For 8 weeks, I have been making a habit about teaching about habits. I’m reminded that life is not just about what happens to us (I talked about this in my Job series last fall), but it is also about what we make happen. Good habits are decisions we make and steps we take to help us get where we want to go in life. So I need to ask myself, and YOU need to ask YOURSELF… where do I want to go? Good habits help us engage with the Creator in becoming greater at life, marriage, growth, health, faith, parenting, money, and more. Habits are powerful things, and when used right can bring great benefit. In a very real sense, we form our habits and then they form us. The Bible is full of wonderful habits that can impact your life and family and faith in wonderful ways.
Here’s my reading list for this series. I encourage you to check it out.
Books about Personal Habits:
- Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Heath
- The Power of Habit: Why We do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want by Peter Bregman
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey (and The 8th Habit)
- The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John Maxwell
Books about Organizational Habits:
- Good to Great By Jim Collins (and Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fall, and Built to Last)
- The Advantage Patrick Lencioni
- The Power of Alignment by George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky
- Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal
Books about Spiritual Habits:
- A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders by Reggie McNeal
- Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
- The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
- Honest to God by Bill Hybels
- The Navigator by Robert Foster
- Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
- The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard
- The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg
