Welcome to the age of the Digizine! Here are your January & February Highlights.
This is a shameless plug for my mother, Dr. Leslene Gordon, MS, RD, LD who has been nominated for the Director-at-Large position on the Board of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. If you are a registered dietitian AND a member of the Academy please support her with your vote. Polls open on February 1st and close on February 15th. Mark your calendar and don’t forget to vote. Learn more about her HERE.
Co-Creators & Co-Editors Amanda & Marlon Say
Firstly, I greatly dislike the person who started the meme that this year is 2020 too. That’s just wrong! It’s a new year, a new day and hopefully we are done with that despicable C-word. I hate New Year’s resolutions. No, thanks. If life’s a game, then I am making a playbook. I am the QB, running back and the water-boy. Let’s go!
and spreading joy in this world. Folks have been through the ringer and we all need to proceed through life with compassion and care to our friends, family, neighbors, and most of all enemies. No, I don’t have an arch nemesis but I do have an opportunity to practice grace with those whom I find fault with. Route #4 I am enough. No. Two letters that hold an exceptional amount of power. I need to use them more often. Here we go… No. No. No. I don’t need to
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Marlon
Route #1 I am done with busy. My time is valuable and I refuse to waste it in places where my talents do not lie or in pursuit of something that does not fulfill me. If I neither have confidence nor find joy in a project or task it is at the end of my to do list, most always pushed to tomorrow and then tomorrow’s tomorrow. I am done with it. I must ask myself what person or resource can I use to take this off of my list.
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• Item 1: Non director necessary administrative tasks. Do I need to do this? Is there someone I can train who has the skills, intelligence, and drive to do this? Who can I empower? Who might use this opportunity to grow? • Item 2: How would the “person I want to be” schedule their time? Route #2 Caring for myself is not selfish. I am forever feeling guilty for resting. I constantly say that I don’t have time to go to the gym. Guess what? I do have time. I have all the time in the world but I am choosing to spend it on other priorities as opposed to caring for my body and mind. Sacrificing my own health to “do” for others (work, those two people I made, that nice man I married, etc.) is draining my energy. Thus, I am triggered toward caffeine to increase my productivity and wine to counter all that caffeine! Please note: I love wine. Yum! Yum! Yum!
do this or accomplish that to be worthy of respect, care, or love. I don’t need to answer that email right this second. I have nothing to prove by working late or on the weekend. My child does not NEED a play-date. Actually, can someone please explain this to my eight year old daughter? She’s the worst! So, there you have it: my 2022 playbook. I am going to focus on me. Yeah, me. That person who I look at in the mirror. I criticize and judge her so incredibly harshly. I’m going to work on it. I hope that you all take some time to focus on being your best self for you and the ones around you. You are special. You are worth it. You are about to rock the socks off this New Year. Send me what’s in your playbook for this year. No, I really mean it… YOU… yeah YOU… reading this. Send it to me at amanda@nxtgennetwork.com. - Amanda
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Route #3 Love one another. I am out to love as many people as I can with a mind towards service
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