Daily Challenge List: Learn to Love Yourself in 30 Days
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Day #1 - Declutter
De-clutter your space. Traditionally, people who's cars, homes, desks, etc are messy have a hard time staying organized and on task. Their clutter makes their lives feel cluttered too.
- Read Michelle's Completed Day #1 Challenge
- Read Tawsha's Completed Day #1 Challenge
- (How can such a clean person have so much clutter in this one area?)
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Day #2 - Get a Journal
Buy yourself a journal to write and reflect about how you're feeling each day of our 30 Day Challenge. Write down the things you've learned going through the steps. It'll help you learn a lot about yourself and is great to go back to if you start to fall off the wagon once the challenge is complete.
- Read Michelle's Completed Day #2 Challenge
- Read Tawsha's Completed Day #2 Challenge
- Looks are everything.
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Day #3 - Start A Book
Start a good book and finish it, eventually. We know you probably won't have time to read the entire thing this weekend. There's several books I've seen on Oprah's "Super Soul Sunday" and some parenting books I've been wanting to read. Michelle admits she's bad at being an adult and has a list of "how-to adult" books she wants to read. Take some quiet time for yourself to read those books.
- Read Michelle's Completed Day #3 Challenge
- Read Tawsha's completed Day #3 Challenge
- If this book doesn't change me and make me stronger, there may not be anything in this world that can accomplish the goal.
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Day #4 - Find a New Hobby
Find a new hobby. Keyword here is new. Michelle Heart runs. All. The. Time. She can't pick running as a hobby. Maybe you've always wanted to try painting, candle making, yoga, etc. Stop talking about it and be about it. You've lost touch with yourself so get back in touch by exploring new things you love.
- Read Tawsha's completed Day #4 challenge
- I still don't know what the heck I'm doing but I'll take on this new hobby and own it!
- Read Tawsha's completed Day #4 challenge
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Day #5 - Ask A Friend About 3 Things You Can Improve
Have a friend be totally honest with you and give you three things about yourself that you could improve upon. This is their hall pass to say what they really think without hurting your feelings.
- Read Michelle's Completed Day #5 Challenge
- Read Tawsha's completed Day #5 Challenge
- It's something that was put off until the end of the day because it took that much courage to accomplish this task.
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Day #6 - Fill Your Bucket
Disclaimer: The girls failed at this because they didn't bring their buckets to work. And Tawsha filled hers up with Candy Corn...
We talked about "filling your bucket" this morning, so today's challenge is to get a physical bucket and do exactly that. Fill it up with something: blocks, paper wads, balls etc. When an interaction with someone makes you feel positive during the day, add another one to the bucket. If an interaction makes you feel negative take one out and write what that interaction was in your journal. That way you can start identifying the things in your life that are stealing your joy and confidence.
You might just be surprised by the number of things impacting your day that are not so important! Go do it!
- Read Tawsha's completed Day #6 Challenge
- The struggle is real. So very real.
- Read Tawsha's completed Day #6 Challenge
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Day #7 - Who Am I?
Who are you? No, really. How would others describe you? How would you describe you? Common answers are to say that you're male or female, that you like certain things, that you want to make people happy, etc. That's not what we're looking for in this Day #7 challenge.
If we are going to learn to love ourselves, to become empowered, to build confidence, to grow - we need to know who we are.
In this challenge, sit down (whenever you get a moment) and take a look at yourself. Write that down. Dig deep. Discover your feelings, how you present yourself. What I think we will find is that we start to describe the person we want to be. Go with it. Follow that path.
It's time to get real with who we are so we can become even better as individuals.
- Read Michelle's Completed Day #7 Challenge
- Read Tawsha's Day #7 Challenge
- People say that I'm unpredictable. I see why, now.
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Day #8 - Face Your Fears
Write about your three biggest fears so that you can face them head first. If can be anything from your basic fear of spiders, to fear of falling in love, etc. In your journal evaluate why these things scare you and how to take steps toward getting over them.
- Read Michelle's Completed Day #8 Challenge
- Read Tawsha's Completed Day #8 Challenge
- Let's start with failure. It's real.
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Day #9 - Replace Bad Habits
What are you bad habits? Smoking? Throwing your dirty clothes on the floor instead of a hamper? Leaving cheese wrappers in the sink? Identify your three worst habits and try replacing them with a good habit. Substitute a healthy snack for a cigarette or just pick up your clothes and take them to the washer.
- Read Michelle's Completed Day #9 Challenge
- Read Tawsha's Completed Day #9 Challenge
- Is it possible to have too many to count? I'll start small.
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Day #10 - Meditate
Think of how many hats you wear during the day. What are you? An employee? Friend? Daughter? Mom? Coach? Volunteer? When you're life is constantly on the go, how often is your mind completely at rest and free? Google strategies on how to meditate and try spending 60 minutes meditating and clearing your mind.
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Day #11 - Random Acts Of Kindness
What better way to feel better about yourself than making the day of someone else brighter? Today participate in 5 acts of kindness. It could be buying someone a Dutch Bros or even as simple as putting your phone away to focus on your kids. Write in your journal how each one of these acts made you feel.
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Day #12 - Don't Think or Say Anything Negative About Another Woman
So often, we let our thoughts turn to the negative - especially when it comes to other women. I don't know if it's a competitive thing or insecurity but we will tend to throw out the negativity and direct it toward another woman. What does that do? It brings negativity to yourself.
The Day #12 challenge is to put a halt to the negativity on other women. See how it makes you feel.