I am a creature of habit and I do not like to have my habits interfered with. I have a morning habit, a bedtime habit, I have work habits, and I have many energy habits. Habits establish routine, they help us navigate our lives and they give our reality a sense of stability. But habits can become ruts and when we are faced with change, our habits become the sticky point in our transcension process. 

When it’s time to change we have to make changes and to be willing to dis-integrate the stable reality our habits have created to allow for transformation. 

It isn’t easy to change a habit as you know if you have habits like I do. I laughingly call myself a creature of habit because I always do things in a specific way.  My morning routine is especially habitual. I get up, make coffee and drink one cup, then I eat breakfast, clean the kitchen, empty the dishwasher if it needs it, and then get ready for the day. Now if I do not do those things in the same order one day, my entire day feels out of whack. Are you like this too?

Sometimes our habits keep us locked into mindsets, energy patterns, and activities that are not beneficial, efficient, or productive. But it isn’t until a big problem arises that we consider altering our habits and even then, we do it under extreme protest. It isn’t our fault because as I said, habits create stability so changing our habits destabilizes our lives in some way and then we have to  learn to do things in a different way. No one likes to do that.

I am experiencing this in my life and especially in my business, for the past few months. If you follow me on facebook you know that in August my laptop crashed in a spectacular way, completely erasing the hard drive. I did not lose any data because I have multiple backup systems but I had that laptop for 5 years and I was used to it. I liked the screen, the way the keyboard worked, and I had everything on it arranged the way I liked it. I had to reconfigure another laptop and a desktop to work on and it’s OK but it has taken time for me to get used to it. 

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