VIBE CHECK
End the month on a high. It’s a challenge week.
This time we are trying something new here on the blog.
I have had a very stressful month and I know I’m not alone in this.
To give us all a little light at the end of the tunnel and prep us for the fresh new start that is coming with April and the start of spring, I challenge you to do a week-long positivity/vibe check challenge with me.
I will post a daily task for you to do to challenge your daily routine and mindset.
You can choose to do only one day, two days or the whole week. Essentially, these will be just tiny things for you to do daily to cheer yourself up, challenge a negative thought or in general just add a tiny moment of positivity into your day.
We’re in this together, so I really hope that you will take up my challenge and join me. Feel free to drop me a message and I’ll be happy to hear your thoughts or how you’re getting on with your vibe check! 🙂
Day 1 – Share a compliment
This can be as simple as a quick message to a friend or a family member, or if you really want to take it a step further and spread some positivity you can contact an old friend, acquaintance or a stranger. Again, this can be in person (if you have the option) or online.
Just spread a little bit of positivity to someone around you. And you never know what a tiny comment like a compliment can do… That’s how many great friendships have begun!
Day 2 – Treat yourself
So, this is not “oh I’ll do myself a favour and do my laundry today” or any other mundane task you do regularly. No. The definition of a favour is:
an act of kindness beyond what is due or usual.
This means literally anything you can think of that essentially makes your life easier or brings you joy. Some examples might be treating yourself to a delicious meal, taking an hour to just do absolutely nothing without any phones or computers around or going out of your way to get a take away coffee and some cake just for the sake of it.
We are so quick to jump and do all these favours for literally everyone else around us, but when we ask ourselves to do something nice to ourselves it is automatically followed by endless excuses.
Just take this one day to make sure you do an act of kindness for yourself. Take on a task that will make your life easier or bring you joy – no questions asked, simply just do it.
Day 3 – Pick an occasion and celebrate it
Now that we are all stuck inside and have little to no social contact, most of us can’t remember the last time we got to celebrate something.
So for this week, I want you to wake up one day with the pure intention and mindset that “today I am celebrating [insert your thing]” and it can be anything you can think of.
I want you to go into a day excited and grateful. The process of just thinking about what you could celebrate will give you so many things to be happy about.
For example, you could celebrate finishing a task, making it through the crazy year you’ve had or simply the fact that you’re alive. Once you have your thing to celebrate, you get to choose how exactly you choose to celebrate it.
Again, it could be anything.
Maybe you treat yourself to a drink at the end of the day, get yourself a gift or get dressed up and just feel good about yourself!
Day 4 – Go offline
This is a fairly obvious one and I know we all know it.
Although I love social media and look forward to building my career around it, it really doesn’t make us feel great about ourselves.
It’s a great momentary distraction from what is going on, but at the moment I spend up to 3 hours a day scrolling through Instagram and Tik Tok and it’s really not great for either my productivity or my mindset. It’s so easy to get clouded by everything going on online and especially being the only social channel for many people whose social interactions are limited, it can really stop you from developing new thoughts and thinking clearly.
This week I want you to step away from it for one day and just see how that can change how you think and feel.
Day 5 – Let someone know you’re thinking about them
I find myself often thinking about wanting to message someone that I used to know and then stopping myself from doing that because I think it’s “too weird” or “they don’t care”.
But whenever I get a message from someone I do or don’t know I absolutely love it.
It’s so nice to know someone thought about you when they sent that message.
So today I challenge you to do just that, send someone a quick message saying hi or asking how they’re doing. I promise you, it’s going to be worth the initial doubt.
The worst thing that can happen is that they won’t get back to you but you might still have been a reason they smiled today. On the other hand, the best thing that can happen is they will answer and you get a nice conversation with someone you took a minute to think about and again you might have made their day!
Day 6 – Drink water
It’s something so simple yet most of us don’t do it enough.
So this is my reminder to you, just please, drink water!
A month ago I bought a 1 l water bottle that has time marks on it. I am now motivated to drink that 2 litres a day and make sure I do it gradually throughout the day.
I’m not telling you that water fixes everything, but it really does make you feel so much better. Please, just try even for two days to drink that 2-2.5 litres of water and let me know if you can tell a difference.
Day 7 – The best case scenario
We often tend to think only about the worst thing that can happen, especially when we are stressed or overwhelmed.
Today whenever you find yourself thinking about the worst-case scenario of any situation or a thing, I would like you to follow it up with the best thing that could happen.
This will let you realise that the likelihood of the “worst” and the “best” case scenario happening is most often either equal or in favour of the better one. In the long run, this can really stop you from catastrophising your own life.
