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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!).