Love Yourself Challenge: Have A Great Day (W1.D2)

Ok, so this is Week 1, Day 2 of the “Love Yourself” Challenge.

The focus is to take some time just for you today.

Task 1: Create Your Journal

Find a journal that speaks to you and make it your own. Create a safe place to record your thoughts each day. You can buy a blank notebook, make your own or simply use your smartphone!

So my journal is going to be a combination of this blog and notes on my smartphone. I may occasionally throw in some other elements when needed.

For today’s entry I’m including an inspiring song. I love the song “Scars to Your Beautiful” by Alessia Cara.

Here’s what Alessia had to say in an interview with I Heart Radio about the song’s meaning:

“‘Scars to Your Beautiful’ is another anthem-like song. And it’s about body image for young women. So it’s aimed at young women … or women in general, but I think guys can relate as well, I hope anyways. It’s about the standards that women have to deal with all the time. Whether it’s in media, or in just regular life. We’re just expected to do, and to look like so many different things, and it’s so hard to keep up with sometimes. And these things that we’re being told, whether it’s indirectly or directly, they get into our heads and it got to the point where now girls can’t look at themselves and just feel happy anymore. We have to find something that we don’t like, or something that we have to compare ourselves too. And that can get so tiring. It’s just such a wrong message to send to people, and it’s just a bad thing to put in our heads. So I wanted to make a song that was saying to block out all that noise, and to just appreciate yourself, and not go to these extremes to love yourself.”

(Check out the full interview here.)

Check out the video below. And check out the lyrics here.

Task 2: Hit the Hay

Go to bed 30 minutes early. Tonight, make a point to be in bed 30 minutes earlier than usual and enjoy the extra Zzzs! Sleep is so important to feeling good and being healthy, but so many of us skimp on it.

As for this task… I’ll do my best. Going to bed on time does not happen easily for me. It’s hard to shut down the gears in my brain at night. Unlike my fiance who can be asleep within two minutes on laying in the bed, for me it’s more like an hour. I’ll work on that though.