What Are Some of your Habits?

That sounds like a personal question doesn’t it? You could think , “Well, my habits are none of your business!” To a degree that is true. I REALLY don’t want to know all of your habits, but I would like to remind you that your habits are vital to shaping who you are and who you are becoming.

I just started reading H3 Leadership by Brad Lomenick and Brad clearly shows the impact of our habits on our life. He states that “leadership is more than hard work; it is habitual work.” The book is developing the truth that “The path to being a better leader is paved with the asphalt of the habits we develop.” One of the many practical and challenging illustrations in the book is about a friend of his. Brad writes:

“Or you might consider Kyle, a friend of mine who pastors a church that runs more than fifteen thousand in weekly attendance. For the first five years the congregation couldn’t even pay their bills. Kyle considered getting out of the ministry altogether because he was so discouraged. But today, he shepherds the largest church in their denomination and has launched several successful satellite locations. He’ll tell you that creating and sustaining better habits made all the difference.”

 Wow, are habits really that powerful? I believe they are and I am anxious to learn, grow and change habits to be more effective. He states: “Habits take an idea and converts it into results. A habit is a practice shaped by behavior or daily action that helps turn ideals into action, principles into practice, and concepts into concrete.”

So, what are some of your habits? Your life today is the sum of the choices you have made and habits you have established in your life to this point. If you want your life to be different in the days ahead you may want to evaluate your habits and eliminate some and develop some new ones.

In the next to last line of the introductory chapter Brad states: “becoming a better leader begins with building better habits.”

Let’s get building,

Pastor Mike