Creating Habits

There are some areas where I find it easy to have discipline and to create healthy habits. I meditate daily and practice yoga regularly. I am able to keep up a consistent running program. I eat well. There are other areas where I struggle - one is writing daily. I want to, I know it will challenge and humble me and help me grow...  and then I don't prioritize it so it doesn't happen.

In our practice, the lesson is:

• It takes 40 days to create a habit
• 90 days to confirm it
• 120 days to make it a part of who you are
• 1000 days to master it

I'm drawing the line in the sand and committing to 40 days of daily writing. It's humbling because I have students who struggle with the 40 day commitment for a yoga/meditation practice that I find to be so easy. I want to explore this challenge within me. I know this practice will help me become a better student and teacher. I find my meditation practice to be easy because I have experienced tremendous value from it, I have grown and transformed significantly and I don't want to go back to how I was before I found this practice. 

I am stepping out with this declaration publicly so that I make this commitment to myself and experience the value in sharing my thoughts, recipes and musings here. It's been on my mind for weeks and I'm tired of allowing myself to have excuses about it. Let this journey begin!