How to Change Your Life, Part 3: Something Happens
But then it happens. Of course, not suddenly. But it turns out that little bit by little bit something has happened.
I realized just this week that while I’m not quite raring to go out and do our 1 to 1.5 hour bike loop—I’m close to eager. There is almost no resistance (physical, mental, or emotional). That was a shock to me—that after 8 months of steady work during which it felt like I would never get beyond cranky, to find that the density of the resistance—which has really been a lack of freedom to do what I really wanted to do—has in large part dissolved. 8 months—I could never have imagined that it would take 8 months just to get to “emotional positivity” about something. But some things are persistant and we can sometimes be frail in the face of that persistance.
This is why we need to understand our role in changing those things we do not want, and why we need to understand consistency, congruency and alignment in our behaviors. It also reinforced for me that sometimes, with help, I can use the 4 “easy” steps to get passed a really big hurdle.
If you can’t do it all at least:
Do the right thing.
Then, when you can, say the right thing.
Then, when you can, think the right thing.
Then, when you can, feel the right thing.
Easy as pie!
Ever tried to be really good at pie?
