Mar 25th 1-2-3: Take Care Of Yourself
1: Three Areas Of Care ( 1 minute read )
We’ve all heard it said before, “take care of yourself”, but what can that mean to the creative?
In many cases we tend to lean towards one version of taking care of ourselves as a way of interpreting the phrase. For today’s entry, I’d like to focus on three particular areas where we can take care of ourselves. What we ingest, what we think, and what we do.
So you get some food some drink and you sit down and put it in your mouth. That’s ingesting.
Well yes, but not entirely. I don’t want to take away from the importance of a healthy nutritious diet, but what ingest in terms of media and entertainment can be just as important. Everyday we are bombarded by so many ideologies and philosophies and it can be easy to be overwhelmed. Watch what you ingest, make sure it is something that is healthy because that will affect the next point.
What we ingest strongly affects what we think.
We tend to have beliefs that we have made at some point in our lives, and once we have we carry along with those until they are challenged. Our beliefs are an acceptance of what we think is true, an agreement of sorts. It is important to make sure that what we are accepting as truth is, in fact, truth. Useful and suitable for growing and learning.
Lastly, what we do is of the utmost importance.
Time is our only non-renewable resource so it is key to know that we are either investing our time in something or we are wasting it. What we do with our time is essential to taking care of ourselves, for how we care for ourselves will be how we care for others. Whether we are eating, reading, resting, or exercising, make sure to focus your actions on positive and healthy activities.
Taking care of ourselves is a constant learning-process, but now we know what we consume, what we think, and what we do are just a few of the areas where we can be intentional about caring for ourselves.
I hope this helps!
Take care of yourself.
2: Creative Prompts From Us (ex. Write a short story, a poem, a song, or draw a quick illustration of these! Let your imagination run free.)
I. Check your phone’s screen time. How much time are you investing/wasting and on what? How can you reclaim your most precious resource?
II. Write down beliefs and agreements you have about yourself and the world around you. Are they true? How are you measuring truth?
3: Inspirational Quotes From Others
I. "You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." — Maya Angelou
II. "Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments." — Bethenny Frankel
III. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." — Theodore Roosevelt
Thank you so much for reading!