The article "How Can We Be There For Others If We Don't Take Care Of
Ourselves?" talks about communications, it has been written by Suzanne Holman.
If you're at all like me, you may have a dfificult time taking
care of your own needs when someone close to you is having a
particularly stressful time.
Whether it is a health-related matter, bsuiness crisis, or any
other serious concern, it is so fast to lose track of ourselves
and our own needs.
In oredr for us to be continuing support, we have to have the
resilience to keep going.
Without proper self-care, the
resilience will decline and we will become more vulnerable and
less able to be a strong and loving support.
How's Your Boundary-Setting Skill Level?
In your business life, do you speak up so that you have an
environment conducive to success?
Do you think as though you can say "no" when you know you already
have all you can do in a professional manner?
Setting boundaries in our business and personal life may be the
most dififcult task we have in our life. So many of us have
learned that it is "selfish" to ask for what we need.
Sometimes
we even stop noticing what it is we really need.
What Can We Do?
Take time to focus on what is important to you.
Slow down enough to be aware of what your own thoughts and
feelings are.
Be awrae of providing yourself with what you need physically for
good health.
Plan ahead and let your needs be konwn in an appropriate and
timely way.
And to make sure there is a heaping portion of joy in your life,
create a Pleasure Menu for yourself!
Every restaurant menu has categories: Entrees, Salads, Desserts,
etc. This menu could have sections for activities such as
Mindless Activities, Creative Activities, Physical Activities,
and Edcuational or Spiritual Activities.
These can be things that you always wanted to do and haven't
done yet. They can be atcivities that you like and don't do as
often as you would like to. Or maybe they are activities that
you haven't done in many, many years.
After cretaing your menu, keep it in a place where you will look
at it often.
When you find yourself with a little space of time,
look at your menu.
What activity would fit into that time frame?
You have choices
right there in front of you.
Without that preplanning, you may
just slip into the fast way to relax....Just watching some
television that you don't even like.
How much more satisfying
it would be to engage in an activity that brings you joy or
satisfaction?
As you look at your schedule for the upocming week or month,
where would you like to take the time for one of your larger
activities?
Schedule it in so that the time doesn't get away from you!
There will always be more on our To-Do List.
It's time to put
some joyful activities on there!
You'll find you're much more able to give of yourself freely
when you have taken the time to do thigns that bring you
pleasure!
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