Good Habits (21/100)

Day 21 - Did you know that it takes 21 days to form a habit?  It has been said that to break a bad habit you have to stop doing the act for 21 consecutive days - then the bad habit is broken.  Today I wanted to focus on the opposite side of that coin.  What good habits have I been forming in these past 21 days?

--I value that I have taken to heart a partnership with a dear friend during this challenge.  We text/communicate daily & encourage each other to lead each new day with purpose.  This daily contact with my "co-creator" has been truly enriching.
--I am impressed at my increase in blog activity - I have more posts!  I am thoroughly engaging my journal and opening my mind to creative writing, impulse writing and thought-release writing. 
--I have started reading a powerful book & look forward to adding more influential novels throughout these 100 days.  The Happiness Project has been the perfect tool along my journey. 
--Also, I check in 5x a week with my National Sales Director with Mary Kay & she provides such incite and words of wisdom for having a powerful day.  The last thing that she shared that inspired & resonated with me was a passage from a blog post from the Mary Kay Blog (which I didn't even know we had?!?)

This particular blog entry has been the something that I have been mulling over for a day or two now...

In this entry the idea is discussed that 2012 should be about losing the "wait" - we need to stop waiting for the right moment to come or the right time.  Why do we make resolutions only on Jan 1st of each year?  (Don't worry, I am guilty of it too...) She writes:

Like many others, I waited until January 1st to put my New Year resolutions into effect. On New Year’s Day, however, I had an "aha moment" and asked myself, “Why did I feel the need to wait until January to take action? Why am I postponing progress?”


Just like athletes crave the perfect weather and playing conditions to play their best game, it’s human nature to feel that we do our best under the best conditions. So often we wait for a good time, better time or even the best time to pursue a goal, change a habit, or perhaps resolve an issue. The problem is that if we wait long enough, we realize that we’ve waited too long. Did you ever notice the time frame between “It’s not the right time” and “Hmmm, I’ve waited too long” is incredibly short?


How ironic that we wait for time, yet as we know, time waits for no one. And as Benjamin Franklin said, “Lost time is never found again.” Like many of you, there have been times in my life when it seemed like a great idea to wait for the right time. In actuality, we often do our best or achieve the most under less than ideal conditions or even, at times, adverse conditions.

This is a thought that does not seem incredibly profound & yet, here I am a person who waited to make some serious changes in her way of thinking until Jan 1 came around.  It is easy for me to get into a routine and "go with the flow" ---meanwhile, I become more like a robot that an actual employee.  I share this to hopefully continue to remind myself to continue to kick it in gear and challenge myself.  A big thank you to: Mary Kay Inc.’s Chief Marketing Officer, Sheryl Adkins-Green. Sheryl for her beautiful thoughts on losing "wait."