Creating Good Habits
I've been thinking about how we create good habits. What makes us choose them and execute the steps to create them. For me, everything starts out with a list. When you write down what you want to achieve, seeing the goal on paper makes it real. Years ago, I wanted to pray more, start a journal, and incorporate exercise into my daily life. The spiritual goal was quite easy. I just started. I had some prayer books and picked out what I wanted to read. Over the years, I've added more prayers, readings and feel that I've met my goal that I set out so long ago. I have a list of people and intentions that are in my prayers. The journal writing was a bit trickier. I used to journal when I was a teen and young adult. I don't know why I quit. I wanted to start up again and something stopped me. Maybe I wanted perfection? Maybe I thought my writing would be boring. I really don't know. I do remember though buying the perfect journal and the perfect