Your well-being is up to you, because you are the best person to know exactly what your well-being requires. Honor that responsibility. Revel in that power. Cherish your well-being. Be an active advocate for it. And respect others in their own journey with well-being.
Tag: self-love
Treat Yourself With Kindness
Treat yourself with kindness. You are the most influential person in your life, and you're always there with yourself. So, how you treat yourself is crucial to your sense of well-being. There are a lot of outside forces that would rather you are hard on yourself, because you're easier to manipulate that way. What's worse, … Continue reading Treat Yourself With Kindness
Yourself
The longest relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself. The most intimate relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself. Let's face it, you're there with yourself during and for everything. So, since this relationship is literally till death do you part, it might be in … Continue reading Yourself
Action
Start loving who you are now. Find what you can love about your life right now. Start feeling excited about getting to wake up each day, and be you. There's no need to wait for certain conditions to happen before you can love yourself. Those conditions may never happen, and even if they do, you'll … Continue reading Action
Polite
Be mindful of what you get good at doing, because you'll end up doing it for the rest of your life. This can pertain to a particular set of vocational skills, or to how good you get at putting up with toxic behavior from others. The more you let others get away with treating you … Continue reading Polite
Decide
You have to make a decision that you are going to love your life. You can't just want it. If you just want to love your life, then you're going to start to settle with being okay with it. And that leads onto a slippery slope then, of mostly being disappointed with it. The whole … Continue reading Decide
Party
I have one of those day-to-day calendars. This one has a fresh quote each day from author Jen Sincero, who wrote the bestseller: You are a Badass. Today's quote is "LOVE YOURSELF And life becomes a party." It's a great quote, and considering that today is my birthday (I actually write these posts the night … Continue reading Party
Mistakes
If you've made a mistake, then congratulations! You've now, (hopefully) learned a valuable lesson. And so, you don't need to keep reliving it in your mind, in all its cringe-worthy detail. Living through it once should suffice. But why do we like to replay those embarrassingly low points of our lives over and over, on … Continue reading Mistakes
Choose
Give yourself permission to choose what is best for yourself, and then choose it. It can be anything you feel is best, so long as it is never at the expense of another. This is for you. So choose what is best for you. No-one else can, or frankly will, make that choice. It's up … Continue reading Choose
Forgiveness is not One-and-Done
Practicing forgiveness is so important for your mental health. Forgiveness helps free you from the burden of being weighed down by anger and resentment. But it doesn't have to be such a significant and ultimate decision. I recently heard author Glennon Doyle give this great description of forgiveness. She said, Forgiveness is not a before … Continue reading Forgiveness is not One-and-Done
Love Yourself
Love Yourself. It just might be the most important thing you can do. It's certainly fundamental to a healthy self esteem. A healthy self esteem enables you to make good choices for your life. Making good choices for your life, can make a it a joyful one. A joyful life is one worth living. That's … Continue reading Love Yourself
The choice is easy.
In the Bible there's a famous story of King Solomon's judgement. Solomon had been gifted wisdom from God, which he demonstrated when two women came to him, each claiming that they were the true mother of this baby. He suggested taking a sword and cutting the baby in two, so each woman could take home … Continue reading The choice is easy.