This is getting difficult.

In Donald Miller's book "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" he talks about an inciting incident. An inciting incident is a literary term about an experience or event that forces a character into action, forces them to move, to change. For example, Miller wanted to hike the Incan trail, which is extremely grueling and physically taxing, and then he asked a girl he was interested in to accompany him and she agreed. This became his inciting incident to join a gym and get into shape so that he wouldn't make a fool of himself in front of the girl that he liked while on the trail.
I had an inciting incident that made me decide to do this silly work out regime. There's this kid in my speech class who did a speech on the P90X and I thought, "he's in shape. I could be too." Then I came home and John and Maureen were talking about starting the P90X and I thought, "what a coincidence, I'll do it too!" Thus began my commitment.
Now I need an inciting incident to force me to do yoga today. I am overwhelmed with school work and I know that the workout is an hour and a half which I'm not sure I have time for right now. But I don't want to flake out on another workout this week because then I would be making a habit out of it. I wish I had more time today.

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