How To Make Yourself A Priority?
We get caught up in a narrative that suggests we’re not enough as we are; that we must be better versions of ourselves this year and as a result, we tend to get blindsided by farfetched goals and achievements which can actually end up making us feel pretty deflated if we can’t achieve them.
Want to be your own best friend? Maybe you are in the correct place!
1. Make Time For You
It’s not indulgent, it’s A-OKAY to make time for you. However, you like to unwind, setting aside some downtime to rest is essential for your wellbeing. Whether it’s reading, journaling, watching a film or running a bath, take your foot off the pedal and find something that calms your mind and meets your needs.
2. Speak Kindly To Yourself
How many times have you caught yourself saying something negative about yourself? Put a stop to the self-criticism and respond to your doubts and insecurities with empathy. If you wouldn’t say it to a friend, don’t say it to yourself.
3. Get Rid Of The Guilt
We spend so much of our time prioritizing the needs of others that we often feel guilty or selfish if we decide to do something for ourselves instead. Shift your mindset and remember, you don’t need to justify looking after yourself. Ever.
4. Stop Saying “Yes” To Everyone
It’s easy to lose yourself in the “go, go, go” mentality but when you stop trying to please everyone and do what you want to do instead, you’ll claim back so much happiness. Life is hectic and you can’t always neglect your own needs to fulfill everyone else’s. It’s okay to experience the joy of missing out sometimes. And most importantly, sometimes you have to let it go and learn to say a "no".
5. Love The Skin You’re In
We’re all guilty of focusing on what we look like when we should be appreciating our bodies for the incredible vehicle that they are. We are so actually so interested to compare what we have and are to what someone else is like that we forget the real worth of ourselves, and our bodies and how they are and how they differ from the rest!
They allow us to breathe, to walk, and to love – they don’t deserve that kind of criticism. Revel in your body’s strengths; celebrate the miles you can run or the child you produced. There’s so much more in life than worrying about imperfections. And trust me, sometimes it's actually a matter to be glad of knowing that you are different from the crowd.
6. Don’t Be Afraid To Ask For Help
You’re only human, you have boundaries and limits like everyone else and you don’t always have the capacity to accomplish everything on your own. Lean on your friends, ask for what you want and need there is joy in opening up and connecting with others. Don't think its weak to ask for help, it's not weak at all, it's strong to recognize you need help.
7. Let Go Of The Things You Can't Control
Learn to let go! You can’t control the past, the future or how other people perceive you and the sooner you make peace with that, the happier you’ll be.
Why do we over-analyze everything? Do we have to do everything perfectly all the time? Cut yourself some slack and stop beating yourself up at every misstep.
Sometimes letting go is the strongest step one can ever take!
8. Tell Yourself You Can
It's so frank and regular of a person to think that he really can't but very rare for one to think that he can, he is capable of doing anything and everything! Being fearless about failures is the very first step one can start from.
Banish the word can’t, it doesn’t exist in your vocabulary. Try new things, turn doubt into belief, you’re so much more capable than you even can ever know.
9. Embrace Your Emotions
Take the peaks with the pits and be compassionate towards yourself during the tough times. Forcing yourself to get over something isn’t letting yourself deal with it any quicker, lean into your emotions, and allow yourself to feel vulnerable when you need to. Your future self will thank you for it later.
10.Surround Yourself With Positive People
Nowadays, the number of negative people around are certainly more than the ones with a positive mind! And having those people around can make you think about negative stuff more too, and therefore try to avoid them as much as you can.
The people that feel like sunshine, those are the keepers. Your friendships should lift you up, encourage, and inspire you to grow as a person. It may sound heartless but if you’re not serving one another anymore then there’s no point in trying to hold onto a friendship when you could be investing in someone who has a positive impact on your life. Friendship isn’t an unbreakable commitment, if you’re sacrificing your own happiness it’s more than okay to move on.
11. Start A Gratitude Journal
It might seem like it’s one more thing to add to your to-do list each day but starting a gratitude journal is a great way to reflect on the here and now. It’s a good habit to get into if you want to change your mindset, forget the complaining, and focus on the joy of every day. The days and weeks whizz by in a flash but pausing to write about what you’re grateful for can make even the most insignificant days all the more meaningful when you look back.
12. Know That You Are Far More Than Being Enough
Appreciate how far you’ve come; your personal growth and success is not something to be shrugged off. Acknowledge your wins and be bloody proud of yourself. There’s no need to change who you are to fit in with someone else’s idea of perfection, you don’t need to prove anything to anyone. You are enough because you are compassionate, you are enough because you love hard, you are enough because you make others happy. Every part of the you that already exists now is what makes you enough or maybe far more than it.
Sometimes, we being normal humans actually make other people as our priority more, than our own selves while we forget that we should be thinking and caring about us in the first place! All that I can say to conclude myself is that "Stop giving up on your own sunshine for someone else's sky!"
So here is what I bring out to ya'll that I really hope can be effective to one in any possible way!
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