“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
The last post talked about finding your mountain of “stuckness” and turning.
This week is an ideal time to take a thoughtful look back. Get out your calendar. See where you went; what you did. Where did I waste time? Where did I invest? Is there a trip I made last year that I should do again and improve upon?
Open your list manager. What did you accomplish? What is left? What can be dropped? What must be added to be what I want to be this year?
Who are the people I met with? Who should I have met with? Where can I set aside time to intentionally find people with whom I should mentor or converse next year?
Now, let’s take a look at our friend Aristotle.
We are what we repeatedly do.
That means what we need to work on this year are a couple of new habits. Steve Carter talked about lifting the idea of 40 days from the Deuteronomy story that related to the Hebrews. Do something for 40 days. Make a commitment.
Each day for the next 40 days, I will [fill in the blank]. After 40 days it will become a habit.
Sometimes we fall into bad or sloppy habits. Reading the wrong thing, sleeping in, talking instead of working out, eating that doughnut.
We must become self-aware. See ourselves as if from the outside doing that behavior. Then we decide to replace that bad habit with a desirable one. That is practice.
Let’s repeatedly do excellence. It really is a Spiritual Discipline.
Tags: actions, attitude, awareness, disciplines, Faith, focus, growth, lifestyle
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