Consistent effort creates change. It's empowering!

I have decided that ‘consistency’ is my 2014 intention. It is easy to make New Years Resolutions and set goals, that is the fun part. Dreaming, planning, hoping and building high expectations is exciting but then you have to turn up and make it happen. So I have decided its all about consistency.

There is a resistance to change that can really hold us back. New habits take a lot of self-control and energy to establish at first. We can talk ourselves out of just about anything, as excuses are readily available. The trick is to move beyond the ‘I don’t want to today,’ to ‘I may not want to but I’m going to do it anyway.’ This applies to things like eating well, exercising more regularly, responding in new ways to difficult relationships and even to meditation.

I’d like to meditate every morning but when I wake early its easy to curl up and talk myself into a bit more sleep. This morning the word ‘consistency’ came to mind and I went into a spare room in the house, lit a candle, stretched by body for a while and moved into stillness. The red sun rose and filled the room with warm light, so when I opened my eyes I felt calm, steady and inspired, ready to enjoy Saturday with the family.

If you want to start a new habit or get any negative thinking out of the way, have a look at the book, ‘Change your thinking,’ by Sarah Edelman Phd. I am also inspired by the consistency of the people I see at the gym regularly, the business owners and employees in town opening their shops every day, the parents pushing prams, the sports men and women. Consistant effort is all around. Fitness, success and happiness isn't falling on peoples laps,  they do what it takes to live a great life and they don't choose the easy road. I admire that..

My photo today is a shot of last nights stunning sunset. We were watching the tennis and behind the television are big windows looking out to the garden, which started reflecting the orange light of the sun. This is a clear indication of a special sunset so I grabbed my camera and headed down the driveway. A powerful ball of orange, dominated the horizon and dropped very quickly behind the silhouettes of the gum trees. It took my breath away.