Have you ever heard the expression, You can’t pour from an empty cup, take care of yourself first? I’m sure you have watched the flight attendant show you that it is important to put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others? This episode is all about fighting the stupid “norm” of putting yourself at the bottom of your to-do list. This episode is to help you establish even the simplest forms of self-care that will not only help calm your anxiety and stress but make you a better person for everyone around you in your business and your home.
You may be struggling to keep all of the things in your life “together”. Something in your life may be heavily requiring your attention, which is making it difficult to keep going at the hustling pace you have set for yourself. You may feel if you let one ball in the air drop, they will all drop and you’ll be screwed. I know that is how I have felt for years, but I’m here to tell you, that is not the truth ladies. Sometimes you need to let one, two, or even 5 of those balls drop so you can take care of the more important ones. You can always start juggling those balls again and this time, you may even be better at it. Or better yet, realize that one or some of those balls don’t serve your bigger purpose anymore and you decide to just leave them out. Sometimes the break of the overwhelm is a blessing in disguise. It allows you to take inventory of your life and incorporate only the things that are serving you at this time. Some of the things that used to be important to us, just aren’t anymore.
If you are a working mama, you know how much things in your life changed after having that baby. Some of the activities and even friends that you had before that time, just don’t fit your new lifestyle and we have to take inventory and purge. Ladies - we have to stop feeling guilty for this. We have to stop worrying about everyone else’s opinion of us. Let me ask you this, what is your opinion of yourself? Do you take care of yourself? Or do you put everyone else in your life, even the ones that you don’t particularly care about or see an ROI on, before yourself? I know that sometimes we sacrifice ourselves and time with the ones we care about for the sake of keeping the peace or making complete strangers happy. If I am speaking to you today and you find yourself nodding your head to the words that are coming out of my mouth, let's keep going here. I have taken the last two weeks to really reflect on this and I am ready to share with you what I have been discovering about myself.
My self-worth is not tied to my presence or the success of my business. For years, I based my success as a human on the success of the work I was completing daily at the office. I wasn’t even considering the amazing things I have been able to complete being a single mama for so many years and the incredible group of people I have around me. Nope! It was all tied to how I spent my life living around the business and my office hours. This week it truly clicked for me. I am not my business. Therefore, I must find ways I can be ME without my business. How can I practice more self-care to truly get in tune with who I am and how I am doing as a human on this planet!
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