You First

Once you decide to carve out time for yourself and begin to analyze how you usually spend your time, you really see how much of your daily agenda is filled with all of the things and people that you put above and before yourself. Children aside, you can feel guilty choosing you and put yourself on the back burner indefinitely. This coming year calls for a fresh start, perspective, and posture on your standing on your own totem pole. It will require a lot of new disciplines. You will need to distance yourself from your neediest friends and family. You will need to slow down, minimize, or take a break from the messiness, chaos, and drama other people bring to you from their lives. You will need to make a conscious effort to avoid overexertion. Your newfound, grade A commitment to remember you will require that you stop allowing yourself to ignore your own needs to fulfill the demands of those around you. The guilt will still be there, at least initially, but eventually you will feel the difference in giving of yourself from a position of strength and plenty than one of depletion and lacking. No longer scraping the bottom of your barrel to take care of yourself will ultimately result in better care for you and everyone that needs you too. ~For more positive posts stop by fb.me/TheAnswerKey & tweet me  @_TheAnswerKey daily!


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