Daily Tender Job Description

Appendix II from my transformational memoir

Moonshot: aim high, dive deep, live an extraordinary life

Daily Tender Job Description by Amy Elizabeth Gordon MA

Daily Tender is a simple position of ultimate and radical self-care. It’s a call to action in these unimaginable times. Here’s a quick list of the duties, responsibilities and privileges of this enlightened role.

• Smile upon awakening.
• Give thanks for this moment.
• Stretch and massage. Make love, alone or with beloved.
• Make the bed.
• Relieve self of what is no longer needed by tapping into Source.
• Brush teeth.
• Dry skin brush and cold shower — most mornings.
• Practice Yoga, daily.
• Breathe, consciously, while the hot water in the tea kettle boils.
• Meditate.
• Consume yummy food and lots of love and hugs.
• Tidy the kitchen.
• Chore day Sunday.
• Assemble hydration station every morning for tea, coffee, water.
• Water garden (literally and figuratively).
• Express thanks. Often.
• Chant. Buddhist prayers, yoga prayers, Hawaiʻi prayers.
• Sweep the floor, removing the dust of yesterday.
• Exercise outdoors.
• Exhibit discipline around tech. Adopt fairly strict media diet.
• Write, create, make a mess.
• Switch from the mentality of performance driven living of Do, Be, Have, to a new emphasis on ways of being with: Be, Do, Have.
• Keep appointments with people. Be timely.
• Coach and be coached.
• Invest in wellbeing.
• Cherish time with family.
• Stop when triggered, drop what I’m doing, and breathe.
• Deeply breathe.
• Clean up my side of the street and set right wrongs I’ve made.
• Allow space for grace to enter in a way that is indeed miraculous.
• Express thanks. Yes, again.
• Read inspiring words.
• Play. Dance. Laugh: pepper these throughout the day.
• Connect with friends on Wednesday, We-day, if not more often.
• Surrender to what is.