The Process

I was in yoga class this morning--we were all challenged by a new pose. After 11 years of practicing yoga, there are still so many challenges which present themselves on a regular basis. Yoga is such a mirror of life...I am always refreshed at the insights I receive.

The teacher said, at that critical moment in which all of us were starting to struggle a bit and take things a little too seriously, "it's okay if you don't get it today, you have the rest of your life to practice yoga". That was a great AHA moment.

Why can't we all just enjoy the process...relax into life instead of coming up against it. So what if we don't get it right on the first try, at least we tried. As Michael Jordon says, "A failure fails once a successful person fails many times". I think that's brilliant.

The fact that we tried is so key because it is better to try something than to be afraid and try nothing. As Zig Ziglar said, "You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great". I feel so fortunate to have gained this valuable perspective. I am loving the process. Things don't always go the way I'd like them to, but as long as I am enjoying myself along the way---isn't that all that matters?