Don’t Forget to Take Care of Yourself!

Don’t Forget to Take Care of Yourself!

Today I found myself guilty of violating one of my most important rules – to take care of myself.  It happened so gradually that I barely noticed it.  I’d started having a feeling in the back of my mind lately that something wasn’t quite right – my productivity was off, I was getting stressed out far too easily, things were NOT humming along, almost effortlessly, like they usually do.   What I did today was this – I simply went and got a manicure and pedicure.  It’s something that I do every two weeks.  It’s not a luxury or a treat, it’s something that I consider a necessity because it’s something that recharges me.  It relaxes me, I don’t think about any responsibilities while I’m there, I just relax and recharge – I take care of me. At least I thought I did this every two weeks.  As I sat there today with my feet in the warm water, feeling the tension leave my body, almost dozing off – all of a sudden I sat bolt upright in the massage chair because I realized… I couldn’t even REMEMBER the last time I’d been there! How is that possible?  This is something that I was absolutely militant about.  This was time that I made damn sure that I took as part of my way of taking care of ME, the most important resource that I have! That says that I HAVEN’T been taking care of me.  It absolutely SCREAMS it.  And if I don’t take care of me, how can I take care of anyone, or anything, else?  My home, my...