What did you take on for elul (and hopefully beyond!)

amother

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 8:24 pm

amother

Trillium

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 8:31 pm

No Netflix.

amother

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 8:37 pm

amother Trillium wrote:

No Netflix.

Wow I got the chills!! Look Hashem! Keep em coming ladies!

amother

Turquoise

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 8:46 pm

No TV show or movie clips or full shows, on Facebook and YouTube.

happy7

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 9:14 pm

No secular podcasts. Trying for a week. Will see if I can do it longer.

realtalk

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 9:21 pm

Calling in Bitachon Hotline daily

amother

Garnet

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 9:25 pm

realtalk wrote:

Calling in Bitachon Hotline daily

Sounds nice what's the number?

strawberry cola

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 9:26 pm

not coming late, making people wait for me

saying brachos with more concentration

skyeblue

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 11:08 pm

Ladies, this is so beautiful!

naturalmom5

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 11:17 pm

I will try bli neder not to strangle DH till after YC

amother

Obsidian

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 11:19 pm

skyeblue wrote:

Ladies, this is so beautiful!

Yes, thank you everyone for the inspiration

amother

Buttercup

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 11:21 pm

no non jewish music and watching my language, stopping to use certain words.

hodeez

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 11:23 pm

amother OP wrote:

Wow I got the chills!! Look Hashem! Keep em coming ladies!

Pun intended?

hodeez

Wed, Aug 31 2022, 11:23 pm

I am trying to give my kids more undivided attention and patience

grace413

Thu, Sep 01 2022, 5:56 am

Trying to not speak LH.

amother

Cyclamen

Thu, Sep 01 2022, 6:10 am

amother OP wrote:

What did you take on for elul (and hopefully beyond!)

Nishmat and a portion of tehilim daily, but I am failing at this.

amother

Cappuccino

Thu, Sep 01 2022, 6:23 am

Trying to not to forget to say Brachos over food. (yes, it happens to me). The Brachos I say, I try to say aloud. I also have been trying to hear other family members say their Brachos so I can answer Amain. Trying to daven mincha.

SuperWify

Thu, Sep 01 2022, 6:25 am

No non Jewish music. I canceled my Spotify subscription (so I save money win-win) and made a Jewish music playlist on Amazon music.

I’d love to stop Netflix. I can’t 😬

I’m also reading the Orange Rhino. I hope that will spill over into my life…

amother

Junglegreen

Thu, Sep 01 2022, 6:45 am

Sigh. Last Elul and the one before I felt like I was growing so much. Between Covid and the multiple tragedies we'd been hit with, I was taking on several kaballos at a time, really keeping track of how I was doing with them, and seeing real growth. Things like being patient with my kids at a specific time of day that was hard for me, calling a relative who lives alone once a week (instead of "sometime" -- which meant once a month or less), having kavanah during a certain part of davening, avoiding a nasty habit I'd gotten into, etc. And it wasn't even just during Elul, I was on such a high that I'd keep it up for the long term and take on new things several months later when I felt I'd mastered the couple I was working on.

This year I'm having a difficult pregnancy (B"H!!! just still hard) and everything has gone out the window. Davening the bare minimum, cutting all possible corners in all areas in order to survive. I want to take on something for Elul but other than "make sure my kids have clean clothes to wear" and "don't collapse at the end of the day and throw everything onto DH," I feel like I don't even have the emotional strength to have the willpower to STOP doing anything bad, forget about adding on anything good.

But this thread has motivated me to try. So I wake up in the morning very slowly these days due to some of the pregnancy symptoms, and I've decided to take on saying EITHER modeh ani, netillas yadaim, asher yatzar, or elokai while actually thinking about the words instead of on autopilot. I'd love to say all, but right now at least saying I'll do one of them means that I have a few backups when I forget or get distracted...

Therapist1

Thu, Sep 01 2022, 7:34 am

What a Beautiful thread.

I am working on not watching TV clips on YouTube.

No secular music.

No secular dance clips.

It's hard.