Change

A few days ago I stumbled upon a pretty rad video I want to share with you!  Be ready because it is awesome.

Now the reason I share this video is because Change is awesome.  I think it is really cool for someone to learn a new skill and to see the progression happen before your eyes.  But more so to illustrate a concept I have learned myself...  But I somehow seem to forget about it when it happens.  Change happens to us whether we notice it or not.  And I want to shed some light on changing for the better.

Last year i decided  to learn the guitar... Now I know what you are thinking, "Oh the guitar! Everyone tries to learn that".  Yes, yes, you are correct everyone attempts to learn the guitar and fails as I did in high school.  I failed. Why?  Because I didn't even try.  It was just an idea.  It never became a habit.  About a year ago I bought my own Johnson guitar for about 150$.  It came with its own case which I was pretty stoked about.  I knew nothing about what guitar to buy or what made a nice guitar.  But it was a start.  I began by looking up youtube videos of simple chords and tried to copy "how to plays" online.  I really made an attempt.  And I did it almost everyday.  Eventually i got a teacher and began to truly learn the guitar.  And it became a habit when ever i sat by my bed to just grab my guitar and dabble.  Looking back at myself starting compared to how much I know with a guitar now.  Its incredible.

Now by no means am I actually good at the guitar but I can do it.  I learned and how did that happen?  I practiced.  And it became a habit that I enjoyed.  Now think about every single thing you have always wanted to accomplish?  Workouts?  Running?  Guitar?  Eat healthy?  Read?  Learn a new skill?  Whatever it is.. We have all been there.  We start out thinking, "Sweet, I am going to learn and or do something new!"  We get all hyped up.  We get super pumped.  Then what?  We always do it that first day.  That first time.  We kill it.  We go hard.  Then the next day not so much.  And then about a week later we go back to the exact same habits and activities we did last week.  So it all comes down to habits right?  Change is not simply an idea.  Its repetition.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

So here is my challenge.  Choose a habit you want incorporated into your daily life.  Now do your best this week to spend 10 minutes a day for one week developing your new habit.  That is it.  You can do more.  But start there and see what happens.  And I will do the same.