286. 30 Days of OK

As they say, 30 days hath November, and a few others as well…

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I’m Nora McInerny and it’s going to be OK.

Do you know the saying 30 days hath September…April, June and November? I barely do, because I have to google it every time. And by the way, that rhyme simply falls apart after that it’s like, all the rest have 31 except for February which is 28 unless it’s 29 which happens every four years good luck kids!

But! There are 30 days in April. In June. In September. And in November.

And because we’ve always wanted this to be more than just a podcast, we tried something out in April. We did community practice called 30 Days of OK. And over 2,000 of you participated! We sent out one little email every morning to put a little OK in your inbox, and told you to write down ONE ok thing every day. We even made a little PDF tracker you could print and use, which you didn’t have to do but I really wanted to procrastinate and spend two hours formatting it SO THAT IS WHAT I DID!

Some of my OK things in April were:

Not having jet lag when i went to ireland

The sound of the Atlantic ocean

Cadbury chocolate buttons

Having birthday donuts for our neighbor girl at 6am before school starts

Therapy

Singing beautiful boy with my son at bedtime

And my mom NOT dying while we were in ireland!

And some of YOUR ok things in April were: 

Forcing myself to be social and actually having fun when I did it

Spending $75 on a magic wand at age 29 is ok

Going BACK to Target

CHOCOLATE CROISSANT❤️

Found Drain-o to unclog the shower

Seth Meyers!

Bday dinner with so much laughing!

I never liked reading as a kid, but I got a library card and I’m loving reading whatever the hell I want.

And then, when it was over, we asked you how you felt. And you said that 30 days of ok was like CBD VIA EMAIL! That you felt SEEN.

That you realized that even your “meh” days were okay. That you were taking the time to check in on yourself every day, and you want to keep doing it. That just looking for the OK was permission to lower the bar AND showed you just how much really does go OK in a day!

So guess what? We’re going to do 30 days of OK again. We start June 1. We end on June 30 (see how that works). And we have the sign-up in our episode description or at feelingsand.co.

If you signed up last time, you still have to sign up this time! And if you guys like it enough, we’ll do it again in September and November. Because those are the months that hath thirty days. 

Credits:

I’m Nora Mcinerny, this is It’s going to be ok, and we are here every weekday to bring you the opposite of a doom scroll. We also love hearing your OK things, which you can share with us by emailing us at [email protected] or calling 612.568.4441.

We’re an independent podcast, so thanks for being here and sharing with your friends. Our company is called Feelings & Co, purveyor of fine feelings since 1982. This episode was produced by Claire McInerny, written by me, Nora McInerny. And engineered by Amanda Romani. The rest of our team is Marcel Malekbu and Grace Barry, and our theme music is by secret audio.