Creating Godly habits, breaking bad ones, and how technology can help
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
To be fair, we here in Modern Times have our share of bad habits to break. If you’re like me, some of them even have to do with things that have to do with less-than-Christian behavior. For instance, some habits I’m trying to train myself to do are:
- Read the Bible daily.
- Not say any words that would lead another Christian to wonder if I’m a Christian (I mean you, “suck,” “pissed,” and “crap”!). I know, I know…pretty radical–but there’s a story behind this. More on that later.
- Pray alone daily for specifically my wife, my son, and my daughter.
- Listen to “something” during my commute that will build my faith (music, Bible study podcasts, etc.).
- Write daily for this blog.
If you’ve ever tried to either create a new habit or break an old one, you’ve probably heard that it takes 21 days for your body to ‘memorize’ this new behavior as habit. Fortunately, there’s a very enterprising person out there in the Land of Geek that has created a website that can help you and I. It’s called Habitforge.com, and it’s a brilliant partnership of the above 21-day rule and technology. I’ve just started using it for each of the above bullets—I figure that, along with the fact that I’ve written about it here, will provide plenty of accountability. Guess we’ll find out in three weeks…here’s how HabitForge works:
Step 1: Name the challenge.
If you could do one thing every day that would change your life for the better, what would it be?
Step 2: Check your email.
We’ll ask you daily by email if you were successful the day before at doing that one thing. From within the email, just click “yes” or “no”, and we’ll do the rest.
Step 3: Succeed for twenty-one days.
Do that one thing you’ve committed to doing. Skip a day before succeeding for 21 days straight, and we’ll start you back at day one. Succeed for 21 days in a row, and you can enter monitoring mode. But by that point the action should seem second nature.
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