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Do you ever find yourself smiling as you are working on your hobby?
Or notice that immediate feeling of joy when you open up your hobby resources to start prepping for hobby time?
I find this. Sometimes, I spend so much time planning, prepping and working that when I actually just sit down to do my hobbies, joy fills my being. I feel good. I actually feel like I am meditating. Because I feel at peace. I don't have to think about what I have to do that day or what stresses are playing out. I just have to live in the moment and focus on my hobbies.
Self-care is so important. I actually wrote a blog post on burnout. and a blog post on working too hard and how to bring back the fun with hobbies. So I really believe that if you want to focus on self-care, you make time each week, even if it is just 30 minutes to work on your hobbies. I feel this is so important for you.
What is self-care?
Self-care is when you put yourself in front of others and all other tasks. I am a huge task person. I actually have lists of tasks I want to complete throughout the day. I feel really good when I achieve my tasks. I always include self-care as a task, because then I will actually make time for it.
You need to find what gives you self-care.
For example, if you like to turn on some relaxing music and just let your thoughts wander for 15 minutes and relax your body. This is self-care.
If you like to receive pampering, whether it is a massage, or facial or getting your feet pampered. This is self-care. By the way you don't have to spend a fortune getting pampered, you can do this yourself or buy a massage cover for your chair, which is a fraction of the cost of getting a weekly massage from a masseuse. There are always budget-friendly ways to save on self-care.
Getting outdoors and going for a walk, is always a great way for self-care. It's giving your body a much needed break and your body fresh air to breathe. You don't have to walk to listen to the nature around you, although that can help! You can listen to pod-casts to help improve yourself and grow or listen to music to help you relax or pump through your veins to get you moving. This is all self-care.
Looking after your body psychically is self-care.
Eating a healthy meal is also self-care for your body and mind. If you want your body and mind to fully function at a high pace, feeding yourself healthy food is amazing for you.
So self-care is about doing things that make you feel good, for your body and mind.
If you are looking at tracking your self-care, I have created some fun self-care printable digital templates, you can purchase from my Etsy Store. There is the 365 Colour-In Hearts Self-Care Printable Tracker. So every day you spend time on self-care for yourself, you colour-in a circle within the hearts. Plus, I have created the self-care weekly planner. Where you list what self-care activity you did each day and how it made you feel. A great way to look over your week and feel gratitude for what self-care you have given to yourself. Or take 2 days off and go on a 2-day Self-Care Retreat at Home.
So what self-care activities are you going to do today?
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