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.