Welcome to our 1st SRTT Louisville challenge of 2023 - New Year, New Habits! We are mixing things up for 2023 with fewer but longer challenges happening roughly every other month. We will also post them directly in the group - no more trying to find the event. It will be pinned as the featured post throughout the challenge months.
To kick off 2023, our challenge will run from Jan 1 - Feb 28th and focus on building daily habits along with some random pop-up challenges throughout. Some of these might already be habits for you - totally fine, this will help keep those habits and help monitor them.
The goal of this challenge and building these habits is to focus on YOU, loving yourself and your body and contributing to your happiness. It’s something a lot of us struggle with or struggle to make time for. There will be a lot of details for each of these because the key to creating habits is to be specific, monitor them and schedule time for them.
Here are the daily habits - watch for posts with specific details for some of the habits or pop-up challenges. If you need any guidance or more information on any of these - please comment and let us know!
Sunday Reflection
Sunday will be our time to reflect and write in a journal/notebook. Each week, write down the following in your journal:
- 3 good things that happened or made you happy the past week
- Write down your goals or intentions for the next week. This can even include something you didn’t accomplish the prior week but want to in the next week. Make it personal to YOU.
Mindfulness Monday
- Be mindful about something in your day. You can start your day with a purpose, meditate, set intentions for the day, practice mindful eating, or rewire your brain. You pick what makes sense for YOU.
Tune In Tuesday
- Listen to something that motivates you, inspires you, makes you happy, helps your mind take a break and/or, relaxes you. Then share with the group as others might find what you are listening to helpful.
Water Wednesday
- Don’t forget to hydrate! Set your own water goal, share it and drink that goal! General recommendations are half of your body weight in ounces of water.
Love Yourself Thursday
- Watch for posts with the focus for each week. Week 1: Ask Yourself: Whom do I envy? Envy is an uncomfortable emotion, but it’s instructive. Typically, if you envy someone, you wish you had something that person has. Now, what about them do you envy and wish you had? What are steps you could take to manifest what you want?
Free Friday
- It’s important to rest and Friday seems like a perfect time to do it after a busy week. Rest and/or share whatever you feel like sharing for the week - can be something you accomplished this week, how you overcame something, got out of your comfort zone or just something uplifting - it’s free for you to decide!
Sweat Saturday
- While you don’t always have to sweat to be effective, this day is all about getting some movement in! Are you getting a run in, stretching, doing yoga, walking, cycling, or cross/strength-training? Share what movement you made time for.
