“Habits eat willpower for breakfast” (Soul Keeping, John Ortberg) – and we will change the way we think (Rom 12:2) by developing these habits. I feel like God showed me these things a little more than a year ago, and they keep ringing true in my spirit . . .

• Whenever you’re sad and discouraged – remember God’s wins through you
• Whenever you’re satisfied and comfortable and proud of yourself – remember some losses
• Whenever you’re anxious – take the time immediately to breath deeper until your soul is at peace again
• When you’re lonely – curl up in the arms of our Savior
• When you’re angry take a timeout and reevaluate your soul. Diagnose the places that you are disconnected and reconnect to God
• When you’re tempted to sin – take a timeout to remember the vision that your soul with God’s help has for your life, and make soul level decisions for right
• When you’re burdened – breath deeper, take longer with Jesus, until the burden lifts
• When there’s strife – remember that Jesus’ yoke is easier – come to him and learn how to respond with loving, measured, hope-filled determination
• When you see pain meditate on God’s beauty He has created in our world.
• When you can’t forgive, think of all the things you’ve been forgiven
• When we fight boredom remember all the things that God will do through you in your soul level picture
• We fight being overly competitive by realizing the patience of God again
• When you’re tempted to sin run to a place of delight in God
• When we are exhausted rest in God’s smile
• When you begin to fear, lean in to God’s love