44: Gifts of the New Year

Happy New Year! This time of year is such a fun time of gift giving and celebration with the people that we love, so today we thought it would be timely to share our perspectives on this timely topic. Gift giving looks different for everybody, and is very personal, so we hope that what we share today helps you be more intentional when giving, and receiving, gifts!

Movement is medicine, and we all know we need to move more, which is why we’re introducing #MOVE365. We may have gotten out of the habit over the past 2-3 years as we’ve worked from home and stayed in more (thanks pandemic!) But it’s time to get moving.

We’re not “New Year’s resolution” people, but we do love the energy that comes with the start of a new year. So for all of 2023, we’re committing to moving EVERY day. Some days will be more strenuous, others will be rest days where we’ll still move, even if just going for a walk or playing outside. Most of all, we can all find a little more fun as we build more movement into our lives!

Are you in? Comment below and then share your efforts and successes on social media and tag us @respectcircles in your post. We’ll share your posts in our stories and may even give away some prizes as we kick off the year with #MOVE365!

And as we’ve been doing the last few months, we’re excited to share our latest nominees for our new Models of Respect segment, highlighting people in the world that are living and demonstrating our Respect Circles values. If you have someone in mind that you’d like to nominate and have featured on a future episode, please let us know!

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In this episode you’ll hear:

Our experiences with gift giving this most recent Christmas [3:21]
The type of gift givers we are and some funny stories we have around gift giving [7:51]
What we think is behind the societal pressures of gift giving [13:41]
How to approach balancing out the meaning, use and value of gift giving [15:55]
What we think we can do to be better at gift giving in the future [19:51]
Exciting details on our #MOVE365 initiative we recently announced on social media [22:16]
What AJ’s will be focusing on in 2023 when it comes to implementing more movement, and why he’s approaching this process in chunks and increments [25:25]
How becoming more intentional about movement, no matter how small the amount, will pay great dividends in your life [26:37]
The way that we plan to be saying “Yes” to more opportunities in this new year, and why we are doing this [27:16]
Introducing this week’s Models of Respect who have demonstrated extraordinary acts of kindness [28:52]