August Self-Care Challenge

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I'm not sure how I began receiving daily emails from this health and wellness website called Greatist, but I am impressed by the relevant and knowledgeable content that I find.  Teaching my bi-weekly boot camp classes is something I really enjoy, but I do find that I need to switch things up quite often, so some of the exercises this site has discussed are great additions to my inventory.  I especially love finding new ways to use my TRX and resistance bands!

This site is fairly new to me, so this may be old news to many people, but I realized yesterday that Greatist sets up a monthly challenge to help people push themselves to look, and feel better about themselves.  I'm disappointed that I missed out on last month's challenge - working up to 2 minutes and 30 seconds in a wall sit - but I am happy that I caught onto this exercise just as August's challenge was released!

So, for August, they have changed from a fitness focus to a more wellness-based approach, and offered up a "Self-Care Challenge".  Something I often read about, and make a mental note to do more, is to take time for myself to relax and rejuvenate.  As an introvert, having time to myself that is quiet and free from distractions is very important to my mental health and overall psychological well-being.  However, I keep stuffing more and more into my already too-tight schedule, and find that I have very little time left over to treat myself right.  What little extra time I do have, I feel I need to dedicate to sleep!

Today I was challenged to write down 5 things I am happy about right now.  In the art of sharing, my 5 are:

1.  I have an awesome boyfriend who loves me and makes me laugh often.
2.  My "Kitten" is alive and healthy and I have kept her this way for 17 years.
3.  I am healthy and able to do almost anything I want to do to keep myself happy.
4.  I am finally able to concentrate at work because it's quiet in the office today.
5.  The weather is hot and the sun is shining and I am able to fully enjoy and relish in the outdoors

I hope, as time goes by, I am able to look within more for future reasons to be happy, but right now, these things are what makes me happy and I think say a lot about who I am.  If anyone else is doing this self-care challenge, good luck to you!