortable using such expressions. "Everyone Knows..." or "We all believe...without considering what a small sample "everyone" and "we" refers to.
Searching out friends and aquaintances of varied backgrounds and experiences, and learning about thier perspectives, helps make us more aware of how limited our viewpoint is.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
~ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER~
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"The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children."
Romans 8:16
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When I am with children, like my great neice Olivia-I'll pay attention to them and to what they bring into my life.
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A good cure for being bored, frustrated or depressed is to spend some time with children. Everything is new to them-and this fresh outlook can be catching. Walking with a child, we can see again, as if for the first time, the right beauty of flowers, the relentless diligence of insects, the myriad shapes of the clouds. Children make us slow down, to match their gait. They ask questions-questions we may have forgotten we know the answers to. Their young eyes notice things we have not looked at for years.
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GOOD AND BAD HABITS
Today, I will try to make my good habits stronger than my bad habits. I will list all my habits so that I can track how well I'm reinforcing the good ones and extinguishing the bad ones.
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GOOD AND BAD HABITS
We vow to exercise every day---then the weather turns bad, we have conflicts in our schedule, and suddenly we don't feel up to it anymore, We vow to send thank you-notes for every gift we receive---but we get busy, time goes by, and then what's the point? We vow to eat healthier food, but we're in a rush, a fast food restaurant is close by, and there goes our diet. Why is it so easy to stop doing things that are good for us? yet so hard to give up bad habits?
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GOOD AND BAD HABITS
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." ~W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM~
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VERSE TO REMEMBER
"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ." Colossians 2:8
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FIELD OF VISION
I have firmly held beliefs-and need to recognize that others may hold different beliefs just as firmly.
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FIELD OF VISION
It's easy to assume that what we see and think represents the world at large. Our friends and family tend to share our outlook, and this reinforces our sense of the universality of our perspective. We get comfortable using such expressions. "Everyone Knows..." or "We all believe...without considering what a small sample "everyone" and "we" refers to. Searching out friends and aquaintances of varied backgrounds and experiences, and learning about thier perspectives, helps make us more aware of how limited our viewpoint is.
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FIELD OF VISION
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." ~ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER~
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VERSE TO REMEMBER
"The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children." Romans 8:16
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BEING WITH CHILDREN
When I am with children, like my great neice Olivia-I'll pay attention to them and to what they bring into my life.
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BEING WITH CHILDREN
A good cure for being bored, frustrated or depressed is to spend some time with children. Everything is new to them-and this fresh outlook can be catching. Walking with a child, we can see again, as if for the first time, the right beauty of flowers, the relentless diligence of insects, the myriad shapes of the clouds. Children make us slow down, to match their gait. They ask questions-questions we may have forgotten we know the answers to. Their young eyes notice things we have not looked at for years.
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