You know, And we're excited about what God is doing.

We're in the second week of a message series.

It's called Better.

And last week we kicked this series off.

We talked about the idea that so often on the front end of the year, we start

with massive goals, all these amazing things that we want to accomplish in the new year.

We want to have the perfect body, the perfect job, the perfect marriage, the perfect kids,

and we get a few weeks into the new year, and it's really not that perfect.

So this series is about how do you make

progress? How do you choose progress over perfection? And today I have a message for you. I'm

very excited about the message. I want to talk about your habits and how your habits are essential

for progress. Now I started the year. I had a couple of habits that I wanted to work on. One of them was that I wanted to get back physically working out more consistently. And my goal is 21 days per month, which leads up to about 250 days per year. And I'm on track with that. But my other one was I wanted to track what I eat because I found that if I track what I eat,

I pay attention more to what I'm eating.

And I wanted to do 15 days a month.

Well, I'm about halfway through the month as I record this and I've gotten like three

days.

So you can pray for me.

And what I've discovered when it comes to habits, I tell you that, because it's a whole

lot easier to talk about changing

your habits, to think about changing your habits, than to actually changing your habits.

And today I want to step into some very important principles. And I want us to keep in mind some

components of change that so often when we get really practical about what we want to change in our lives,

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