I woke up at 5:30 this morning. I was out of bed by 6 and on the Yoga mat by 6:15 am. It was a late start. My girlfriend was out of bed at 5:30 and headed for the treadmill. I felt like a slacker.

I had not done Yoga in over a week. Maybe 2. I'd just got off my rhythm. Allowed myself to get caught up in life. Made the decision again and again to try to do work instead of Yoga. This is always a mistake yet time and again I manage to convince myself that this time, skipping Yoga to get work done is justified. I have a tight deadline, a pressing project, some reason why I can't take the hour out of my morning to stretch.

The truth is, that when I do my morning Yoga practice, I start the day off more centered, more relaxed. I find that things come easier to me, intractable problems get tractable like a Mofo. So why do I continue to practice a behavior that has been proven in my own eyes to be less successful than another strategy? In other words, why do I continue to skip morning yoga when I know that my day would go better with it? Illusion. The Illusion that, whatever pressing problem I might have won't wait an hour; the illusion that I can spend an hour on work and then stop and do Yoga after. This has never happened. Having identified this delusion, I now face a crisis (read: choice) every morning: Will I engage in evolution or delusion? Sounds simple when you put it that way but it’s not.

I believe that it is only morning yoga enabling me to even have these thoughts.