It’s Challenge Time!!!

The day is finally here, it’s February 1st. And aside from being the first day if a very important month (and during a leap year too!) it is the day I said I would start my 29 day micro-self care challenge to introduce healthy habits into my life that won’t take up the whole day or cost a thing.

Many people think that self care has to involve money with things like a spa day, or mani pedis but it doesn’t have to. Self-care is anything you do to take care of some aspect of yourself being physical, mental, social, or spiritual.

For the first day of the challenge I was supposed to take a walk outside without my phone. I thought this would be harder for me than it was because I usually always have my phone with me (even when I walk my dogs). Instead, today when it was time to walk my dogs I left my phone at home and completed the walks without it. I did have my smart watch, but that’s a fitness tracker and I like my music when I walk so I usually need to keep it on.

What I learned from today is that I don’t always have to have my phone glued to my hand, and in fact, I get many more benefits mentally from walking without the distraction and just focusing on my dogs and the signs that spring will soon be here.