Hello!

It was really important to me that we create space in our calendar this year between each of the Live Creatively challenges. I wanted all of us to have time to reflect on the experience before jumping into the next 30 day commitment. Since we have 8 challenges this year, there is roughly two weeks between each one and I thought that during that downtime we could use this moment to ask ourselves some questions like:

• Did I enjoy the challenge?

• Do I want to keep going with this new habit?

• If yes, do I want to keep it in my daily routine? Or move it to a weekly thing?

• What benefits did I get from the 30 days?

• Are there any other systems that I need to put in place so that I can be more successful in my next Live Creatively challenge?

  • Some ideas could be:

  • Print the calendar so I have a visual reminder

  • Make an alarm on my phone so I don't forget

  • Tell my friends so I have extra accountability

  • Reach out to people in the Live Creatively Facebook group for more support

I have to admit though that when we first entered this "2-week rest and reflection" period last Wednesday post Live Creatively Challenge 1, it felt so strange to not check a box when I stepped out of the shower every day. So today after seeing one of your posts in the Facebook group about your Habit Tracker, I decided to make one for myself for the month of February. And of course, when I showed David and Lou they both wanted one as well, so I made a few more!

Going forward with the cold showers, I've decided that I'm only going to check off a day if I do a minute or longer in cold water. I’ve found it very helpful when making new habits that I make the bar to getting that “check-done you did it feeling” as low as possible. This way there’s less of a chance for you to get overwhelmed and lets weeks and months pass without doing your new habit. So for me, after a month of 5 minutes in the freezing water every day, I think 1 minute should be no problem.

I'm really curious how often we'll do the habits listed in our charts and if you're curious I can share them filled out at the end of the month.

I'd love to hear your experience of the first 30 day Live Creatively challenge and if you're going to continue taking cold showers! Are you someone who likes to track their habits or do you prefer to do whatever feels good to you each day?

February 18th aka next Tuesday our Second Live Creatively Challenge will be launching! It is going to be 30 Days of Meditation and we are so excited about this challenge. Meditation has changed my life and Lou’s as well, and we’re hoping that David falls in love with it this month too. Our Meditation Tutorial video featuring our teacher Eddie Vero, should be ready for you by next Monday at the latest and will be available on the eBook Resources section of the website. Remember to access that section use the password - growth.

I hope you’re having a beautiful week so far and we apologize for the lack of video content this week. We’ll be back to normal programming next Tuesday to kick off our Iceland series!

Big hugs,

Dana (Lou & David)

PS We're launching a Patreon this Friday and will be sending out an extra newsletter later this week to update you on this exciting adventure! Right now our Patreon page is pretty sparse, but I promise there will be lots of great rewards on there very soon.