new year's resolutions

Gelf-Care 30-Day Challenge Day 10: Sunrise, Sunset

Gelf-Care 30-Day Challenge Day 10: Sunrise, Sunset

My friend, Judith aka my personal Buddha, has a strong self-care game. Not only did she recommend I buy flowers, but she sent me an advent calendar full of self-car ideas like listen to an inspirational podcast, sweat, read, meditate and more.

One of the items on the list is “Watch the sunset or sunrise,” so I watched the former and after a few minutes of staring out the window, I got surprisingly antsy. So I decided to close my eyes and do a visualization exercise picturing what I want in my life. That felt good and I figured it would kill some time (sort of the antithesis of self-care.)

Gelf-Care 30-Day Challenge Day 6: Trying to Find a Man

Gelf-Care 30-Day Challenge Day 6: Trying to Find a Man

When my friend Colleen invited me to do a vision board with her and some friends, I couldn’t respond fast enough.

It had been seven years since I’d done one and it seemed like the perfect way to kick off the new year and a great example of self-care. Clipping out pictures, headlines and copy from magazines that spoke to me and pasting them onto poster board imagining what my life will look like.

I was excited to get clear on my goals and do it in a fun, creative and no pressure way.

However, after a 15-minute walk from the subway and getting lost in the building, I arrived at the Center for Social Innovation pissed.

Gelf-Care Day 1: Ciao, Chow!

Gelf-Care Day 1: Ciao, Chow!

For many, the New Year spells resolutions. For me, I’ve done that with limited success. I’ve also tried coming up with a theme for the year only to forget it weeks later. I can’t even find my theme on my computer for 2018, so that tells you how committed I was.

That’s why this year I’m doing something different. A new 30-day challenge each month.

To kick things off, January is dedicated to “Self-care” aka “Gelf-care.”

See Ya, Bucko (2018), Hello 2019: A Year’s Worth Of New 30-Day Challenges

See Ya, Bucko (2018), Hello 2019: A Year’s Worth Of New 30-Day Challenges

Happy New Year!

I woke up this morning with a sore knee and a caramel wrapper on my nightstand. The sore knee (from spinning) was unusual. The caramel wrapper was not (although the number of wrappers was. I managed to throw out the others before hitting the hay.)

You could say, “One caramel wrapper is nothing.”
”It was New Year’s Eve.”
”Don’t be so hard on yourself.”

Thanks for the encouraging words, but the truth is that candy wrappers, bowls of eaten ice cream, Sour Patch Kids bags and any number of downed desserts are a mainstay in my apartment.

These are my version of empties.

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