Weight Weight Just Love Me – Persistence Pays – Day 20
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT
Congrats to Jean and Evelyn. After taking my Happy Aging Yoga retreat last year, they both decided to become Registered Yoga Teachers. And now they are learning how to teach Happy Aging Yoga using our Happy Aging Yoga Mats.
I’m starting to realize just why it takes 66 days (or even longer) to create a new habit. The initial idea is only a infinitesimal fraction of what it takes to implement it. I’ve learned this lesson time and time and time again through the years with my entrepreneurial pursuits. So, it really should come as no surprise to me the level of persistence required in undertaking anything new – like this new habit of learning how to love myself more.
Loving myself more also means putting more effortless energy into those projects I love as well. I’ve been teaching yoga for the past 18 months and created a way to use my accelerated learning techniques to help beginners quickly learn and do yoga in a way that helps them age with more grace comfort and ease. We call it Happy Aging Yoga. I worked with a medical artist over the past year to create plump silhouettes doing the various yoga poses I teach in my classes for folks less inclined to do yoga. And I worked with my graphic designer to lay out these silhouettes to demonstrate the various yoga flows students master in our yoga retreats. Then I found a way to print these various yoga flows on a yoga mat and tested out using the yoga mats in a two day yoga retreat format. Next, I assembled a crew to help me make instructional videos for each yoga flow on the mat.
It’s been a long haul and at times I got rather discouraged as everything seemed to take a lot longer than I’d prefer. Today though saw the culmination of all that effort because I got a renewed burst of energy for this project. We now have all the elements for selling our Happy Aging Yoga program to the public and launched our online store to do just that. The next step is promoting our innovative program to learn yoga as a way to age better. We have a big three month promotional campaign starting with Healthy Living Magazine in November. Yet I know we have only just begun. Learning how to love this more as part of loving myself more is giving me the energy to keep going – and wow, well that is just AMAZING. Who knew this loving myself more would translate over to a super extra boost of enthusiasm for those other things I love in life as well.
Kate’s comment: I cannot tell you how excited I am that the Happy Aging Yoga mats are now officially for sale. I use mine for warm up and wind-down. The inclusions of breathing instructions help calm me down and bring me back to my center. I think these things are revolutionary for an individual’s yoga practice.
