The Habit That Started It All

I took a picture of my breakfast kale this morning. Kale for breakfast is what got me thinking about this whole 52 Ways thing in the first place. I've been eating kale every morning for breakfast for at least the past two years, and at this point it has just become a part of my routine. When I was trying to imagine what it would look like to add a bunch of healthy habits that would improve my health and life, I kept thinking about having kale for breakfast. It's something I enjoy and look forward to. It's something that I make a priority because it makes me feel great and I know it's good for my body. But really, it is something that is easy because it's become a habit. I could just as easily have developed a habit of eating doughnuts for breakfast, and in a way, it makes me realize that the bad habits I do have (nutritionally or otherwise) are really just patterns that I set in place by doing them enough times that they start to feel normal. I want the 52 ways that I change this year to be habits that I will sustain and enjoy for the rest of my life.