Challenge #16: Give Yourself Credit

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She owns it without apology

Welcome to week 16 of your summer challenge!

It's our last week! Sniff. It's been a wonderful summer with you. I've loved all the emails and stories and successes.

I hope you've loved this challenge as much as I have. And we're not done. Here is one more challenge for you:

This week, please look back and give yourself credit. If you want, you can use this summer challenge to practice. Look back over the past 15 weeks and give yourself credit for the things you've tried, the shifts you've made, the learning you had. Even if you only did one thing, give yourself credit.

If you want to amp up this week's challenge, look back at your career or other aspects of your life and give yourself credit - for making good decisions with the information you had at the time (even if they didn't work out), for taking good care of yourself, for creating a fulfilling life (most of the time).

You get to take credit for what you've created (even the painful lessons along the way).

You deserve it.

Challenge #1: Starting With Ease

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Summer ease!

Welcome to the first day of your summer challenge!

Each week, an easy challenge will arrive in your inbox. Each activity/change/new perspective will be easy to implement alongside your regular life, meaning you don't have to buy special equipment or add to your mental load.

You may already be doing some of the things. Some may be new. You may choose to do some and not others. You might do some for one day and repeat others until they integrate into habits.

I encourage you to do as many as you can to get the most out of this experience. You have a week to practice and some will stick with you all summer and perhaps forever.

Many small shifts over the course of the summer will add up to profound change - healthier habits, feeling good in your body, and a calmer mind.

So, here is your first challenge.

This week, make one thing easy each day. Watch for something in your day that feels hard...scheduling something, a conversation with a colleague, getting home on time. (Don't start with something big like dating or asking for a raise, unless, of course, you can easily make those things easy.)

Simply look at the situation and ask yourself: What would make this easy? Then do that. Maybe pick up the phone. Maybe cancel the meeting. Maybe simply put things down until tomorrow and leave. (Hint: Sometimes the easy thing is to do nothing. I find that when I wait, often things become easy on their own. That's legit.)

So, a challenge that is all about ease and calm in your life starts with the practice of EASE. Ease is the foundation. You will practice it this week and then ease will be the lens for every challenge this summer.

Please invite your friends and colleagues to join you. All they have to do is sign up for this newsletter to be part of the fun. They can sign up here.

If you have something you'd like me to address in this challenge, please reach out. Tell me the thing you'd like to shift, and I'll add a challenge tailored for you (and you can bet others need it, too!).