In this episode, we discuss how if you’re feeling stuck in life, then start taking partaking in self-care to get your power back.
Full Transcript
Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
At the end of today’s podcast episode, I’m going to give you a prompt question to reflect on in your journal. The idea is to take one to five minutes to reflect on today’s lesson and write a minimum of one paragraph on how you can apply the lesson in your life. You can use an actual journal, a word document like on Google Drive, or your note-taking app like Evernote. The idea is that you’re actually thinking about how to process the information to help you improve your life.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about how self-care is how you take your power back. As people, we are really good at just dealing with things. For many generations in the past, we had to deal with harsh conditions like famines, raids from other tribes, and long expeditions. So we are made for dealing with a lot of harsh conditions because that is how we survived for so long.
But we don’t live in those harsh conditions anymore but we tend to accept harsher conditions than necessary and when we do this, then we give up our power to other people and we don’t want that. And the best way to get our power back is through self-care.
I’m a big believer that if we want to take care of others, we have to be good at taking care of ourselves first. I’ve been on this self-development journey for the past six years and I feel great. Since I’m stronger physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, I’ve never felt better and a big part of this comes from setting expectations and boundaries for myself and others.
I, for the most part, will prioritize my self-care over other things. I will go to the gym, read my books, write in my journal, and go for walks because I know this is how I’m going to do important work and I’m not going to resent others. If someone is in your life is causing you stress, you should address that stress or remove that stress from your life.
We want to be nice by just dealing with things because it will just eat you inside. I was talking to my sister and she was venting about a client and I just told her that it will probably make sense to give that client to another person. She was trying to be nice by squeezing her in her busy schedule but it just caused other problems.
If no expectations or boundaries are set, then the person with the stronger personality is going to set them. That might be you or it might be the other person. And if you take care of yourself, in the four cornerstones, then you’ll be more likely to stick with your expectations and boundaries instead of allowing someone else set them for yourself. And when you allow going for a long time, it just makes it harder and harder for you to regain your power. Then 20 or 30 years might pass and you realized that you’ve been living under harsh conditions and you really didn’t have to. And this is a sad future because you’re not going to get that time back.
Don’t waste too much time giving your power up to other people because it’s just going to cause you to live a life that isn’t yours. This can be scary because you’re uncertain what is going to happen but in reality, it’s not going to be that bad. Life goes on. I’m doing my own thing and I’m loving the life I learn because I doing things that are true to who I want to be as a person and I never want to give this feeling up. To keep it though, I’m constantly going to have to fight outside forces that want me to do something else. The way I’m going to be strong enough though is by practicing self-care every day.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, self-care is how you take your power back. Every day we need to work on ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. No one is really going to force you to go to the gym, get the right amount of sleep, eat right, learn new things, and all of the other stuff. We need to make it a priority. Do this for six years as I have and you’ll be stronger than ever. Then you’ll have the strength to live the life you want to live. If you don’t, then you’ll just give up your power to someone else and that is most likely going to be the worst thing you can do.
So in your journal, ask yourself, are you giving yourself an adequate amount of self-care? If not, then what can you do to get your power back? It might not happen overnight but you can get your power back. If you don’t partake in self-care then it’s kind of like an empty sack. It can’t stand up straight and you fill that sack up by working on yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Hopefully, this podcast helps you move in the right direction with your life and I hope to hear that you’re taking your power back with self-care.
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