This Surprising Thing Happened After Writing About Self-Care for 30 Days

Acknowledging and surrendering to the dream

Good Afternoon!

Another weekend is upon us and I hope all of you are going into it with a sense of accomplishment for the week gone by. To my new readers, welcome to Daily Self! I’m happy you found us 😊

In today’s edition…

1. Afternoon Microdose: This Surprising Thing Happened After Writing About Self-Care for 30 Days

2. Myth of the Day Recommended Reading: Rather than a myth of the day, I’d like to suggest some readings if you’re a new subscriber (or just behind on the dailies)

3. Action Item: What’s your dream?

(1) Afternoon Microdose

This Surprising Thing Happened After Writing About Self-Care for 30 Days

Today’s edition marks the 30th for Daily Self! It’s crazy to look back at the archive and see the breadth of topics we have covered. From resilience and re-discovery to being ghosted and having imposter syndrome… we’ve covered a lot.

And while looking back, I realized something significant:

When I surrendered to the dream that I’ve always known I was supposed live, I found myself in a flow state that gave back more energy than it took.

Even though I’ve been working more than ever before, it finally feels like I’m moving with the current, rather than against it. Between the 1st edition and the 30th edition of writing Daily Self, I have:

• Started Hip Hop classes

• Written a book

• Attended new kinds of events by myself that I’ve always been intimidated to do before

• Practiced my voiceover and got more comfortable with hearing myself in an audio recording

• Gone on three dates

People ask me all the time, “How do you have the energy to do all that?” The truth is, finding the energy isn’t the problem… it’s that I don’t have enough time to do more!

Pursuing the dream

Maybe you’re not getting old or “winding down”—maybe you just need to accept that there is a dream inside of you pleading to be acknowledged, a dream that once you unabashedly begin to pursue will unfold with divine grace and unlock the meaning and purpose of your life.

Or maybe you’ll fail.

But, in your failure, the risk that you took when you laid your heart bare will make every risk you take thereafter so much less scary.

You’ll do this again, and again, and again—for 30 days or 3000.

Until one day, you don’t fail, and you find that once the dream came alive, so did you.

(2) Myth of the Day Recommended Reading

Rather than a myth today, I’d like to suggest the following readings if you’re a new subscriber (or just behind on the dailies):

1. Changing Your Life

   1. Mastering Small Talk

   2. Overcoming Limiting Beliefs (resisting inertia)

   3. Pushing Through Fatigue

   4. Embracing Resilience

   5. A Formula for Changing Your Life

2. Positive Thinking and Personal Development

   1. Realists, Optimists, & Pessimists, Oh My!

   2. The Power of Surprising Yourself

   3. Re-Finding Yourself

   4. Hard Truths

   5. 10 Essentials for Functional Self-Care (soon to be released as a book!)

3. Overcoming “Imposter Syndrome”

   1. Part 1: I am a Fraud

   2. Part 2: Who Are You When No One Is Watching?

4. If you’re looking for relationship advice:

   1. How to Date Like an Adult

   2. 👻 Is There a Right Way to Ghost Someone?

   3. Switching Off Grizzly Mode

   4. You and Me…. and Them?!

   5. 🤖 How to Beat a Robot at Writing a Love Letter

Top 3 Posts by No. of Reads

Stop Being Awkward - 5 Ways to Make Small Talk That You'll Actually Enjoy

💩 Dancing Makes the Poop Manageable

🧭 10 Essentials for Functional Self-care

(3) Action Item

If you have just 1 extra minute this weekend, drop me an email at dailyselfnewsletter@gmail.com or leave a comment in this post telling us about a dream that you’re inspired to take. And, if you’re enjoying the newsletter, I’d sure appreciate a lil’ ♥.

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