Consistency is hard! As human beings we struggle to establish rhythms for doing the things we ought to do repeatedly. There are bookshelves at your favorite bookstore full of readings on habit and behavior change to help address this problem of consistency. Despite our best attempts we still find ourselves in situations we don’t want to be in, doing things we know we shouldn’t be doing and failing to uphold the commitments we make to others and to ourselves.

We’re all yearning for a different way. We don’t really even know what that way is, where it will take us or what it will be like when we finally take it. We’re confident it will be better, but not sure how or why. What are we searching for? Why does it seem to be so elusive? Where do we even begin?