Small disciplines won.

I was thinking this morning about habits and how we build good habits through small daily disciplines. Then I though how easy it is not to do one of these habits one day, then how easy it is to miss another day and then another and before long you lose the benefit of this discipline and go back to the old ways and it happens so very quickly, especially when times are tough and hard.
I know how easy it is to slide down the slippery slope, rather than to climb up the mountain.
If you are going through hard times, remember that life happens to everyone.
Its not what happens, its what we do about it.
Its never time to give up or slow down, its time to push harder.
I find when things are going well I can be so positive and enjoy work, but my true character is seen when things are not so good, hard times brings out the real us, especially in our Art practice.
In the face of problems don't give up doing what is good for you even if it seems not to be working, it is in these times that you build resolve.
There will always be hard times followed by good times and the cycle of life will go on.
Small disciplines won must not be lost, as hard as it may be to do the disciplines, this is your life you are building.
Remember there lots of people at the bottom of the mountain, but once you commit to the hard work of climbing the mountain, the higher you climb, less people you will find.