Lent Calendar 2020, Week Six

My theme for Lent this year is the Road to Resilience. I'm trying to build and strengthen my ability to bounce back from challenges, conflict, and calamity. My goals are:

• Resilience Habits: Resilience has lots of parts - equanimity, flexibility, resolution, tenacity, social intelligence, and optimism to name a few. I want to gradually add in some useful daily habits as a practical way to grow in recilience. 
• Fast from binge eating: I try to choose something to fast from that is a good symbol of how I am trying to grow, and I think my binge eating has a direct connection to feeling overwhelmed by life's challenges. 
• Educate myself: I'm reading the book The Coward's Guide to Conflict: Empowering Solutions for those Who Would Rather Run Than Fight. 
• Inner work: Ground myself in journaling, meditation, and prayer to connect to my core of peace and courage. 
• Take creative action: Take decisive action on adverse or challenging situations as they arise, and use my creative super powers to grow, and make the world better. 

March 29, 5th Sunday of Lent-
1. Journal queries: What have I learned so far from my Lenten fast and study? What is the next step to take?

Ground myself in optimistic hope for the future, and become more open to the best actions to take.

March 30-
2. Resilience habits: For the last two weeks I've worked on optimism habits because optimism is a coping mechanism in times of crisis. I've also worked on equanimity and social intelligence.

This week I'm working on the habit of courageous persistence and tenacity. I want to take decisive action on adverse situations as much possible, rather than detaching from problems and stresses and wishing they would just go away. I plan to be persistent, energetic, and happy to do the work to make my dreams come true.

March 31-
3. Study "The Coward's Guide to Conflict": Read Chapters 15-17 this week. Also, I plan to use my courageous persistence and tenacity to maintain an eye-to-eye communication style, i.e., respectful, honest, and vulnerable.

April 1, April Fool's Day-
4. Send a foolish greeting: Since we are in lock down, not leaving the house very much and not having visitors, the days begin to blur together. Today I want to remember the change of the month and shock my kids with an outrageous text first thing in the morning.

April 2-

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