Curiosly enough, the task that I find most difficult to undertake is one that seems quite easy: mindful eating. The main problem is that I tend to forget it when eating. Tonite I was halfway dinner when I finally realised that my commitment included mindfully eating that dish too.
Part of the problem I guess is that me being an omnivore, it sounds a little hypocryte to care about the wellness of all sentient beings and at the same time eating one of them.
Then there is also this feeling about returning to old Christian habits, as it sounds a little like a prayer: please God allmighty bless the food we are about to eat.
Probably I’m conducting this task in a too intellectual way, and I should forget about the text and concentrate in the tastes and textures of the food, but then, it sounds more like acting as a gourmet than zen practice.

I haven’t mentioned yet the two things I’m giving up for the sake of this ango. Full disclosure mode, here we go:

I decided to link it to the two precepts I find easier to break: idle chatting and intoxicants. To make them easier to evaluate and see if I’m in the right track or not, I think it is better to make them more precise, so my commitment goes like this:
1) to avoid digital chats, talkers and other idle cyberchatting. I tend to drop for a chat in Facebook or some talker when I’m bored with the stuff I’m working with. So far I’ve been able to avoid them

2) to avoid casual use of alcohol and other intoxicants. By “casual” I mean not related to any specific ocasion. For example, why having a normal lunch with a beer if water is good enough (actually it’s healthier to drink water). So I don’t plan to quit alcohol, but only drinking it in special ocassions, like some friends birthday and so on, and stop having a beer just because it is hot out there. So far experience is good: I feel that eating lunch with water instead of beer makes me less sleepy after lunch.