Day 4 - Creativity in the "Box" of Habit

“Your pelvis is a bowl. And it’s filled with the most wondrous liquid of light. Glide that bowl over your legs without spilling a drop.” Try as I might, my “bowl” kept getting stuck over my right hip....

Day 3 – Freedom and Choices in Practice Habits

​The chipped black kitchen timer ticked loudly, mechanically, incessantly from it’s perch on top of the piano. Playing a few desultory notes, I looked up at it balefully. God, I hated that thing. We’d...

Day 2 - Habits that Soothe

​I grew up in a 1950’s split-level tract house. It had a staircase up and another staircase down in the center of the house, leading to the bedrooms and the “Rec” room respectively. Today we’d call it...

Day 1 – Habituated Behavior Starts Early

It was a cool, crisp fall day in New York. My classmates and I eagerly gathered around our kindergarten teacher, Miss Coleman, in the story corner of our classroom. It was clear she had something really...

Exploring Habits – The Power of Habitual Behavior

It’s early in the morning, and I’m standing in front of the bathroom sink. I’m surrounded by the various pills, crèmes, powders and miscellaneous things that sometime in my life I decided were necessary...