HABITS · JAMES CLEAR
BecomingHer
Five years from now will not suddenly create a different version of you.
What you choose now is already shaping the person you will become. Every decision, every discipline, every direction you keep choosing is forming you, whether you are conscious of it or not. You are becoming regardless, by intention or by default.
So the question is, if you do not decide who you are becoming, what will? Your environment? The people around you? Whatever life throws at you? Are you willing to let your life be determined by chance, luck, or fate?
Perhaps the girl you see in your mind is not merely ambition. Perhaps she is a glimpse of what has already been written into your life. Purpose often precedes understanding and clarity. Sometimes the question is not “What is your purpose?” but “Who is the girl I keep seeing when I picture the life I want?”
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Short reads on identity, purpose and the choices shaping who you become.
THE FORMATION MAP
What shapes who you become?
Formation is happening in the ordinary moments of your life. It is rarely one dramatic event that changes a person. More often, it is what slowly settles in through repetition, familiarity, and lived experience until it begins to shape the way you think, respond, and move through the world.
Look at your life through these three points and notice what is already taking shape.
- Who are the three people you listen to the most?
- What kind of content do you find yourself consuming the most, and what keeps pulling you back to it?
- What three habits have become part of your life over the past year?
- What part of you feels more developed now than it did a year ago?
- What are you starting to outgrow?
- What kind of person would your current life produce if you kept living this way?
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AFFIRMATION BOARD
“Our affirmations are not wishful thinking. They are agreement with what God has already spoken.”
Whoseare you?
- I am the light of the world, a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. Matthew 5:14
- I am a king and a priest unto God, and I shall reign on the earth. Revelation 5:10
- Wealth and honor come from God. Power and might are in His hand; He makes people great and gives strength. 1 Chronicles 29:12
- I am the head and not the tail. I am above and not beneath. Deuteronomy 28:13
- I am God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works. Ephesians 2:10
Becoming resources
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The AlchemistPaulo Coelho
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Start with WhySimon Sinek
The Purpose Driven LifeRick Warren
Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl
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