Happiness Challenge – Support

Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT

I decided to practice yoga today while fixing the wall heater. As you can tell it was a bit cold in the office so I was able to do triple duty by doing the happiness yoga practice.

I decided to practice yoga today while fixing the wall heater. As you can tell it was a bit cold in the office so I was able to do triple duty by doing the happiness yoga practice (get warm, fix the heater and do yoga).

I’m working on being enthusiastically engaged today with doing the happiness yoga flow. I have forty more days left of this.  Yet my co-worker Megan just reminded me, “isn’t the idea of this to create a new habit so you have a lifetime of doing this?”  Thanks for the support, Megan. She is suggesting a new reward system – not just the end of the forty more days, but a lifetime reward of what having a daily practice of yoga can do for me.  And she doesn’t even like yoga.

Let me take a couple minutes to reflect how I like to enjoy yoga.  I enjoy doing various yoga poses around the house.  I like doing breathing exercises throughout the day.  I like being more mindful of my body as I do various activities – like walking the dogs.  All of these I’ve learned by doing a deliberate yoga practice.

What I specifically resist is setting aside time to take out the yoga mat and do my practice.  I know wherever I have resistance is a learning moment.  I’m a forward momentum person.  As soon as I get up the dogs want to go out – so walking the dogs is always the first thing on my to do list.  Then it’s breakfast time for all of us.  Next,  I usually have some work related tantalizing tid bit to tend to or some writing I’m working on that is always so captivating and interesting.  You see, all of these things seem like quite valid “to do’s” and they have their natural rhythm in my day.  Doing the happiness yoga flow has not found it’s way into the natural rhythm of my day, yet. I have another 4o days to figure out how to make getting out my yoga mat and doing the happiness yoga flow just what I do everyday.

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