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Posted: 2017-03-01T13:27:04Z | Updated: 2017-03-01T22:37:56Z Menless March: The Ultimate Self-Love Challenge | HuffPost

Menless March: The Ultimate Self-Love Challenge

Menless March: The Ultimate Self-Love Challenge
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If youre up with the food and health trends, you may have heard of Meatless Mondays. Thats good and all, but here at Never Liked It Anyway were proposing a new idea for you allMenless March. That's right. It's time to give up men and all their complications, just for a month. Basically this will be a month where you stop wasting time bouncing from one disastrous date to the next, and focus on doing cool, fun and genuinely interesting stuff...just for you.

The goal is get yourself so confident, energetic and red hot that you are ready to tear up a storm come April!

Here are 20 things to try for Marchand you have 31 days to get them all done! Easy as pie....You've got this!

1. Listen to a new Podcast to learn something new, laugh or kickstart a new hobby. Some of our favs are Anna Faris is Unqualified, My Favorite Murder, Stuff You Should Know and Welcome to Nightvale.

2. Re-vamp your wardrobe. Get rid of the clutter in your current closet by tossing items you haven't worn in the past year. Get donating, or sell it on Never Liked It Anyway (of course). It's the perfect excuse to fill that closet back up with some good newbies. Make sure you get some bell sleeves in there.

3. Take a spontaneous weekend trip! A road trip, or last minute flight deal found online, pack that suitcase, book the hotel and get traveling!

4. Go to a concertfor that same night and a band youve never heard of. Last minute ticket sale deals are always the best, plus it might make you have to try out some new music you didnt think youd like before. You can always check out the bands on Spotify before you buy, but it might be even more fun if you dont.

5. Make a pump-up playlist and share it with your friends. Maybe its to pump you up to workout, bake, write, garden, or just for good ol jamming out at home.

6. Pins, patches and stickers are so hot right now. Collect new ones, resurrect the long lost ones, and even make some of your own. Someone you know is bound to have a pin maker lying around, or drop $30 and treat yourself to a brand new one just for you!

7. Learn how to do a new hairstyle or makeup look by watching Youtube tutorials made by someone half your ageand actually perfect it. Hey, if Youtube existed while we were teens we can pretend we would have done the same.

8. Sign up for a race. There are Mud Runs, Color Runs, Zombie, Murder Mystery Runsyou name it, you can run from it! Have something to look forward to and training for once it gets warmer out.

9. Learn to cook a signature meal instead of only watching reruns of Chopped while perusing Seamless.

10. Jump around! Try out a trampoline class, dance around your home, take a step class, get chalk and draw some hopscotch on the pavement, or go old school and buy a pogo stick. Whatever way you do it, jumping will get your heart rate pounding!

11. Keep a f*cking gratitude journal. We all know we should do it. We never do it. Now's your chance.

12. Adopt a word. That's right, there's a whole bunch of cool words going extinct and they need your help! Pick a perantique word, use it a sentence every day for 31 days, just like a phlyarologist to keep it sospital. Uh-hum.

13. Create your own cocktail. Maybe itll be Pinterest-inspired, maybe itll be a concoction you can put together by scraping up the remnants of your liquor cabineteither way, give it a signature name and toast to something fabulous!

14. Become a mini-expert. Pick something really, really obscure, like a wine varietal, a beetle, a forgotten Greek god) and learn 20 things about it. Drop your wisdom on people you meet as much as you can, especially strangers and people you've just met.

15. Denim is set to be distressed this season. Before you drop $300 on jeans that look like they came from the dumpster, try it yourself. Take a pair of jeans, cut them, rip them, bleach them, sandpaper them, razor them and enjoy making a mess of things. Think of it as creative destruction.

16. Take yourself on a date! Start at a cool funky caf, head to a museum, take all the long backroads while blasting your fav jams and end at a hip wine bar for a flat bread pizza and a flight of ros. We'll see you there.

17. Redecorate your place. Buy a book on Feng shui, hire an interior decorator, or channel all those tips youve learned from binge-watching HGTV. Get rid of those succulents that were so 2016, and make way for hanging plants, farmhouse style and swatches of deepwater blues.

18. Learn Beyonces Reformation dance move by move and casually drop the sequence when youre on the dance floor like its NBD.

19. Discover a kooky bookstore and peruse the shelves. Not just your regular Barnes and Noblefind a bookstore with character that looks like it'll probably shut down next week. Pick a book at random and see what you learn.

20. Laugh it off! Head to a comedy show, open mic night or improv. Make sure you leave home. Netflix and chill doesn't count.

Now off you go! Get ready to challenge yourself and have tons of fun in the process. We promise itll be way more fun than yet another lame first date.... because that's what Menless March is all about. And when April does roll around, you'll be so fired up and fabulous and actually excited to date again.

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