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Taking Care of Number One

Spend some time by yourself and appreciate the beauty that you are

Taking care of number one doesn’t mean that you don’t care about others. It means that you give yourself the best care so you are then able to be there for everyone else.

Doesn’t it make sense that this is the most important thing to focus on, that if you aren’t healthy and happy there is no way you can help others?

For some reason, somewhere along the line, self-care got a bad rap.

If you were drowning, and somebody right next to you was drowning, can you help that person before you help yourself? No – you will both drown.

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Give to Get, Give to Give

My Barbados friend. I gave him a pomegranate seed, he gave me joy.

Giving for the sake of giving feels so good, I take every opportunity I can find to do it.

I give a smile, a kind remark, maybe a compliment or my advice if asked. I give until it doesn’t hurt.

True giving is never painful. It is offered with no expectation of receiving anything in return, except for the satisfaction that comes from knowing that you made someone’s day a little easier, a little brighter.

You never know what that person might go on and do. Maybe she will have the chance to give to someone else, and so on, and so on.

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