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What Can You Achieve With Fifteen Minutes A Day
You can go wider, deeper and stronger
When you begin something new, you can’t guess how far you can go.
Do you agree?
Let me share some stories from the first six months of 2023, a year of trying new things without setting any great goals.
Crochet? Me? No way!
When I received a crochet starter kit as a Christmas gift, my first response was, of course, ”Thank you”, followed immediately by “you must be kidding”. As someone who has not spent much time with arts and crafts, I was skeptical about my ability to put the three balls of yarn and the set of crochet hooks to use.
As the days went by, I saw the pink box around the house, silently beckoning me to pick it up. After a few days I finally gave in and decided to try my hand. Only for fifteen minutes each day. I set a timer and tried to follow instructions in the booklet beginning with learning how to make a chain stitch and then moved on to single, double and triple crochet stitches. My goal was to stick with this practice for 21 days, for exactly 15 minutes a day without missing a single day. That’s it.
No pressure to make something, or for it to be pretty or functional. A tick on…