I asked you all on instagram this question, and got some great responses! Here’s what I’m keeping from 2020, plus your brilliant ideas as well…
What New Habit from 2020 Are You Bringing into 2021?
For myself, I’ve started long night walks. It started this summer with my mother when we were staying with them in Park City while hunting for a relocation city, and I looked forward to them so much. The fresh air, the stars, and then collapse into bed afterwards. Dreamy way to end the day!
“I started doing advanced home renovation projects and I discovered that I can figure out anything with YouTube! I plan to continue doing home projects.”
– Amelia Johnson in Charlottesville, VA
“The thing I’m taking with me from 2020 to 2021 is our daily neighborhood walks. We’ve learned to identify trees, met our neighbors, and played some intense games of 20 questions along the way. Our neighborhood is simple, ordinary. I never would have noticed the beauty in it if our walks hadn’t become our daily escape.”
-Kate Streip in Chattanooga, TN
“I’ve *never* been into exercise for the sake of exercise. I consider myself active in that I love going for long, scrambly hikes and adventures a lot. But something strange has happened during quarantine. I started going for these sunrise walks to help clear my head and be alone a couple times a week. The walks turned into hikes and the hikes turned into what I dub walk/hike/runs, and for the past 6 weeks I’ve been going on solo walk/hike/runs 5 days a week and my knees hurt and the metal rods in my busted spine are like wtf, but I feel so good and so human and honestly so surprised.”
-Anjelika Temple in San Francisco, CA
“I have a few habits I’m carrying through to 2021. One of them is dancing to end my work-from-home day. Getting your heart rate up helps end the stress cycle, preventing burnout. I really notice the difference in how I’m thinking the next day (and I’ve been sleeping better!) I learned it from this book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagaski. (I’ve also been reading a lot more because I’m soooo tired of looking at screens!)
Another thing is my friend, Julia has been making these beautiful hand-poured candles. They smell amazing so I’ve been burning them on a daily basis. They smell so good it’s hard to be in a bad mood. Julia’s company is Aziza’s Flame”
–Peggy Crovetto in Oakland, CA
“Realizing how important it is to go outside, breathe, feel, and move. It’s so connected to my mental and physical well being. The beach was a big part of 2020 for me and I want to carry that into 2021 but I am feeling even more grateful for our neighborhood of Bernal Heights in San Francisco. The middle of the neighborhood is one giant hill, and that hill gave me life in even the darkest days of lockdown with two little humans looking to me for everything. There are so many winding streets, hidden parks, lovely staircases and adventures to find. Getting outside provides the reset and new focus we all need. And if I’m able to escape for 40 minutes alone or with a neighbor to huff up the hill my brain literally changes and I’m a ready to dive back into reality once again.”
– Lindy Caldwell in San Francisco, CA
“When lockdown first started I was a student at Oxford with lots of time on my hands. When home I needed a schedule to help me cope, so I committed to reading for at least an hour a day. Almost a year on, I’m still going and have read so many brilliant books.”
–Kat Pellereau in Buckingham, UK
“Friday night movie nights with my kids. We never did this as a family before the pandemic, but my youngest turned 4 last May, so is old enough now that we can watch kid movies we can all enjoy (my husband, my 7 yr old and the 4 yr old). My kids look forward to it all week, and tbh so do I! I used to be really busy, but Friday night are now sacred for the family.”
– Elian
I was kind of a self-consciously non-athletic kid—I remember the school jog-a-thon being my least favorite day of the year—and once I was an adult I never really worked out until my 30s, when I weight lifted half-heartedly for a few years after having kids. I’ve always had weird joints with lots of random ankle or knee pain, and had a back injury in my late 20s that would flare up every year or two; running just felt out of the question! But my best friend started running a few years ago & in 2019 she decided she’d run 1000 miles in one year, and she did it. I was really inspired by watching her do something new and just…make it happen. So when I went from walking miles every day to never during quarantine, I downloaded Couch to 5k and started slowly working through it. I’m still really slow but I’m proud of myself for even trying! It gets me out of the house 3-4 times a week, by myself, listening to podcasts and daydreaming about the houses in the neighborhoods I run through!”
– Kate Flaim of Boston, MA
What new habit have you brought into 2021?
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In my opinion, I should only bring the habit of clean and hard work from 2020 to 2021. puzzle jigsaw For other habits I should end it from 2020 to start the new year with the latest.
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