1. Wake Up
Open your eyes at least once for the day at whatever time you please. You don’t have to stay awake if you don’t feel like it. You don’t have to leave your bed if you don’t feel like it. It’s your choice how you want to spend your day – so start it off the way you want to (or at least the closest thing to what you want, since external obligations can get in the way of that).2. Choose your meals
That may seem like an incomplete sentence, but it’s not. To whatever degree you can, choose what you eat. Eat or don’t eat the cheesecake – it’s up to you! And whichever you choose, choose it for you. You get to pick what fuels your body – so make a conscious decision to enjoy your food. If you find satisfaction in eating an organic salad with all kinds of nuts and fruit, then eat it because you want to. Plus, damn…those salads can be real tasty when you make them right. Or you can eat an entire pizza. Seriously, no one is going to stop you other than, well, you.3. Wear clothes that make you feel
Pick your clothes for how you feel in them, not how you want others to feel about you in them. Let them express how you feel! Or let the express the opposite of how you feel to challenge your own perspective! Or just grab what’s on top if the pile if you feel that fashion isn’t your thing. Dress yourself like yourself. Whatever that means. Even if you feel best naked, you can do that (in certain circumstances, however, you may want to consider the legality of this clothing option).4. Use your face
If you’re happy, smile. If you’re not happy, you don’t have to smile. Or you can, if you want to try to cheer up. But don’t feel obligated. You have a unique face filled with so many muscles and possibilities for expression- use them!5. Connect and Disconnect
Say hi to a random stranger, or walk with headphones in. Spend all day in nature or spend all day on Facebook/(insert hip and trendy social network here). Do both! Change it up! Try one and see if you like it – and if you don’t, then you never have to do it again! They are all valuable and they are all valid. Connect to whomever you want to because you feel the impulse, not just because I told you to.6. Be absolutely totally obsessed with something
Then change your obsession tomorrow. Feel what it’s like to commit all your energy to something – or try being obsessed with a few things – or even try being obsessed with finding out as many unrelated things as possible! Spread your energy as widely or as narrowly as you please, as long as you control where you put your focus.7. Be a sponge
Try to learn something new every day, even if it’s only the repetition of something you already know. Learn something about yourself. Learn something about empowering yourself. Learn something about making decisions. Learn how to breathe a little deeper. Or even a little more shallow. Then assess the change.You can also dress up as Spongebob Squarepants. That will fulfill this step.
