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 100 Days of Radical Wellness – Day 4
Years ago, I took this class at work that was about how I used my energy and how I optimized around things that give me energy versus take away energy etc. One of the things the teacher highlighted was that there were ways to stack up things that we wanted to do. For example, I might want time to connect with my kid and I also might want to get healthier so one way to do both is to go take a walk with my kid. Last night I got to take a bath and relax and also at the same time talk to my mom and my nephew which checked off my connection bucket. This morning I got to listen to classical music and journal at the same time. It’s been interesting to see how I can combine some of these wellness activities that I care about. now that I’ve experienced a few of these I think I’m going to look at them and see if there are more possible opportunities for stacking. Things are still mostly going well and I’m trying to get a good balance between giving myself grace and encouraging myself to do more of the items on my list because they are all meaningful to me. #100dayproject, #the100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness February 3, 2021 | Tags: #100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness, #the100dayproject | 100 Days of Radical Wellness | Leave a comment
  Year of Yes – 34
Wednesdays are hard. Today my first meeting was 8am and my last meeting ended at 8pm. In the middle there, I had to go get groceries, put them all away, cook some food for the week and now it’s 8:37 and I feel beat. I noticed this last Wednesday so this week I chose to exercise in the morning instead and now I am tired but I am grateful for the decision I made this morning to get out of bed and exercise. The evening me is thanking the morning me. I think paying attention to the flow of the days, hours, weeks and months is something I haven’t done enough of and when I do I see benefits pretty quickly. There’s so much good in going with the flow vs trying to swim upstream. Yes to paying attention and yes to working with what is. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 33
To ensure I can keep my word close all year, I take @aliedwards One Little Word class. It’s a class that has monthly prompts to help keep your word front and center. The February prompt is one of my favorites. It’s to make a vision board and this month is led by the magical @lucrecer who is so inspiring. I used to do this project by hand but I don’t own any magazines and it is challenging for me to find images so a few years ago I decided to use pinterest to collect images and quotes that are meaningful for me and then use them to make a digital collage. I love doing this process each year and a huge side benefit is that I can then print it and glue it to my journals throughout the year. But the best part, for me, is that I also make it the background and screensaver for my computers. Since I am on the computer all the time for work, I get to see and be inspired by my word all day long. I love having all the layers and discovering some detail each time I look. Yes to being inspired. Yes to creating tangible reminders of my word. Yes to connecting with why I wanted yes as my word and what I want to say yes to in my life! #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes #onelittleword #onelittleword2021 #aliedwardsdesigninc  100 Days of Radical Wellness – Day 3
Some awesome positive steps today! First of all, still doing the meditation first thing in bed and that’s working so far. Second, this morning I attempted to exercise in the AM and managed to finish the 4 classes and shower and journaling all before my 9am meeting. Which made me feel like a rock star so I plan to keep trying that for as long as I can pull it off. Getting the hard part done makes the day feel so much better every time. Grateful to be journaling again too. It never ever fails to be immediately useful. And grounding. The opera continues to fill me up. So today was a positive day, this project still feels ambitious and we’ll see how sustainable it is but I am feeling grateful so far. Learning a lot about what works and what’s hard. Also learning that stacking a bunch of 10-min tasks feels exponentially easier for me than commiting to a 45-minute task. Likely psychological but still. Day three in the books! #100dayproject, #the100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness February 2, 2021 | Tags: #100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness, #the100dayproject | 100 Days of Radical Wellness | Leave a comment
 Year of Yes – 32
Today was the second day of my 100 day project. Since I am already doing year of yes here, I started @karenikadoeswellness just to track that particular project which is more about focusing on different types of what I consider to be wellness for the next 100 days. I looked over my list yesterday as I was asking my friend Kelly for more ideas on things to feed my soul. And she suggested listening to more classical music or opera and lighting candles. So this morning I put on some Pavarotti, lit a delicious candle, and journaled. It was the most excellent way to start my day. It filled my soul up all the way. Yes to music, yes to journaling and yes to focusing on wellness. Thank you Kelly! #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  100 Days of Radical Wellness – Day 2
I helped kickstart the meditation today by doing it first thing when I woke up. which then helped me get on a good cycle and I was able to do journaling and listening to some wonderful opera. Continuing on that good cycle I managed to do art, All before work started. So soul work went well today. So did nutrition and exercise. I did wonder if there’s a way I can slowly move more of my exercise to the morning too but for now I’m really enjoying getting to lie in bed early in the morning instead of feeling the urgency to get up and exercise. A slow start is good for my soul. So far so good with this project, it’s managing to encourage me to do more of what I want without making me feel pressured. #100dayproject, #the100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness February 1, 2021 | Tags: #100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness, #the100dayproject | 100 Days of Radical Wellness | Leave a comment
 What I Carry – Jennifer Longo
 Year of Yes – 31
After taking almost all of January off, hubby and I went climbing again today. The rock we usually climb on has three faces (at least if you don’t want to be near anyone, which we don’t). One face is super easy, and we did it many times last year, the other one is our most recent route that we’ve done 3-4 times and the third we’d never done before today. When we got there, others were already doing the route we usually do, so we got adventurous and did the third face we’d never done. This required taking our shoes off and crossing a small river. Very cold water. It also required just going for it and seeing what we could do since we had no idea what the rating was and if we would be able to climb it. But we did. Several times. It was hard, refreshing, invigorating. On the way home, we got to see an incredible sunset and I was feeling a deep sense of contentment and joy. Fresh air, new adventures, exercise, and time with my husband. A perfect afternoon. Yes to adventures. Yes to trying new things and taking chances. Yes to time together. Yes to nature. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  100 Days of Radical Wellness – Day 1
And here we go! Day one of the 100 day project. I really wasn’t sure what I was going to do this year but then this idea of radical wellness came and wouldn’t let go. So I did some journaling I did some testing and here we are. My plan is here is to focus on five areas to help me walk towards practicing radical wellness: movement, nutrition, mind, body and soul. I have a list of items in each area that I track daily in a spreadsheet but really the goal is to move at least 45 mins a day, eat more veggies+protein+fiber and drink more water, take care of my skin and teeth and spend time reflecting, learning, connecting and being creative. The goal is not to do everything every day, it’s to do more of these things each week. So the tracking is to help me get a variety and have discipline but it’s not there to make me feel shame or blame. We’ll see how it feels a few weeks in and I know it might be too complicated but I am super excited about it and that’s all that matters to me! 100 days of Radical Wellness here we go! #100dayproject, #the100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness January 31, 2021 | Tags: #100dayproject, #karenikaradicalwellness, #the100dayproject | 100 Days of Radical Wellness | Leave a comment
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