Week 10 · Lesson 1
The Work
Eight questions. What you write is read by your facilitator and nobody else. Not your officer, not your school, not your family, and not in any report. Three of these you do not write down at all.
Week 10 of 23 · Habits, Coping and Stress
Nobody reads this one. What do you reach for when the room gets quiet?
Pick one habit you would drop if you could. Write what job it is doing for you. Not what it costs. What it pays.
Why does willpower keep failing on a habit?
- A You are not disciplined enough.
- B You are trying to fire something without hiring a replacement to do its job.
- C Habits cannot be broken.
- D You have not hit bottom yet.
Write out the three parts for your habit. What sets it off, what you do, what it pays you.
Where can you actually win against a habit?
- A In the move itself, by being stronger in the moment.
- B At what sets it off, or at the payoff, because the move is the fastest part.
- C Nowhere, you just wait it out.
- D By telling everybody you quit.
When is your window? Write the day and the hours, and what is usually in your head during it.
Samson got up like he had before and did not know the Lord had left him. What does that teach?
- A God abandons people without warning.
- B Nothing dramatic happened on the day it mattered, because everything that mattered happened on the ordinary days.
- C He was never that strong to begin with.
- D He should have been more careful with her specifically.
Nobody reads this one. There is always a way out, but you have to know where the door is before the room gets hot. What is your door, and have you ever actually looked for it?
Nothing you write here goes to your officer, your school or your family.
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