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“What do I need to do today to love myself?”
I read this a while back and it struck me. So often we allow ourselves to get overwhelmed with all that we think we have to do. The dishes are piled up, the carpet hasn’t been vacuumed in a month, perhaps you have kids that need your attention, a spouse, a job, school, whatever it is. I know that’s pretty much life (sans kids). I make myself a running “to do” list using Google Tasks and I’m still learning how to not allow it to overwhelm me. I’m constantly tweaking how I look at the list and yet still there are days that I just get overwhelmed by it all. I don’t even put things on there like “do the dishes” or “fold clothes” although maybe I probably should. On the other hand, if I end up doing those things in a day and doing so distracts me from things that ARE on the list, I write in the chores I did so that I can remind myself I DID accomplish something.
A to do list is great and it’s a really helpful way to not only remember to do the things we should, but to pat ourselves on the back for doing something, yet we can’t let it take over our lives. Especially on our bad days when we end up accomplishing nothing. On those days it’s too easy to look at the list of things we didn’t get done, a day when nothing is marked off and want to punish ourselves (even if it’s only mentally), only making ourselves feel worse in the process. What I propose that we need to do is instead of asking “what do I need to do to love myself today?”, that we simply making loving our self an action item. Let’s start our ToDo list off with one item that we can do every day- Love Yourself! Perhaps by putting it on the ToDo list we will actually make it a priority.
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