In Day 28 of the 30 Days Healthy Habits Challenge, Cheryl McColgan, founder of Heal, Nourish, Grow, emphasizes the importance of genuine social connections for mental and physical well‑being in an increasingly digital world. She instructs participants to choose a specific supportive activity—such as a walking date, coffee meet‑up, phone call, book club, or support group—and to put that activity on their calendar with a concrete date and time, turning intention into action. Cheryl notes that introverts and extroverts may prefer different formats, encourages scheduling as soon as possible, and points viewers to the habit tracker, email, and the website healnourishgrow.com/habits for further resources. The episode ends with a reminder to continue the challenge through the final days.
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Hey everyone. I'm Cheryl McColgan, founder of Heal, Nourish, Grow, and welcome to day 28 of the 30 Days Healthy Habits Challenge. Today we're going back to connection. We did this earlier in the challenge, but I think it's really important to hit on it again because in this day and age where everything has become text and social media and learning things about your friends and people in that way, sometimes, uh, reaching out and making true connections is becoming more and more valuable. And it is so related to good health, good mental health, good physical health. Community, a strong support group, people finding new people to connect with. And so today's habit is make it happen. So it's gonna be a social or supportive thing on the calendar. So I would say that this could be, you know, an event, a social meeting with a person that you already know, or if we're calling it a supportive thing, it could be more like seeking out a book club or a support group or a way to meet new people. So either one that you choose, and one may be easier than the other, depending on if you're introverted or extroverted, but you're going to do one thing like that. So it'll be to schedule this social time. You're gonna get real support in real time, hopefully boost some happiness, get a few laughs, and putting it on the calendar turns this intention into an actual plan. The planning part is key because we all have intentions, right? How many times does somebody say to you, oh, we should get together, but they don't actually make a date or make a plan for doing and mental health and physical health. Um, so one of the things that you could choose to do if you wanna the mental health and physical health is to do something like make a walking date, just take a walk with a friend, go for a walk in nature, go for a walk on the treadmill next to each other, but somewhere that you can talk and interact and actually have real connection. You can go for a coffee. It could even be a phone call if you can't get together in person, but set aside time that you're actually gonna do it. And both people have availability. Yeah, so time and date, leave it as sometime is not okay. It's gotta be a plan. It's gotta be on the calendar. It's gotta be like, uh, if it's something that you can't accomplish this week, I just want you to get on the calendar. It can be something in the future, but I really want you to intend to treat it as part of the calendar and actually do it. But if you can this week or today or tomorrow, actually have that interaction, have that scheduled time with somebody, the sooner the better. There's no time like the present, right? As always, the Links will be in your tracker and in today's email. And if you're finding this in the future on YouTube or on the podcast, you can sign up at any time. It doesn't matter when you find this. It's healnourishgrow.com/habits. And that is it for today. As always, I will see you again tomorrow. We're getting closer towards the end.
