Get right with yourself so you can be right for everyone else.
Sometimes we get so caught up and we don’t want to disappoint others, but instead, we do so much damage to ourselves because we want to make sure everyone else around us is okay before we take care of ourselves. But that’s not life. It’s important to make yourself a priority just as much as the next person who is on that list of ‘important people in your life’. You are a priority. I am a priority. I needed to put myself first. Self-love and ensuring that my health was and is top condition became my priority because I had taken the time to do for others what I wasn’t doing for myself. Recently, I administered and self-imposed a social media hiatus and worked on myself because I realized that if I don’t care for myself, no one will know how to. It is okay to choose yourself, so that you can be better, in order to do better.
Life happened. Life happened and I had to take a break from all things social media related because I personally couldn’t keep up. I couldn’t keep up with the pretense that goes along with the ‘perfect Instagram feed’ so instead of saying anything, I chose to say nothing at all. It – life – got too overwhelming and I needed to make some changes in order to help my sanity and get a grip in order to balance all the things that were happening in my life and around me. I needed to take stock of everything that was happening around and deal with it at the moment, despite the fact that dealing with things meant also making some tough decisions. My big girl panties needed to be on at all times – even when I didn’t want to keep them on.
The hiatus helped me reconfigure and reset. It gave me a chance to center myself and my thoughts and align myself with what’s important to me and work towards what I have always envisioned for myself. The process was slow and sometimes challenging but I didn’t give up on myself and I wouldn’t stop until I got to the end. I didn’t realize that I needed the break until it took over and then I didn’t feel the rush to get back into the grid until I was ready. The hiatus also gave me a chance to work on the other areas in my life that needed a lot of attention. The attention that I had given others was now back on me and it was good. It feels good to be back in top form.
How do you get back on track after getting derailed? Is a “hiatus” normal? Have you taken one and what did you discover?
... S. xo