01/13/2021
Show Up for Yourself!
You wake up in the morning for work. Even if you are running late and have to skip breakfast for staying in bed just a little longer, you skip it. You look at the time and try to catch up with everything you need to do to be on time. You don't want to get a point at work for being late.
You make sure the kids are ready for school and have everything needed, bookbag? Checked, lunch money? Checked, dressed properly for the weather? Checked.
You go outside to warm the car, and you realize you need to shovel the snow off the driveway before moving the car. You do what you must and arrive to work on time.
You finish your shift and head home. You stop by the supermarket and get some quick meals to prepare because you are tired from work. Help the children with homework, feed them, shower them, or instruct them what to do. You tuck the children to bed.
Who better than a mother or wife who takes care of others, to care for herself. You are the best person to take care of you. You know what you need and what you want.
That is only one scenario. The story can happen in so many different ways. You can be a married couple, a college student, a single mother, or whatever situation you are in. You know your unique story.
We do everything that has to be done, yet we won't do what we need for ourselves. We push through for other people, for work, for children but are too tired to do the same for us.
You pay your bills but won't pay yourself first. What does pay yourself first mean? Putting money aside as savings or emergency funds.
Life gets better when you decide to push through and show up for yourself. Give yourself that extra morning stretch. Wake up a little earlier to do something nice for yourself. Plan your future and work towards it after work. Make yourself as important as your job or other things, and show up for you.
Take this moment to believe you are the boss of you and follow through in the same way you show up for others. You deserve to take yourself as seriously as you do others.
Decide on the life you want and make it happen. Think to yourself, “I am my own boss. If I can show up for others, I can show up for myself.”
Now that you see how much you show up for others, how will you show up for yourself? What will you do now that you are the BOSS?
Take this moment to believe you are the boss of you and follow through in the same way you show up for others. You deserve to take yourself as seriously as you do others.
