That's what we've been doing, creating new habits and getting rid of old ones that no longer serve.
One of the most beneficial habits we're creating as a family is a regular yoga practice. We did somewhat of a trial last year and saw the benefits. Our yoga instructor took a sabbatical, well, she had a baby and spent a few months bonding before restarting classes just after the new year. We've been going twice a week this month and have every intention of continuing as long as our yoga guru, Anna continues to guide us. It would be nice to develop our own practice at home but there is something about going to class to practice with others that we don't get on our own.
In addition to the the regular yoga practice, Bill has joined me in taking morning walks. We walk a up and down a hill near the house. I started off doing five laps. It was a workout but doable. The second week I added a lap. That week I missed a day due to an early appointment at the local clinic. The following day I doubled my workout to make up for the day I missed. Finding this workout again, doable I continued with the double workout the following days. Bill had joined me a couple of times but when we found I'd doubled the workout he decided to do it regularly as well. If I could do it, so could he.
Thinking man that he is, he needed to know how far we were walking. He and Callista went out with a measuring tape to find out. We were walking almost a kilometer. After our walk the following day I realized counting off twelve laps was going to get old quick. Back down the trail we went with the tape measure to find out how far we had to go to make our walk a full kilometer and keep it at 6 laps. It would have been easy to add the flat part of the walk we don't usually count but we chose to go further down the hill which meant more of an incline on the return trip and a better work out.
We're seeing benefits from both our new habits in less than a month!
