I Used My Success as a Vegan to Commit to a Daily Routine in 2021
Sometimes, strict rules help — and you can use past wins to plot your future excellence.
When I went vegetarian around my 12th birthday, I did it to help animals. A side effect was that it strengthened my discipline. It provided a reference experience I could look back on, to believe in my ability to change.
I know some people struggle to be veg. For whatever lucky reasons, eating meatless came easy to me. I loved all the plant food and even lost my taste for eggs and dairy. Once I left the house, I committed to eating fully vegan.
If only every habit change had been so easy! I wanted to quit binge-watching TV, for example. To write daily, and to have a healthy morning routine. Unfortunately, the bad habits I created during my teenage years felt like a gigantic ball of tangled yarn, which would take at least a decade to unravel.
I desperately longed for stability and self-trust. It frustrated me to no end that I would go 5 days or 19 days or some other random length of time practicing a good habit, and then swing back into lifestyle chaos with my gaming addiction, comfort eating, disastrous room, erratic sleep schedule, etc.
