“I would stop thinking of meditation as something you have to add to your day and start tying it to something you already do, like brushing your teeth or the first minute after you wake up. Research shows that kind of anchoring, especially in the morning, is what makes people stick with it.”
“I’d anchor it to the same time and place each day, before the phone gets you, and start with ten minutes even if that feels almost insultingly small. It took me eight years to make daily practice stick, and the thing that finally worked was treating every missed day as just another moment to begin again.”
“I stopped assuming daily meditation would just happen after I had my baby, because it didn't. For me, the only thing that works is a group waiting for me at 7:30am, which is why I still run morning meditations and why I tell people to find an anchor outside your own willpower.”
“The hardest part isn't the meditation itself—it's getting over the resistance to starting. Start with what feels ridiculously small: maybe just one minute, or even three conscious breaths before you get out of bed. Not because that's going to transform you overnight, but because showing up is what trains the brain. Once the resistance eases, consistency matters far more than duration.”
“Start with something you actually do when a practice feels daunting. Even 10 seconds beats nothing, and often once you start, 1 minute just flows. The point isn't duration—it's consistency, so give yourself permission to keep it small.”
“I didn’t build a habit with long sits, I returned to three conscious breaths many times a day, at the sink, in traffic, before calls. Each pause is simply coming home to presence now, not a project aimed at a future state.”
“I made daily meditation stick only after my mom passed and I lost our morning calls; before that, I treated it like a chore I'd get to later. Start with one minute attached to something you already do, because a body that remembers the habit matters more than a mind that decides to.”
“I started the Bliss More challenge with Light Watkins in 2018 because I needed something structured, not another app I would ignore. The 21 days turned into 730, mostly because I stopped making it special: park bench, living room floor, my daughter interrupting with morning meridimation—it all counted.”