Day ONE!

Joanna's Post: Okay. So Kristi and I are going to do 30 days of yoga. I have also started meditating everyday. I just bought a timer so that I don't have to use my phone anymore. I have been thinking lately that I have to stop looking for external guidance and validation in my life and start being my own guide. No one is going to make me happy. No one can tell me what the right thing to do is for me. I am the person that knows me best. Even if sometimes I don't feel like I know myself at all. I am still the most knowledgeable person about me. I have been wanting to make yoga a regular part of my daily life for a long time. But there are always excuses to be made. I am so sick of hearing myself whine. about how I'm confused or unhappy or not productive enough. or that I don't know what to do with my life. This life is my doing. If I don't decide what to do with it, no one will. Waiting around for a purpose is useless, I think we need to decide to do something for awhile, see if it makes us happy, and if it doesn't, try something else. And this is what I intend to do. I am almost done school, I need to start supporting myself, because being completely supported by my father makes me feel like a parasite. I think that I will start working as a designer and do music in my free time as much as possible with the intention of eventually making a switch. But i really feel that supporting myself financially will help me feel like I am capable of being responsible for myself and my well-being. What does this have to do with yoga? I want to start building positive habits. Yoga and meditation, everyday are where I'm going to start. I hope that the two will help me feel less overwhelmed and more calm and confident to make important choices and to become the person that I want to be. The joyful person I want to be. I am getting there, I can feel it. Kristi and I are each going to go to classes together every weekday morning and on our own on the weekends. Taking one weekend day off per week is optional. We will also each, seperately, write in this blog everyday to document our progress. How we feel, what issues arise in yoga, meditation and life. Thirty days from now is Friday, April 11th. At this point I think we should take stock of how far we've come and set new goals.