The Process of Taking Ownership, part 2

This is part 2 to the content I released last week. I’m sharing the 4 Steps to Taking Ownership. As a review, here are the first two:

Step 1: Recognition

You’ll never take ownership for something you can’t see.

Step 2: Admission + Confession

Admission involves naming what you have done without making excuses for what you have done.

Step 3: Build the necessary structure.

structure – the way that something is built, arranged, or organized

Lie: Having structure removes our freedom.

Truth: Without the required structure, we miss out on freedom.

We’ve got to get clear on what definition of freedom we want to live in. So many of us believe that freedom = doing whatever we want to. But what if freedom is being able to live the life we were designed for? As you think about taking ownership of your character and who you want to become, ask this question around any topic in your life:

 How much structure do you need?

Build as much structure as it takes to gain your freedom.

Step 4: Engage in practices that bring freedom and growth.

What do you need to practice abstaining from, if only for a season? 

What do you need to practice engaging in, if only for a season? 

What begins initially as a discipline can, over time, become as natural as breathing. Imagine the good things that seem so foreign to you now becoming so habituated in you that you do them without even thinking about it.

​​habituate – make or become accustomed or used to something

What are the practices you would love to see habituated into your own life, even if they currently feel very foreign to you?

When you begin to take ownership for your life, now you can actually go and make the changes that are needed.