International Whale Day. Groundhog Day. Administrative Assistant’s Day. Mother’s Day. Penguin Awareness Day. World Cancer Day. Love Your Pet Day. Valentine’s Day. Flag Day. Veteran’s Day. Turtle Day. Patriot Day.
Okay, suffice it to say, there is a “day” for just about anything, any cause, any reason, any season. Now I am not saying that the whales, cancer, pets, flags, mothers and fathers, stepmothers and stepfathers, inlaws and outlaws, potbelly pigs, endangered silver-footed lizards, veterans and all the other groups out there should not be recognized or celebrated.
What I am saying is ‘where does it end’ and WHEN is your Day?
Maybe you have more days to yourself now that you are a Queenager. Lucky you. Maybe you don’t with your volunteering, learning new things, caring for an aging parent or a grandchild.
What I am saying is make it a Me Day! Take time for yourself.
Now you are thinking, “Who is she kidding? I am looking down a very long tunnel of ‘to dos;’ in fact, there may not even be a light at the end of that tunnel. She’s nuts!”
Won’t be the first time someone has thought that of me and if you stick around, you will probably come to agree at times that is true.
Studies have shown that a mere ten minutes a day of meditating or walking in your ‘hood is beneficial. Petting your furry friends can lower your blood pressure. Just breathing in a slow and steady rhythm can help one focus. While jetting out to Sedona for a week at the spa du jour would be heavenly – face it – very few of us get this opportunity.
What’s the point? Learn to make those ‘me moments’ and soon you will have a ‘Me Day!’ However you choose to take care of yourself, it all goes back to this….if you don’t do it, who will and how will you manage if you cannot do it?
Not an easy answer. Certainly not done overnight. Impossible? No.
Start small and keep at it. Own the ‘you’ you are now since it’s the only one you have.
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I enjoyed the article, thanks. Good advice and a good morning reminder. Kind of like putting the oxygen mask on yourself first before saving others. Those airlines figured it out…we should too.