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Most of the Baptiste family seems to be either beginning, middle-ing, or ending a 40 Day to Personal Revolution program within their individual communities around the world. I’ve completed about five revolutions in seven years. They’ve all looked differently, of course, depending on my life at the time. I’ve done them with others at my local studio and I’ve done them with people online. I’ve gone solo. I’ve even led them.
And I’ve dreaded every single one.
As I embark on another 40-day program with a brand new community, I find myself resisting this one, too. When I did some digging, I realized this “ugh” feeling was actually guilt. Preemptive shame. I saw that I’m already beating myself up for failing at a program that hasn’t even begun yet.
Cue the laughing-til-i’m-crying emoji.
The guilt was coming from a harsh, black-and-white, all-or-nothing mentality. I was either going to do the program perfectly or not at all. Once I identified and acknowledged guilt, I felt lighter. And once I realized I was setting incredibly high, rigid expectations of myself for what I consider “successful,” I realized I could also take those expectations off.
Baron doesn’t say in his book, “We’re going for perfect, guys.” (In fact, he’s coming out with a book actively asking us NOT to be perfect). Once I gave myself permission to be as I am, the program opened up to me as one with huge possibilities. I could now be on a journey of true discovery, rather than one to get “right.”
Wherever you are in your program, join me in a pre-Revolution revolution, through these three new steps to approaching 40 Days:
Jessica Kenny is a Director of Teachers at Baptiste Yoga San Francisco . She is also a freelance writer, ginger, and amateur sandwich eater.