Routine

First Forget inspiration, Habit is more dependable.

Habit will Sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.

-Octavia E. Butler

That quote is from one of my favorite authors.  It had to do with writing but I think it can be applied to lifestyle change.   Especially now, at the beginning of the year many feel the need to make grand changed in our lives.  We make the cliché New Year’s resolutions, the promise that we will change starting with the first day of the New Year.  For some of us it is good, we are a determined and we reach the goal we wish to attain.  For others and I am a part of this group, we are good for a time, but we lose focus, lose track, we burn out.  Then we complain about not being able to accomplish anything.  Forming habits takes time, we don’t see when they happen, changing habit is harder and takes time because we are breaking from what we normally do.  

Today I don’t feel like typing.  Today I doubt the title has anything to do with the words I am going to post up here.  But I am doing it to change myself to making a daily write and posting it up on my health blog.  I should be this good to all my blogs.  The 100 days is lucky enough to be the first getting this treatment.  I wish I could say that I am different, that I am not waiting for an auspicious time. But I am waiting for Sunday, January 11, 2015.  I needed a sustainable, attainable plan.  I couldn’t just wake up at 5:00 am in the morning and decided to exercise and eat differently.  I could but eventually I would stop. I would go back to habits and be happy I was there.   This may have been written before but this week is a prep week.  I look over the meal plans, exercise routines and other healthy advice and figure out where they will fit into my life.  Some small changes are great but it will take time before they can be applied to my real life.  Some changes will seem odd but fit with my modified lifestyle.  For example, I would rather drink oatmeal than eat it.  In this day and age that may not seem as strange as it once did to me six years ago.  Before the smoothie became such a thing and health alternative.

I think for this blog I will add a temporary deadline.  From now on and next week I will attempt to have a post in by 10:00am, Eastern Standard Time.  I think this will help me with writing and help me form a working habit.  I will also be looking at subjects to write about. So each post won’t be about intangible things hopes, dreams and plans.