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How to Achieve Your Goals – 10 Tips

January 4, 2022 By: Barb Raveling

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Do you ever set goals and fail to reach them? I used to do that all the time. The only goals I completed each year were my recreation goals! Over the years, though, I've learned some tips to help me be more successful with reaching goals. On today's ... [ Read More ]

10 Lies that Make Us Give Up on New Year’s Resolutions

December 31, 2020 By: Barb Raveling

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How do you feel when you hear the phrase, New Year's resolutions? Excited? Defeated? Skeptical? In recent years, New Year’s resolutions have gone out of style in favor of goals. The idea is that New Year’s resolutions are vague, so they don’t ... [ Read More ]

10 Tips to Help You Stop Procrastinating

November 5, 2020 By: Barb Raveling

10 Tips to Help You Stop Procrastinating

Do you ever find yourself putting off a dreaded task for weeks or even months or years? I have been known to procrastinate a 10-minute job for ten years. Thankfully, God is slowly changing me in this area. Here are ten tips I’ve been using to help me ... [ Read More ]

11 Tips for Making Decisions Peacefully

March 3, 2020 By: Barb Raveling

Do you ever agonize over decisions for days or even years? Do you wait until the last possible moment to make the decision so you can keep your options open? Do decisions stress you out? If so, today's episode of the Christian Habits Podcast will ... [ Read More ]

How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed – 5 Steps

October 22, 2019 By: Barb Raveling

Do you ever feel like you have a million things to do, but you only have time and energy for about three things? Do you often ignore the important things in life because you're too busy doing the million things in life? If so, you're in the same boat ... [ Read More ]

New Book! Freedom from Procrastination Bible Study

October 16, 2019 By: Barb Raveling

Freedom from Procrastination

Do you ever feel like you have a million things to do, but you're not doing any of them? Do you make a to-do list and then promptly lose it or ignore it? Do you suspect you'll never get caught up? If you're a procrastinator, you know how hopeless ... [ Read More ]

How to Stop Thinking About Work All the Time

November 14, 2018 By: Barb Raveling

How to Stop Thinking About Work

I just finished writing the first draft of a procrastination Bible study, so I've been thinking about work a lot lately. How to make myself work and how to make myself stop thinking about work. Because here's the thing: just because we think ... [ Read More ]

How to Pursue Goals Without Obsessing Over Them

January 16, 2017 By: Barb Raveling

How to Pursue Goals without Obsessing Over Them

One of the hardest things for me as a writer is to figure out how to pursue goals without obsessing over them. Do you ever have that problem? Maybe you're trying to lose weight. But you find yourself constantly obsessing over calories or ... [ Read More ]

7 Lies That Make Us Check Emails Too Often

April 11, 2016 By: Barb Raveling

7 LIes That Make Us Check Emails Too Often

I still remember the day my dad told me about email. He had just gotten an email account and he said I should get one. It will make my life easier, he said, because you can answer them right away. Oh, those days of innocence! Little did we ... [ Read More ]

6 Things I Learned About Pursuing Goals

January 8, 2016 By: Barb Raveling

Do you ever wish pursuing goals were just a little bit easier? Less struggle? Less work? Less failure? Whether your goal is to write a book, finish college, break free from a stronghold, or lose 50 pounds, we’re all in the same boat. We’re trying to ... [ Read More ]

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