- Come up with a four-step skincare routine to incorporate into Self-Care Sundays (the day every week that you devote to taking care of yourself)
- Come up with a plan for how to structure your time. Try calendar blocking or todo lists;
- Go to sleep an hour early (don’t forget your skincare routine!)
- Stretch every morning
- Re-read your favourite book
- Knit a scarf!
- Start a compliments file where you write down all of the beautiful/quirky/exciting things you notice about other people. Try to add something new every day
- Schedule an hour of MeTime a day (is the Self-Care Sunday’s skincare routine working for you? Anything you need to change up?)
- Walk for 20 minutes
- Take a picture of something beautiful and make it your laptop’s background
- Re-watch an old favourite comedy
- Write down 7 things you’re grateful for
- Make a list of all the things you value (check in with your task management system. Is it still working? Should you give it a clean out?)
- Think about someone you love and respect and write them a letter explain why (you don’t have to send it!)
- Do 10 pushups every morning
- Take yourself on an artist’s date
- Sing in the shower every day
- Do 10 squats every morning
- Dance to three songs in a row
- Make a list of every activity you can think of that you enjoy doing. Take the top three and make time for each of them next week
- Do 10 situps every morning. Tonight, take some extra time to really enjoy your skincare routine
- Do some colouring in
- Try a breathing exercise
- Go out in a low-key cosplay (check in with your task management system and change anything that’s not working for you!)
- Go cloud-watching
- When you’re eating, put down your fork between mouthfuls
- Fix something small that has been bugging you
- Be selfish. Do one thing today just because it makes you happy.
- Read some philosophy
- Hug someone every day
- Get some vitamin D (preferably from the sun)
- Do a mini-declutter
- Do a body scan
- Moisturise from head to toe (check in with your task management system while you’re waiting for the moisturiser to absorb!)
- Dress up in your favourite clothes for the day – regardless of who is going to see you or what you’re doing
- Get some essential oils and take some MeTime
- Take a nap
- Take five pictures of beautiful things. Pick the best one and make it your laptop background
- Compliment a stranger
- Find a pet (cat or dog). Pet it.
- Exercise a signature strength. Think about what you’re good at and find an opportunity for it today.
- Bake something
- Take yourself on a date
- Write a limerick or a haiku about your favourite animal
- Use an online tutorial to learn something new
- Listen to a podcast (I recommend the Adventure Zone!)
- Learn how to say ‘Can I pet your dog?’ in three new languages
- Do a de-clutter of your space, a de-clutter of your task management system, and a de-clutter of your computer (maybe take a day for each of these!)
- Work on a jigsaw puzzle.
- Make a Spotify playlist based on your current mood.
- Come up with three new things you want to try next year
- Make a vision board for 2020
Jessica Seymour
Researcher, lecturer, writer
