Challenge yourself

Choose one of these tasks for today and let us know tomorrow!

Perform One Act of Kindness

Time: 20-60m+

Choose anything you want, big or small, as long as it is something you would not have otherwise done.

Choose a Self-Care Resource for Dealing with COVID-19

Time: 10-60m

Engage with one talk or reading from leading psychologists and mindfulness teachers.

Be More Extraverted

Time: up to 24hrs

Try to act as talkative, assertive, and spontaneous as you can during the whole day or find a situation during a day to act this way.

Suggestions for Being More Extroverted

Meditation

Time: 5-25m

Try a guided meditation or use a meditation app.

Guided Meditation Resources

Exercise

Time: 8-75m

Choose one of the suggested exercises to boost your energy, health and mood.

Exercise Suggestions and Videos

Gratitude Letter

Time: 8m+

Think back over the past several years of your life and remember an instance when someone did a kind act for you. Write a letter to them.

Instructions for the Gratitude Letter

Counting Blessings

Time: 5-15m

Write down up to five things that happened today or in the last week for which you are grateful.

Instructions for Counting Blessings

Best Possible Self

Time: 10m+

Take a moment to think about your best possible self in one of these four realms: Academic/Professional/Social/Health. Then write about what you imagined.

Instructions for Writing about One’s Best Possible Self

Self-Affirmation

Time: 15-40m

Think of one of your values. Describe three or four personal experiences in which the value was important to you and made you feel good about yourself.

Suggestions of Values to Write About

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