Happiness Challenge – Habits
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT
I’m taking my knitting gig on the road so now I have my hat designs on my iPhone. This is the design for the current hat I’m working on. Everyday I am either creating or reinforcing a habit – I like this hat habit – for now.
This is day three of me doing the happiness yoga flow every morning. Considering I created this yoga flow, I know how to do it. So I can do it anywhere . But doing it every day, well I don’t always do it everyday – but now I am – even today as a travel day where I’m in Juneau at a hotel waiting for my plane to leave in the afternoon. I did yoga in jeans and my hiking boots – just to see what it would be like. I’m very much enjoying creating this new habit The new habits I’m creating here though are not just doing the happiness yoga flow every morning, but it’s also approaching everything I do with enthusiastic engagement as it makes whatever I’m doing so much more energizing. All I need to do the happiness yoga flow is the action of doing it – wherever I am, whatever I’m wearing – yoga mat, or no yoga mat.
A few weeks ago I was watching the movie on Yogananda. As I was doing yoga today, I remembered a line from that movie – something about how practicing yoga does not require you to give up anything – you may over time choose to only do those habits that help you. Being in this hotel last night, while setting up the computer onto the TV to watch a show from Amazon Prime, the TV was on a channel with a TV Christian Minister. In the past, I would have had a negative perception of this type of programming. I took a minute last night to see this show through a new perspective (this was spontaneous and not forced). What I saw was a man attempting to bring comfort to others through his religious beliefs. I saw a shade of goodness I had not noticed before. There are all types of things in life that can annoy – my new habit of enthusiastic engagement – it’s taking me in some directions I had not anticipated. I much prefer seeing goodness of what is going on around me rather than railing about what is wrong or bad about it.
