This is the final week of our March anniversary celebration! Thank you for joining “Team Transformation” for our first year. We are excited that God is blessing you and healing you each day according to His perfect will for your life!
“…and I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6).”
It’s Time to Put Yourself First! (Published Aug 26, 2016)
Are you selfless? You probably spend a lot of energy making your bosses happy. You spend most of your time making your families comfortable. Without a doubt, you are a loving and caring person.
But there is a problem that happens too often with loving, caring people like us. We become so selfless that no “self” is left for us.
There is a better way to love and care for others. Start by putting you first.
Should you always put yourself first? Not literally. However, your spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being must become a priority. By practicing excellent self-care, you will think clearer and have more energy to care for others.
Devote some time each day to care for your spirit, mind, and body. There is no one way to do this. You have to discover what best works for you.
Here are the 3 priorities for putting you first.
- The Spiritual You– Start each day with prayer and meditation. Talk to God about your problems and concerns for the day. Trust God for guidance with your tasks and decisions.
- The Emotional You– Whatever is going on in your mind drives your emotions. Let go of past hurts and disappointments by practicing forgiveness. If necessary, find a professional to help you let go of emotional pain. Find a way to relax each day.
- The Physical You– Practice good health habits each day. Eat healthier. Get a regular exercise routine. Get enough sleep. Start by making small changes and set goals for yourself.
Finally, …
You deserve to be your best self. The people you love and serve will greatly benefit from a healthy and stress-free you!
Question: What changes have you made recently to take better care of you? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
Thank you for your comments to this blog. We appreciate your interaction and interests in our topics. Here is our comments policy.
A. By posting on our blog at selmadean.com:
You grant us a license to post your comments. We may use, publish, reproduce, and distribute your comments in any format. This license cannot be revoked, is free of royalty, is non-exclusive, and applies worldwide. We reserve the right to delete your comments. We will delete your comments if you post something that we consider to be: unlawful (including intellectual property law), abusive, harassing, threatening, profane, pornographic, offensive, false, misleading, unrelated to topic and others as deemed necessary.
We will also delete all “spam.”
B. In addition to the above, you may:
1. Post follow-up questions. We welcome the chance to interact with you. Posting here will also give other readers a chance to benefit from your questions and comments.
2. Disagree with us. But please do so in a respectful way.
3. Post a link to your site. You may also post a link to your most recent blog post.
4. Retain all ownership rights in regard to your post. By retaining ownership of what you post here, you relieve us from any and all liability resulting from those postings.
5. Choose to Log-in with Twitter, Facebook, Discus, OpenID.
6. Choose to not log in.