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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Breaking Bad Habits in Your Life (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Debra Fileta wants to help people experience change in healthy ways. She warns about the typical pattern of changing a few externals in our lives but not working on our “internal wiring”. Debra examines our thought life and how easy it is for our brains to follow the path of least resistance. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0

Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we're returning to one of our most popular

0:05.0

programs.

0:06.0

It aired a number of months ago in 2023, and we explored the topic of change and why that's

0:11.6

really hard to do sometimes.

0:13.0

Maybe you can relate to these comments.

0:15.0

I have this bad habit of when I'm nervous I talk a lot like way too much.

0:20.0

I need to stop being so fidgety.

0:22.0

I'm always messing with my hair and things like that and it's a

0:26.8

self-conscious thing. I wish that I procrastinated less.

0:31.0

I tend to be laid a lot because I try to cram everything into every minute of the day.

0:36.0

Sometimes I tend to overthink things. I want to make sure I have all the details and then what they're thinking and what I'm thinking.

0:41.0

I just need to slow down and realize it's going to be okay and it's going to work out.

0:45.2

I would like to be more courageous, especially in conflict where I'm willing to speak up and say what I think.

0:53.0

I wish I could get over the habit of constantly hitting the snooze button.

0:58.0

Well, I think those sound like some good New Year's resolutions, don't you?

1:03.8

Our host is Focus President and author Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller.

1:08.0

John, I don't know about you, but I think change is a good thing.

1:11.5

It's not necessarily an easy thing.

1:13.4

Never easy, it seems. And you know I think those resolutions every year to lose 20 pounds

1:18.9

or go to the gym more often are kind of the ones that are overly used, but it can be a lot of different things

1:24.8

that we want to change, maybe reading the word every day or as many days as possible,

1:29.8

and then we get into it and it just isn't doable seemingly.

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