Breaking Bad Habits in Your Life (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 11 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 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have people speaking in your life? Have you invited people to speak into your life? |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe you're listening and you're like, oh, I guess I don't really have people who are helping me. |
| 0:10.0 | Find people and ask them to give you that outside in perspective because a huge part of |
| 0:15.2 | change is taking ownership and acknowledging what we need to change. A huge part of it is |
| 0:20.4 | what scripture refers to as confession confess your sins and struggles to one |
| 0:25.1 | another so that you can be healed. I don't think that necessarily means just our |
| 0:29.5 | sin. I think it can also refer to any area where we want to heal and grow. |
| 0:34.0 | It has to start with acknowledging and confession. |
| 0:37.0 | That's Councillor Deborah Faleta, urging all of us to be |
| 0:45.0 | proactive in our lives and finding a community to help us be accountable to those changes. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to a Best Of Edition of Focus on the Family. |
| 0:51.0 | Deborah was our guest a number of months ago in |
| 0:53.2 | 2023 and this content was so powerful we wanted to share it with you again. |
| 0:58.0 | Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:02.3 | John this is part two of that conversation with and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:02.5 | John this is part two of that conversation with Deborah. |
| 1:05.4 | We featured the first part last time where Deborah explained, |
| 1:08.9 | why change is hard? |
| 1:10.3 | Often because life gets so busy and noisy, you know the clutter, we don't stop and take stock of what's going on. |
| 1:19.0 | She also recommended having an outside end perspective where we evaluate how others perceive us. |
| 1:25.4 | For example, are we calm or intense, in control or going crazy? |
| 1:30.6 | And then Deborah explained why it's important to ask for help from others when we need it and even allow them to speak into our lives. |
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