VPD: Create a Vitality Playlist based on the Valuing in the Presence of Difficulty Domain.

1. At least 15 songs covering at least 6 of the values in the Domain

2. Post playlist to the service of your choice

3. Submit your playlist to this form and include:

   1. Value

   2. Song

   3. Why it matters to you

Social Media: Create 10 Social Media Posts promoting BOLD Living Skills from binder

1. Canva is a good platform to create on

2. Share via this form

3. You do not have to post them, but are welcome to. We will likely post.

Haiku: Write 3 haiku poems each expressing a different emotion

1. The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with

   1. five syllables in the first line,

   2. seven syllable in the second, and

   3. five syllables in the third.

2. Turn your Haikus in here.

Emotional Art Series: (At least 3 different artistic works)

1. Each creation expressing a different emotion

2. Choose your own medium (pencil, charcoal, paint, gel pen, etc…)

3. Take photos of your artwork and submit them here!

Song: Express a strong emotion in a song.

1. Does not have to have music, but

2. Must include at least 2 verses & a chorus

3. Submit your song here

Story: Express a strong emotion through a fictional story

1. Minimum 7-10 paragraphs

2. Has a beginning, a middle and an end

3. Post it here!

Photo: Take pictures or find images that express 5 different emotions

1. Give each image a meaningful title

   • 5 if you take the pictures

   • 10 if you use stock images that you find

2. Submit photos here

Past Authoring: Examine the past. Unresolved past issues make your mind and body react as if the day-to-day environment that you inhabit is permanently dangerous. Find some peace through telling your own story

1. Describe in detail four significant experiences that happened to you during your life. You can describe positive and negative experiences.

2. For each experience, provide a title, a description of the experience and the impact this experience has had on your life.

3. Limit each event to approximately 1,000 characters

4. Submit your Past Authoring here

Present Authoring: Understand the present, including your faults and virtues

1. Faults: Make a list of 7-10 negative aspects, bad habits or faults of your personality and rank order them in how you think they have most interfered with your life. For the top three, describe how this fault has impacted you negatively, in the past; what you might have done differently; and what you could do now and in the future to rectify or eliminate this fault.

2. Virtues: Make a list of 7-10 positive aspects or virtues of your personality and rank order them how you think have most positively impacted your life. For the top 3, describe how this virtue has strengthened you in the past; what you might have done differently to have made things even better; and what you could do now and in the future to increase the power and effect of this virtue.

3. Submit your Present Authoring here

Future Authoring: Plan for the future

1. In this exercise you will begin to create a version, in writing, of your ideal future.

2. Think about the next year to 18 months. Jot some short answers around:

   • If you could choose only one thing that you could do better, what would it be? What habits would you like to improve?

   • Think about the friends you might want to have, and the connections you might want to make.

   • Describe what your leisure life would be like

   • Think about the two or three people you most admire. Who are they? Which qualities do they possess that you wish you had?

3. After briefly answering these questions, write for 15 minutes about your ideal future, without editing or criticism. Write whatever comes to mind. Don't worry too much about sentence construction, spelling, or grammar. Avoid criticizing what you write. Premature criticism interferes with the creative process.

4. Submit your Future Authoring here