#25 For a Healthier Life, Upgrade Yourself and Make Love

Audit the conditions of your hardware. Bones, teeth, skin, hair, organs — brain, heart, digestive tract, eyes, all of them. Do what you have to to get them in good shape.

Audit your hardware functioning — your bathroom functions, your sleep, how it feels to eat something. Pay attention, evaluate, and name what is less than optimal so you can improve it.

Audit your software functioning— your system of thinking and feeling. It was programmed by other people at a young age. At your age, time, and place, your software may have disastrously obsolete functions and lacking in essential functions.

Seek help with these audits. It’s impossible for you to be objective or 100% aware of how your hardware and software may be different from others and/or malfunctioning, and what to do about it.

Be patient in this process of diagnosing, debugging, and when you have to, restarting. Don’t be afraid to write new code and reprogram your systems. Give yourself time.

Open your heart to self-compassion. It is not entirely your fault you became this way. It is your power and responsibility to change it if you want to.

Figure out why you want what you want. Your reasons are yours. Pick and choose from what others say — what is helpful and what is noise. You deserve the love, help, and happiness you seek.

Make love. First to yourself.

Clean up and cuddle.

Repeat.

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This is Day 25 of Don’t Break the Chain, a writing course by Cole Schafer. Want to read his stuff? Sign up for his newsletter, Sticky Notes.

Today’s prompt: Write an instruction manual for life in the form of a Tweet thread totaling no more than 10 Tweets.