The secret to getting things done... on your yoga mat and in life

I've always been a dreamer but, until recently, not so great with being a doer.  And sticking with something...  hmmmm... yeah, not so much.  Let me put it this way: I'm that person that always has to leave that last dish unwashed.
  

Last year, we did a huge renovation on our house. Talk about a learning experience!  One of the best things I got from that experience (other than a beautiful new house) was learning how to really get things done.

Most of you probably already know this, but it was a revelation to me... the secret to getting things done is just to do it; and keep doing it.  Now, I understood this on my yoga mat but somehow never made that small leap to understanding that I could bring it to the rest of my life. If you want a daily practice, you get on your mat no matter what.  If you want to learn a pose, you just keep doing it at varying levels of depth and success until you find the form. If you want to experience the benefits and mysteries of a pose, you hold it... longer than you think you can. The house renovation was just like that. With each room I understood the process better and I definitely held that pose longer than I thought I could. And I gained in soooo many ways.

So getting things done? How do I do it now? I still dream and there is alot of serendipity that comes as a result. I think that's important. But I also make my outcome goal important, learn all I can, focus my life around it, keep doing it longer than I think I can even when I shake, and you know? Shit gets done! More than ever before!

Then I take a vacation :)  Savasana is, after all, the most important pose in any complete practice session.

So, the latest thing I am getting done?  Well, I have multiple projects of course, but the main focus at this moment is learning to use wordpress and migrating this blog on over there.  I will be holding this pose, sticking with it and getting. it. done.

*Breathe, relax into it, you are capable of more than you think.*