Submissions (Habits, Attitudes)

The deadline for submissions is MAY 30, 2025.

Habits. Attitudes. Breaking bad habits and replacing them with good habits play an important role in self-care. Change your attitude and you can change your life. And self-care - including mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing - is vital to ensuring that your needs are met. It's probably what we neglect the most.

We are looking for true stories about how you realized a certain habit or attitude was detrimental to you, what you did to change that, and the difference it made in your life.

Here are some ideas that might prompt you to recall a story you'd like to share:

Your strategy for making new habits that are better for you

Your strategy for breaking bad habits

How you made a conscious decision to change

How changing your habits and attitudes reduced your stress and improved your fitness, health, relationships, work, fun...

How proper self-care improved your life

What changes did you make to put yourself first on your "To-Do" list?

Did you eliminate people from your life, or at least reduce your exposure to them, as part of your plan? And if you couldn't, did you at least change how you reacted to them?

Did you take back control of your life? Take back the power?

Did stepping outside your comfort zone help you create new, better habits?

How deviating from your routine helped you break a habit

Did keeping a journal help?

How you made a new, good habit and conquered an old, bad one

Breaking familiar patterns and how that helped

Baby steps to change - step by step

Learning to say "no" - setting boundaries

Learning to ask for help

Did you work with someone to make the changes? An accountability partner? A family member or friend?

Did you teach someone else how to break bad habits, make new ones, change their attitude, reclaim their power?

Have you become more assertive or outspoken? Changed how someone treated you?

You have time! If this story callout has prompted you to make a positive change in your life - that one you've been thinking about - then go for it. Make the change and then write about it in a few months!