This, from Julia Cameron:
“It is my belief that any regular practice is a good practice. It is my belief that if you bicycle, it will teach you. If you walk, it will teach you. If you bake or write poems, it will teach you. What will teach you is the “it” that you do because that “it” is doing you: doing you a favor, doing you a service, doing you a good turn, a grace, a job.”
It doesn’t really matter what your own particular “it” is. The key word is regular. Whatever it is you do, if you do it regularly, you are able to form generalities that can be compared. You can note improvements and differences. You can monitor growth that builds upon previous skills. You can watch yourself change and feel yourself grow. Without regularity this wouldn’t be possible.
You have to be careful though, because it can work against you. The bad things you do regularly will work to tear you down. You can feel yourself lose things you should be gaining and gain things you should be losing. In either case, it’s the regularity that causes any change at all.
I have always believed that it’s what you do everyday that counts and makes the differences in our lives – good or bad. Fill in this blank: I ______ regularly. I have seen changes in_______. Are your changes positive or negative? Make your life better by examining the things you do everyday and consider the changes they cause in you. Consider things like diet, exercise, meditation, hobbies, art, writing, cooking, gardening, running, walking the dog, drinking, medication, sleeping, sitting, watching TV, computer time, working, etc. Want to change yourself in some way? Tweak your life by changing whatever it is you do regularly – that’s where the force of true change lies.
And so, as another day goes by, ignite positive change with the little “its” you do everyday, and….I have written.
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