Because I know that smile you’ve been wearing hasn’t been the same in a while.
Fridays don’t have that spark anymore, Saturdays are all the same, and Sundays… well, let’s not even talk about those! Even your walk has changed? Before it was confident, now it seems like you’re dragging chains at times? Your skin and hair have lost their shine and everything is kind of monochrome?
Lately you’ve been avoiding people and sometimes your room seems like the ‘least bad’ place of all? You even try, you look up at the sky, watch the sunset, laugh at those videos on the internet, but even that’s kind of meh, right?! And everything is just “so-so”? Relationships, friendships, jobs, plans.
Did I get it right?
And you ask yourself: “How did I get here?”. And you don’t understand how you used to be so active and happy and today you might be thinking how wonderful life would be if we could wear pajamas all day? Well, if you got here and you’re reading this, it wasn’t by accident!
My friend, I’ll only tell you one thing: it’s time. Yes. It’s time to love yourself. That’s right, what you read. Yes, yes.
To love yourself, to take care of yourself and to see that the most important person in your life is simply being neglected. That person is simply YOU.
I’d venture to say that it’s past time, but it’s never too late, so: let’s go!
I’ll tell you if you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s YOU who is your life’s priority. Children, house, family, job, husband, dog, girlfriend, none of that will flow properly until YOU put yourself first (and I said FIRST place).
And it’s not selfishness! It’s about survival.
If YOU are not well, everything else will certainly not be well. Nobody will put you as a priority if you don’t treat yourself that way.
Seems obvious, right?! It is!
But it’s so obvious that sometimes we forget and everything else ends up becoming more important, then when we see, we’re again forgotten about ourselves trying to look for external explanations for why our life is so gray. Remember: the outside is a reflection of the inside.
Events, relationships, external situations are projections of ourselves. To show us the good, the bad, what needs to be adjusted. And there’s no point in looking outside when the change should be in us first. So, I suggest: take a pen and paper and write down all your qualities. Everything.
Are you fun? Caring? Do you drive well? Do you make a divine lasagna? Write it all down! Fill in all the space. You can certainly do it. Trust me.
But you have to fill the whole sheet! And then read it all aloud.
Now tell me: do you, being all that good, REALLY deserve this “so-so” life? Do you deserve these broken, toxic relationships? This job that doesn’t allow you to show your talents? This financial life that never gets better? You already know the answer, right?! You are a divine being, full of talents and qualities!
Now the second step: what do you want for your life? What do you believe you deserve? Write it down.
Third and crucial step: get moving! (Yes… miracles don’t happen without your part. Be your own miracle.)
I know it might take a little work, but trust me: it will be worth it.
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