What a bizarre six months it will be.

After managing to stay relatively put for a year, I will be away from Osaka for at least three days every month beginning November.

Like a well-oiled machine, I made my plan, set it to action and kept rolling. This is my high. This is a stretch of six months when I travel alone to three prefectures in Japan, three countries in Europe and three countries in Southeast Asia.

Six months, three regions, at least three days for each trip.

Why is this momentous?

• Because habits
• Because commitments
• Because life

Once we have found what we willingly commit to, we do what we can to get to it and we form habits to keep us steady. Those habits become such huge chunks of our lives that they become our lives themselves.