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July 30, 2014
Breaking Habits: An Attitude That Keeps Us Stuck
In this episode of the Christian Habits Podcast, we’ll talk about an attitude that keeps us from breaking our habits.
If you’d like help with breaking a habit, check out the breaking a habit tab at the top of this blog.Click here to see the questions on today’s podcast.
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July 23, 2014
04 6 Tips for People Pleasers
Do youever feel like you have to say yes when someone asks you to do something? Do oftenfind yourself saying yes and then regretting it later? Does it bother you when people are unhappy with you?
If so, you may be a people pleaser.
In this podcast, we’ll talk about 6different things you can do if you want to break the habit of people pleasing.We’ll also renew our minds with the people pleasing questions from I Deserve a Donut.
If you...
July 21, 2014
Android I Deserve a Donut App is Out!
TheAndroid version of the I Deserve a Donut app is out! Here’s the link to it at the Google Play Store: I Deserve a Donut Android App.Hope you enjoy the app!
July 16, 2014
How My Friend Lost 140 Pounds
Note: Click on the followinglink tolistenon iTunes: Christian Habits Podcast
Today I’m excited to share an interview with my friend Terry Tignor, who has lost140 pounds over the last 2 1/2 years. Terry is the friend I mentioned in the intro to I Deserve a Donut (And Other Lies That Make You Eat).
Terry has wonderful words of wisdom, and I know her interview will encourage you, no matter how many pounds you have to lose!
In this episode, Terry shares some of her struggles along the way and how Go...
July 9, 2014
CHP02 – When Life is Hard: 11 Questions to Ask
Note: Scroll down to the bottom of this post for the podcast play button.
Welcome to the Christian Habits podcast, episode two!
I won’t normally write a separate blog post to go with thepodcast, but thought I would todayso I could explain what it’s like to do a podcast.
The nice thing about blogging is that if you forget to say something when you write the first draft, you can easily add it in before you publish. Or if you said something you didn’t want to say, you can easily take it out.
You can...
July 5, 2014
CHP01: Welcome to the The Christian Habits Podcast
A few months ago, I interviewed my friend Terry who lost 140 pounds. Rather than doing it on video, I thought, I’ll just tape it and then I can make a podcast.
Little did I know how complicated it was to make a podcast! It’s definitely not for the technologically faint of heart!
But thanks to Terry’s wise words of wisdom that I wanted to share with all of you, I persevered. And now I am excited to introduce my new podcast!
I’ll be doing some interviews, some how-to podcasts, and some podcasts yo...
July 1, 2014
Do You Eat When You’re Tired? 8 Questions That Will Help
Do you ever find yourself eating because you’re tired? It’s easy to grab something thinking, This will perk me up, and then regret it when we’re still tired an hour later.
The truth is, eating may give us energy in the moment, but that energy never lasts for very long.
And while it may be essential at times—when we’re in danger of falling asleep at the wheel, for example—most of the time we’d be far better off if we just took a nap or did something active to boost our energy.
If you struggle wit...
June 24, 2014
When You Feel Like You Will NEVER Break That Habit
Do you ever feel like you will never ever break free from that habit that controls you? That’s how I used to feel about my overeating habit. It was a stronghold in my life—a place I went to for comfort and something that controlled me.
Breaking free from a stronghold, sin, or idol is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. You’ll have times when you feel like you have the problem licked, and then you’ll be right back at it again a few months down the road.
The key to breaking free is to keep...
June 11, 2014
How to Walk in the Spirit – Part 2
In my last post, I said that if we want to walk in the Spirit, we just need to ask Him for help.
Here’s the question I want to ask in this post: Is that all we need to do? In other words, do we just ask Him for help and then, voila, God answers our prayers and makes life great?
I think we all know from experience that it doesn’t always work that way. Often we ask God for help and nothing happens. This surprises us.
We’ve been trained by our culture (and sometimes the church) to think that all we...
June 4, 2014
How to Walk in the Spirit – Part 1
If you’ve been reading my blog for the last couple of years, you know I’ve been struggling with how to keep God firstasa writer and a person who pursues goals.
After countless truth journaling sessions, going through Taste for Truth twice with my writing issues in mind, visiting with God over and over again about the same things, and even blogging about it and getting advice from you guys, here’s the conclusion I’m coming to:
If I want to be close to God as a busy person who pursues goals, a mo...
