It’s amazing what we can accomplish if we just put one foot in front of the other and take some action. Turns out, most of the time it just takes persistence and steady movement. When I first started blogging 200 days ago, my goal was to blog 100 blogs in 100 days. Then along the way I got the idea that 365 blogs in 365 days would be a worthy goal, so here I am at 200 and it seems like blogging for 365 days just might happen. I just might get to 365, one blog at a time.

Today I practiced yoga for a little over an hour. I was a regular yoga practitioner for over ten years and then I fell out of taking regular classes for a few years and now am getting back into it, especially now that I’ve set a goal of running a half marathon in the spring. I’m always amazed at the “memory” that my body holds for the yoga poses. Most people who have practiced yoga as long as I have are either teachers themselves now or very advanced yogis who think nothing of popping up into a handstand or the scorpion pose at the end of their practice. Whereas even though I always feel better after I practice yoga, I haven’t made the routine a regular part of what I do everyday, at least not yet, and not to the degree that I would like to. But I know that one step at a time, one pose at a time, one breath at a time can get me a heckuva lot closer to having a healthy yoga practice then either wishing I would do it and not or beating myself up.

Tomorrow I’m going to unwrap all nine of the little origami people that I made last week and re-fold them up adding the extra fold that I had forgotten about to make them skinnier, then I’ll move on to using the razor knife to cut out little bitty 1/8 of an inch and 1/4 inch chairs and tables. In the real scheme of things will this little art project have a big impact my life? Probably not, but it’s one more thing that I can give myself the feeling of following through on by doing one fold at a time, one cut at a time, one piece at a time.

Just for right now, what is one small step that you can take towards something that you’ve really wanted to do but haven’t until now?

Drum rolls please…..