We all know that change doesnโt happen overnight. It happens gradually โ day by day, week by week, month by month. And now that a new year stands before us, we are challenging you to gradually build up your life. The monthly Build Up Challenge is an effort to focus on small changes throughout each day, week and month, and building up these small actions over time will lead to significant changes in our lives.
At Orlando Mom, we started 2024 off with intentionally building up positive habits that will help our well-being and allow us to build up our families and homes too.
Each month, we are going to share and challenge you to work on five habits for the month โ one for each of these areas of life:
- Mindfulness
- Physical Wellness
- Emotional Wellness
- Family
- Home
It is our sincerest hope that you will join us and other moms throughout Central Florida by reading about these monthly habits and finding ways that work for you to implement them into your life.
We will be sharing reminders on our Facebookย andย Instagram for these habits. Weโll ask how you are doing tackling each challenge and we want to hear from you so that we can share your progress and help motivate others.
Check out each challenge for the year so far:
THE APRIL CHALLENGE!
Mindfulness โ Practice Box Breathing
- Step 1: Breathe in, counting to four slowly. Feel the air enter your lungs.
- Step 2: Hold your breath for 4 seconds. Try to avoid inhaling or exhaling for 4 seconds.
- Step 3: Slowly exhale through your mouth for 4 seconds.
- Step 4: Repeat steps 1 to 3 until you feel re-centered.
Physical Wellness โ Do a Squat Challenge
Join us for a squat challenge this month! Here is a handy little calendar you can follow along to!
Emotional Wellness โ Date Night with Partner
Be intentional about connecting with your partner! Schedule a date night this month. Check out this list of awesome ideas!
Family โ Date Your Kids
Our OMC Editor, Kattie dates her kids!! She spends times with each of them one on one doing something they love. Give it a go this month! It can be as simple as a coffee date or as elaborate as attending a concert or game together! Invest time in the kids by enjoying things they like to do! Here are a bunch of April local events!
Home โ Deep Clean the Bathroom
My least favorite thing in the world to do…..CLEAN the bathroom!! I’m sure I am not alone in this!!! But, let’s commit to doing a DEEP clean this month!! Grout, baseboards….all the things!!
This is it! this is the Building Up Challenge for April!
Let’s work on the Building up Challenge together until April 30! Then, weโll be back with 5 new habits for May. Remember to comment on our social media posts with how you are doing, we’d love to encourage you and share with others too!
Remember, You’re Doing Great Mama!
