20 Caregiver Resolutions for 2020
- Let someone make you a meal at least once a week and that someone can be anyone (including a fast-food chain restaurant
- Keep a daily Gratitude Journal and start each day with, “ I am grateful that the World has me”
- Don’t fold any fitted sheets for the entire year, just roll them into a ball
- Once a month go to a playground with a friend, a neighbor, sibling, spouse, co-worker and ask them to push you on the swing
- Stay in the shower or tub 5 minutes longer than you think you should
- At least 4 times this year tell someone that you can’t join that committee, take the extra shift, bake the cookies, take out the trash
- Ask for more hugs for you
- Every time you grocery shop buy at least 1 think just for you
- When someone calls you an “Angel” don’t be modest instead say, “Thank you”
- Cry, you’re allowed
- Find out what makes you laugh so hard you pee your pants and do it/watch it/ listen to it at least once a month
- Find a cheerleader, someone who only tells you you’re wonderful and talk to that person at least every other week. If you can’t find someone, contact me (Dr. Cathy): contact@grandfamilytoday.org
- Make a list of things people can do for you, so when someone asks, “What can I do for you?” you can respond
- Eat the last cookie
- At least once a month serve yourself first
- Eat on paper plates more and do dishes less
- Find a star in the night sky, make a name for it and claim it as your own (you deserve a star)
- Set aside $1 a day on 12/31/2020 buy something just for you
- Go outside everyday look at the sky and listen to the wind, the quiet, the birds, the water, the world
- Keep a God Box/Beyond My Control Box. Take any kind of box, make sure it has some sort of opening like a slit, you may decorate it or not, keep it in a safe place easy to see and access, keep a pad of paper and pen next to it. Whatever your beliefs are write down your needs, worries, requests, frustrations on the paper and place them in your God Box/Beyond My Control Box, because there are some things beyond your control and cannot be fixed by you and that’s okay. You have done so much, all you can do. Placing these in your box acknowledges that and leaves it up to God, fate, the universe, but no longer yours to carry.
Happy New Year. Thank you for who you are and what you are doing every day!
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