Quit Quitting

If you want to make a change, learn how to quit quitting what you need to do on Living Radiance from 12/16/2025 with LaCole "Purlz" Purley! You can always improve yourself and your situation. Walk in faith and move in purpose with love.

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• Romans 10:17 ESV
• Romans 12:2
• Proverbs 23:1-7
• Do you get your lessons directly from God’s Word or from your flesh and thoughts?
• Book: Eat That Frog by: Brian Tracy
• Get creative with your procrastination by better choosing which tasks to procrastinate with first!
  • Decide to do the most important task first to get it out the way first thing in the morning
• Start saying “no” to lower-value things at the current moment
  • That’ll lead you to have more time on those activities later on
  • Remember that you have no spare time
• Book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by: Stephen Covey
  • Begin with the end in mind
• 12 Steps to New Habit Pattern Formation:

1. Identify your desire
   • Determine one habit you want to develop to improve the quality of your life
2. Believe in yourself by building your confidence with your results/new activity
3. Write down your goals every day in present tense
   • Ex: I am on time for every appointment
4. Make a list of three or more benefits for developing each habit you want
   • Ex: “Eat less, eat better”
   • Benefits: Lose weight, clothes fit better, I look better
5. Analyze your starting point
   • Ask yourself “Where am I today?”
   • Ex: You want more money? Calculate exactly what you make today
   • Ex: You want to lose wight? Get on the scale and see how much you weigh
6. Set a deadline
7. Make a list of all of your obstacles
   • Write out each excuse you tell yourself or might use to not do the work then aim to solve the problem
   • Overcome your excuses
   • Stop whining and quitting and start winning and overcoming
8. Identify & research any necessary information
9. Make a list of all involved parties
   • List accountability partners
   • List whose help you need
   • Give them permission to hold you responsible when you slip up
10. Make a plan and get started
    • Once you start it gets easier to keep going
11. Practice clear visualization
12. Decide not to quit
    • Give yourself rewards at each milestone

• P.O.O.R. method = People Overlooking Opportunity Regularly
• Be tough on yourself by setting high standards. Start small and slow. Be patient with yourself as you grow and improve one day at a time
• As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said “Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse”
• Proverbs 4:23-25