It’s REALLY hard to be born, and it’s also really hard to make new habits.
My wife and I are in the hospital right now with our second-born son. He’s just about 24 hours old, and in many ways, I can’t help but recognize the similarities between entering this world and trying to establish a new habit (which I watch and try to help my clients do all the time). I’ll give just a couple thoughts below in the effort of brevity. These parallels came to me after a night with a single hour of sleep, as I lay down on my scarcely-padded wooden bench, (bench, n