Mindful Month

Month of awareness, good habits, and self-love

Hi! I’m Ksenia, and this is my mindfulness project that I created with my friends in 2017. It started as a mailing list designed to teach people how to live a calm and happy life.

Think of it as an advent calendar, but instead of sweets, you get a short, easy task for each day of the month. These tasks include meditating for 5 minutes, avoiding phone use for a day, practicing gratitude, and more. Many of these tasks have the potential to become lasting habits.

Originally, this was distributed as a newsletter, but the platform I used suspended my account. So, I’ve decided to share these messages here instead. Using AI, I’ve translated all the content and created new accompanying images.

Letters

1. Get some rest
2. Meditate for 5 minutes
3. Brush your teeth consciously
4. Consciously eat lunch
5. Chocolate Meditation
6. Be with yourself for half an hour
7. Ask yourself, why do what you're doing
8. Have lunch without a phone
9. Leave your phone at home
10. Don't check social media
11. Clean up your social media feeds
12. Don't read or watch the news
13. Turn off notifications
14. Spend the day offline
15. Delete social media apps
16. Unsubscribe from newsletters
17. Clean up the workplace
18. Write down obligations to yourself and to others
19. Write down the three most important things for today
20. Get rid of the things you don't use
21. Take a walk
22. Go to bed an hour earlier
23. Leave your phone, computer, and tablet outside the bedroom
24. Call a friend or relative you haven't talked to for a long time
25. Talk to your loved one
26. Remember to whom and for what you are grateful
27. Write down activities that bring joy and don't
28. Write down what you most want
29. Thank yourself
30. Thank you and goodbye

What readers say

More than 3000 people subscribed and shared feedback like the following:

— This advent calendar is just a bomb. I think it should be exhibited in the museum of new media. It’s like augmented reality, just not another stupid game on an iPhone, but something meaningful.

— Thank you! I really liked your idea, and I did most of the exercises. There is more order in life

— Thank you! Thanks to your course, I was inspired and deleted the application in contact from my phone! And I can say that life without an app is great! Thanks! And I feel that this is not the last change — I found an android application, QualityTime, which tracks the running applications and the time of their use. Still waiting for me optimization!