Deep insight, intensive workshops, breakthrough coaching sessions, a cataclysmic life event... these all are catalysts for change. These are the events that many wanting change seek.

We can come off these events with a high, with a great uplift in our motivation or a low searching for meaning, answers.

THEN, reality sets in and the heavy lifting of integrating these events - emotional and mental shifts and behavior change - into our daily living sets in.

This is where I see the need for an uncommon practice to take root: realistic optimism. How do you stay optimistic and steady with your practice of behavior change despite what you know, despite how hard it may be, despite the lack of support you may face in your environment? How do you keep the faith and believe you can do it? How do you acknowledge the incremental, daily changes you do make?

Regardless of what others say, savor what you know to be true. Savor your improvements. These are the roots that grow great fruit.