Kristina's Journey to Life

An interesting point came up this evening while at work. It was a very busy night, and I was there later than usual, so I would be getting home much later than usual. I still had my blog for today due, and while I took a moment and realized the time, and the blog still needed to be written, I had the back chat come up of, "you could always skip it and start over." There was a bit of energy attached to it, because I 'trusted' it in a way - like I, for that moment it came up, allowed myself to actually consider it. - I entertained the idea The next moment however I knew I would not give in, I would write the blog, and stick to this commitment , so I stopped my participation in that idea. What is interesting is that even 28 days into this process of creating a new habit of daily blogging, there is still a part of me, as revealed in the back chat. that wants to give excuses as to why I don't follow through. This has been a situation I've allowed many times...

Today is day 21 of blogging - 21 consecutive days of a new habit, which I've heard is the amount of time it takes to create a new habit. And so it's done. Well is it? I have walked a process of blogging for 21 days before, maybe twice in the past 5 years, and one thing someone said to me once was, "if you stop writing after your 21 days, you have failed." This is quite interesting if you take a closer look at it... 21 days is the commitment you make, yet if you stop then, what are you saying? It's like a condition - I will only do this for 21 days, because 21 days is the limit I've set for myself. But why not go beyond it? Push beyond the point you've already said 'is enough' and see who you are? I've been looking at whether or not I would continue after my 30 days of blogging is up - who I would be at that day 31. Would I continue to write consistently? Would I stop and revert back to my old pattern of mostly not writing a blog? For me ...