Evolving and growing as a person requires updated and new skills. One of the best ways to introduce new skills is through habit. Change your habits and you change your world, or something like that.
It is challenging to introduce new habits. One of the ways I've been successful with new habits is by connecting them to existing habits. For example, I'm able to maintain a meditation practice by making it part of a larger lunch habit - leave the office, go home (or wherever) have a quick bite to eat and then provide myself the space and time to be meditative. This has worked well because my lunch habit was strong; I wanted to be out of the office to provide a break in the day. What better way to improve the outcome of that break than by introducing another supportive habit.
My intuition and experience tell me that it is easier to protect my habits in the morning. My resilience is stronger in the morning, and the habits I've created for early morning are important to me, thus, worthy of protection. Anything new I want to introduce will be best served by attaching to existing morning habits.
Friday, May 25, 2018
Monday, January 1, 2018
Letting Go
Joy is the elixir of a happy and productive life. Worry robs you of the opportunity to have joy - it creates a negative emotional state that darkens all that you see.
For me, letting go simply means understanding what to accept and what to work to change.
"Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference." Robert Fulghum
"Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference." Robert Fulghum
Minus Fahrenheit
It's cold.
There are no degrees to be had outdoors. In fact, there are minus degrees outside, so you start at a degree deficit just to get to 0 degrees Fahrenheit. It was -6 degrees F when I woke up this morning.
What woke me up was my wife telling me the pipes froze in our upstairs bathroom. We have lived in this house (built in 1920) for three winters and in two of those our hot water feed to the second floor has frozen. Not much to do but apply heat and wait. Hopefully no burst pipes.
It's really cold.
There are no degrees to be had outdoors. In fact, there are minus degrees outside, so you start at a degree deficit just to get to 0 degrees Fahrenheit. It was -6 degrees F when I woke up this morning.
What woke me up was my wife telling me the pipes froze in our upstairs bathroom. We have lived in this house (built in 1920) for three winters and in two of those our hot water feed to the second floor has frozen. Not much to do but apply heat and wait. Hopefully no burst pipes.
It's really cold.
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