Did you try any of the action steps from previous chapters that you did not try before?

CHAPTER 19 - BORED?

1.  Let's reflect on the bolded message at the start of the chapter :
  •  "To say we are bored at any moment in our lives is a massive insult to God, but to say we are bored at Mass takes the insult to a whole other level."
 
2.  Why is mass considered boring? 
  • Did you consistently feel this way growing up? 
  • Do you feel this way now?
 
3.  If we or someone else is bored at mass regularly, how can we change that?
 
CHAPTER 20 - LEARNING TO LISTEN
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  1. This chapter starts off with a great sentence "The hardest lessons to learn are the ones we think we already learned."  Let's reflect and discuss this.  Which lessons are hardest for us? 

  2. Do we take time to listen to ourselves?  Those around us?  To God?  How can we become better listeners?

  3. Do you already follow the steps to being an active listener?

  4. We are often passive, as Mathew Kelly points out.  How can we become more active?
CHAPTER 21 - THE POWER OF HABITS

  1. Let's examine some of the questions that Matthew Kelly poses to us:
  • Do you know what the negative patterns are in your life?
  • Do you keep spending time with people even though you know they are not helping you become the best-version-of-yourself?
  • Do you worry about things you have no control over?
  • Which other questions really resonated with you?
  • Which other questions really resonated with you?

     2.  Mathew asks what are some of the positive patterns in our lives? 
  • ​​Do we witness positive patterns in others that we wish we would adopt? 
  • Which ones?

      3.  Did you do the action step to write down your three best habits and the three habits that you need
            to change?  Was one set harder to identify than the other?  Why or why not?
CHAPTER 22 - HOW MANY SUNDAYS LEFT?
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  1. How many Sundays do you have left?
     
  2. What are things you do to ensure that you do not waste a day?
CHAPTER 23 - ATTEMPTED MURDER

  1. In which ways do you see yourself/your friends and family/society not accepting truths?

  2. How do we alter our perspective so we can acknowledge these truths?
     
  3. Reflect  on the action step.  Why do we lie? 
CHAPTER 24 - HUNGRY

  1. What are we hungry for?
     
  2. Reflect on Mathew Kelly's question "What is the purpose of hunger?"
     
  3. Is hunger good or bad?  Does God speak to you through your hunger?
An interesting reflection on the gift of Hunger!