MOTIVATION GETS YOU STARTED... and habit keeps you going.

The new year always prompts the desire for sweeping changes, big resolutions, and a blank canvas upon which you can create your next masterpiece. If only it were that easy. 

We once met someone who did something different. Instead of making unlikely (and often very hard to keep) resolutions (i.e. things you have to stick to over and over again for what can seem like an interminable 12 months), they created a list of 100 one-time things they wanted to do/accomplish in the coming year. It included movies they wanted to see, restaurants they wanted to try, seeds they wanted to plant, people and places they'd like to visit, people to whom they wanted to write a letter, dishes they'd cook, and things they had been dying to eat. One by one they'd cross them off, so by the time the next New Year rolled around they could have 100 concrete examples of efforts they made and experiences they had enjoyed in the previous 12 months. 

Motivation helps you write the list, but the practice of crossing things off it creates a habit-forming momentum that allows you to look back at the year and see that you've truly accomplished something - a lot of things.

Last week's newsletter was titled Take Off: Part 1 - in reference to our deep human need to rest, relax, restore, and rejuvenate. This week is Take Off: Part 2, meaning to not just let the time pass, but mindfully launch yourself into the New Year. Set your path and then get going. Motivation will get you started, but habit will keep you going.

Happy New Year,
Taylor & Dorothy
Co-Founders, Good Food Jobs