Make An Appointment With Yourself
Your schedule is full. The kids have to go to the doctors and to karate. Soccer practice and the birthday party. Your friends want to have drinks. Your water heater at home just went out. The check engine light in your car just turned on. You work full time and some weeks, over time. You have to go to the grocery store. To the pharmacy. You go help a friend or relative in need.
You give. All you have to everyone else. To the job. To your home. To your family. What about you?
Make an appointment with yourself. Just as you make an appointment to take the car in to get looked at or for the plumber to come by. Intentionally, set time for yourself. You can read. Take a nap. Do yoga. Write in a journal. Or take a shower and make a bucket of popcorn. The point is to slow down. Be still. Check in on yourself and make the time happen. Do it while you still have control. Do it while you still have power and agency over yourself. Otherwise, you’ll be forced to later. Because you’re sick. Burned out. Stressed from all of life’s stressors.
Block it off in your planner. Put it on the family calendar. Protect the time that’s yours. You know why. So that you can be, yourself. Be there for everyone else and everything else. It could be an hour per week or an hour per day. Whatever you decide, make it happen.
Thought Provoking Questions : Make the time for yourself now or be forced to later. What is your biggest challenge to make an appointment with yourself?
Daily I write and release a daily meditation. A quick read. Sharing wisdom and asking thought-provoking questions. Influenced by the obstacles, success and failures in my life and of others. Using history, books, current events, philosophy, and ancient wisdom. These writings are actionable, thought-provoking, designed to make your life better.
These writings are not to push a way of thinking on the reader or to force you into a certain philosophy or methodology. Rather to give you practical and real ways to handle life. This is an added tool. My writing is simply a discussion, a discourse, with all the material I read, watch, hear and consume.
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