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“People who have better control of their attention, emotions, and actions are better off almost any way you look at it. They are happier and healthier. Their relationships are more satisfying and last longer. They make more money and go further in their careers. They are better able to manage stress, deal with conflict, and overcome adversity. They even live longer. When pit against other virtues, willpower comes out on top. Self-control is a better predictor of academic success than intelligence (take that, SATs), a stronger determinant of effective leadership than charisma (sorry, Tony Robbins), and more important for marital bliss than empathy. If we want to improve our lives, willpower is not a bad place to start.” McGonigal Ph.D., Kelly ( ). --The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It (p. 12). “People who have better control of their attention, emotions, and actions are better off almost any way you look at it. They are happier and healthier. Their relationships are more satisfying and last longer. They make more money and go further in their careers. They are better able to manage stress, deal with conflict, and overcome adversity. They even live longer. When pit against other virtues, willpower comes out on top. Self-control is a better predictor of academic success than intelligence (take that, SATs), a stronger determinant of effective leadership than charisma (sorry, Tony Robbins), and more important for marital bliss than empathy. If we want to improve our lives, willpower is not a bad place to start.” McGonigal Ph.D., Kelly ( ). --The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It (p. 12).

& Self Control

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. (Proverbs 25:28)

& Self Control But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

& Self Control For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love (2 Peter 1:5-7)

& Self Control But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:27)

& Self Control Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (1 Corinthians 7:5)

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More Self Control Ask God for more willpower

More Self Control My Next Step today is: I would like to ask God to help me have more willpower. My Next Step today is: I would like to ask God to help me have more willpower. Ask God for more willpower

More Self Control Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body

& Self Control 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Cor 6:19- 20) 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Cor 6:19- 20)

More Self Control My Next Step today is: I commit to take care of my body by­­­­­­­­­­ _____ My Next Step today is: I commit to take care of my body by­­­­­­­­­­ _____ Take care of your body

More Self Control Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body Remember the end-goal Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body Remember the end-goal

More Self Control Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body Remember the end-goal Find self-controlled friends Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body Remember the end-goal Find self-controlled friends

& Self Control Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. (Proverbs 13:20)

More Self Control Find Self Controlled Friends

More Self Control Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body Remember the end-goal Find self-controlled friends Embrace God’s forgiveness Ask God for more willpower Take care of your body Remember the end-goal Find self-controlled friends Embrace God’s forgiveness

& Self Control 2 Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” (Matt 9:2, NIV) 2 Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” (Matt 9:2, NIV)

& Self Control 3 At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, “This fellow is blaspheming!” (Matt 9:3, NIV)

The guilt trap

The research The worse a person felt about how much they drank the night before, the more they drank that night and the next. The guilt was driving them back to the bottle. The worse a person felt about how much they drank the night before, the more they drank that night and the next. The guilt was driving them back to the bottle.

The research We may think that guilt motivates us to correct our mistakes, but it’s just one more way that feeling bad leads to giving in. Guilt is only effective when it leads us to God’s forgiveness. We may think that guilt motivates us to correct our mistakes, but it’s just one more way that feeling bad leads to giving in. Guilt is only effective when it leads us to God’s forgiveness.

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