Issue 15 👉Make Self-Care a High Priority

Welcome

Make Self-Care a High Priority

Self-care is a practice of being kind to yourself. It shows how much you love and value yourself, with the intention to improve your mental, emotional and physical well-being.

Your level of self-care says a lot about how you are on the things that are a priority.

This issue focuses on how self-care affects various aspects of our lives, from productivity, self-confidence, self-leadership, and performance.

Included in this issue:

Self-Care: What it Really is (Video)
How to Weave Self-Care into Your Workday (Article)
Self-Leadership is the New Self-Care: Why This Ritual is Your Secret to Success (Article)
How Self-Care Can Build Your Confidence (Article)
Why Self-Care is Important for Your Overall Health (Article)
How Self-Care Can Improve Your Performance (Article)
A Self-Care Action Plan (Video)

Continue reading to find out.

Enjoy this week's issue. 🙏

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Video Lesson

Self-Care: What it Really is

Self-care is needed for your well-being and should leave you with more energy and feeling revitalized. Often, the activities described as self-care leave you more depleted and with less energy.

In this video, Susannah Winters, a former member of the USA National Kayak Team and 2x Olympic trials competitor, breaks the myth of what self-care is and discusses the four components of self-care that will support your overall wellness:

nourishing foods,
stillness & movement,
time in nature, and
self expression.

👉When you appreciate the importance of self-care, you are more likely to make it a daily practice.

Productivity Improvement

How to Weave Self-Care into Your Workday

Self-care shouldn't be something you do outside of work. Making it part of your workday is highly advantageous.

In this post, learn six ways you can make self-care a part of your workday, without needing additional time to apply it.

👉During stressful days at work, focusing on your self-care will help you find solutions easier and perform at your best.

Credit: Harvard Business Review

Leadership Lesson

Self-Leadership is the New Self-Care: Why This Ritual is Your Secret to Success

To improve as a leader, you have to take care of yourself first. That is where self-leadership and self-care work together.

In this post, learn five tips on how to invest in your self-care to become a better leader.

👉You can only lead others well if you lead yourself well first. Better self-care will help raise your leadership abilities.

Credit: Forbes

Confidence Boost

How Self-Care Can Build Your Confidence

It's no surprise when you're at your best, you feel better about yourself, which will also boost your self-confidence.

In this article, learn how making yourself a priority will build your confidence to do the things you want to.

👉When you feel good mentally, emotionally and physically, it will show in your work and what you produce, which also means you will better attitude.

Credit: Emily Roberts @The Guidance Girl

Self-Care Tips

Why Self-Care is Important for Your Overall Health

Why should you focus on self-care? What are its benefits?

In this post, learn the importance of self-care and what difference it will make to your life if you practice it consistently.

👉As you make self-care a daily practice, it will enhance your overall wellness and outlook on life.

Credit: Lifehacker.com

Performance Improvement

How Self-Care Can Improve Your Performance

Focusing on your self-care will help you perform better and make difficult times more manageable.

In this post, learn how self-care affects your performance and what you can do to improve how you function daily and deal with whatever challenges you face.

Credit: Leadership Resources

Life Lessons

A Self-Care Action Plan

Focusing on self-care can seem overwhelming if you have many things going on in your life.

In this video, learn simple steps you can take to make self-care a daily focus.

👉Self-care should not feel like a chore. It's should be something you want to do, without needing to invest a lot of time. Create a plan that works for you, which you're committed to doing.

Inspiring Quote

Alone Time is a Big Part of Self-Care

How often do you spend time alone?

Credit: Oprah @OprahMagazine

Latest Blog Content

How to Bounce Back After You Have Experienced Defeat

Whenever you attempt something you have not done before, or strive for a big goal, you will experience setbacks and disappointments that can cause you to feel defeated. How you bounce back will affect everything in your life.

In this post, learn five ideas can help you, so you turn things around a lot quicker and get the outcomes you want.

👉Defeat or setbacks are a part of life, however they should not stop you from going for what you want. Use these reminders whenever you feel discouraged or have had a bad experience.

Final Words

Others Will Benefit Too if You Focus More on Your Self-Care

Self-care isn't something you should only do once in a while. You will only see its benefits if you make it a habit.

The best way to make it a habit is to implement simple daily self-care practices, which have been shared in this issue.

When you make yourself a high priority, not only will you benefit, others will too.

MAKE IT COUNT

An action step you can take this week is review everything you do that makes you feel good about yourself. Schedule alone time daily to sit in silence and reflect on your day or on your life.

Have a wonderful week. Thank you for reading. 🙏

And always remember, live your greatness! 🙌

Best wishes,

Neel Raman

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