You Before Life

In life people tend to prioritize careers. They’ll prioritize they’d finances. They’ll prioritize people. They’ll prioritize their home. They’ll prioritize a vacation before the person going on it. Everything comes before the most important person in the entire scenario, you!

With the advancement of technology it seems that it has made life busier. It was supppsed to have been a way to make life simpler but in all honesty, it’s made life a constant cycle of doing more and more.

Think about the early 2000’s. It was a simpler and more efficient period in time because now people spend so much time looking at all of the technological devices, it has created in reality, less time, than more.

In life there are so many other things that need or desire your time but when is it time for you? Between people, places and things it can be extremely difficult to find a moment, let alone a day that’s just yours and while it can be hard to find, that is the most important thing that needs everyone single person needs.

If you can’t find a whole day find a few hours but if you can’t even find just one day then what’s it all for anyways? When life becomes as demanding as it is, you need a day. Do anything you have to, to find this day because this one day will deter burnout, it will deter sickness, it will deter feeling overwhelmed and it will deter depression because when you’re going and going with no end in sight, life can become a never ending cycle of everything else except you.

You matter in this journey. You are important. You need to make self care an absolute priority. Slow down, even if only for a day each month, that day will give you that something you may need to look forward to to get you through the next 29!

The end goal is not the destination it’s the walk through life and you can only have a happy and fulfilled walk if you are happy and fulfilled.

Plan a day. Do everything you love doing. Pamper yourself and at the end of this “all about me” day you’ll feeling completely rejuvenated and refreshed. When you feel happier you tend to make those around you happier too. Happiness is contagious.

Take a minute and think about what your perfect “self care” day would look like. Okay so now you have it pictured in your mind. Doesn’t it look beautiful? Do you have a piece of paper close by? Mo, no not a notepad on another piece of technology, that’s what you’re trying to step away from. Just a good ole blank piece of paper. Okay, so you have one now? Great! Write down your perfect day. Feel the emotions that go along with your perfect day. Do you feel it? Wonderful! You are now planning your perfect day. Now all you need is a date at the top of that piece of paper to make it official.

Congratulations. You’ve just taken that much needed first step in figuring out who the most important character is in your story! You!

The story of your life started and ends with you. All of the goodness that takes up all of the days inbetween will have created such an amazing adventure but if you don’t make you the priority every once in a while, this life is going to go from this amazing adventure to an overworked and undiscovered trek through life that on even your best day will feel just fine.

Who wants just a fine life? If you ask someone how they’re doing, the most robotic response is “I’m fine how are you”? Don’t just be fine, be gushing with happiness and joy and the only way to do that is to find soloice and peace, you find that through you.

No external person, place or thing will ever bring that to you and you need to make you and your “self care day”s a necessity.There is only ever going to be one of you so taking care of you for you and everyone else who gets to share this life with you is just like the air that goes into your lungs each time you take a breath, crucial for life.

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