So here’s a question: how do you maintain a spiritual practice — let alone blog about it — when life is, well, crazy? Let’s figure that out together.
I started last week with lofty meditation plans. It went so well the previous week! I really enjoyed it. So my plan was to increase the amount of time to see if I could find the threshold — when I wanted more versus when I started getting antsy.
Monday, I set myself up for 15 minutes. All good. Could’ve gone longer.
Tuesday, I tried 20 minutes. It could have just been the day, but I was definitely ready to be done when the timer buzzed.
Wednesday, back to 15 minutes. Could have done more.
That brings me to Thursday, when my 3-year-old was sent home at 9:20 a.m. with the flu. Let’s just say I haven’t done any spiritual or blog work since.
Between caring for a sick child, doing countless loads of laundry, trips to urgent care, caring for my healthy (at the moment 🤞) child, keeping my 10k-a-day step streak, and squeezing in the work that actually pays me, there just isn’t any more time.
But here’s the thing: there is never enough time.
Two months ago, I was crazy busy preparing to host Thanksgiving. One month ago, I was prepping for my son’s birthday and Christmas. Before that, I was busy at work launching a new project. There is always something.
Recently, something popped up on one of my feeds that addressed this very topic. If you devote 18 minutes a day to something — a new skill, getting fit, reading, blogging, meditating — it doesn’t matter what it is. After a year, you’ll have spent 110 hours working on that thing.
Not only will you have made progress toward your goal, you’ll have created a new habit.
Consistency. Showing up. No more excuses.
Eighteen minutes a day. That I can do.
Is there anything you want to devote 18 minutes a day to this year?
So I’m starting there. Eighteen minutes. No pressure. No perfection. Let’s see what happens this year.