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Daily Ramblings – Spiritual Saturday – Love Yourself

27 Saturday Jun 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spiritual Saturday

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Achievement, Goals, habits, Love Yourself, self-affirmation, self-care, Self-love, Spiritual

Don’t forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard

So many of us beat the living crap out of ourselves. I know I used to. I still do today, but less frequently. I typically get down on myself when I feel like I’m just “going through the motions” and not really putting my entire self into a project.

This happened recently.

I love an automated or ritualized day. I have the same recurring tasks each day and knock them down one by one. Blogging is one of them. I also read, code, learn, journal, interact on social media, exercise, and perform my daily spiritual tasks. It really works for me, but alas, these rituals drift from purposeful self-improvement to automaton-like actions very easily.

As I tackled this feeling, I realized that I should probably take my advice. There will be days where we just don’t feel the motivation and drive we normally do. We’re human. Can I say each workout I do in the gym is 100%? Heck no. This same phenomenon applies to everything else we do. So, I realized that I need to give myself a break.

This is self-love. This is taking care of yourself. This is giving yourself a break. Who wants to live with a micromanager and tyrant? I sure don’t. So, I closed my eyes a few days ago and pretended I was staring at my 7-year-old self. I told myself that you are OK. You will screw up. You’re still an honorable person. You will be lazy some days. On those days, continue to work, but take it a little easy. The days where you’re raring to get at it will be there too. Enjoy those days as well. The days you don’t feel it, enjoy them too and give yourself a break. Just keep doing your daily tasks and you’ll be fine.

That was all it took for me. What things do you do for yourself to recapture the passion you have for your daily tasks/goals? If you have some other ideas, post them in the comments. I’d love to hear from you.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Spread Your Wings Sunday – First Posting

11 Sunday Aug 2019

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spread Your Wings

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Do Something Different, Grateful, Happy, Love Yourself, Mirror, New Blog Topic, Smile, Weekly Challenge

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Hey all!

Today, I’ll begin posting a weekly challenge. Some of these will be simple, others not so much, but I’m hoping to help some of you begin trying new things in your life to bring a little spice and help you make a small effort to do something different, change something, add something that may be missing.

 

The resources I use will come from anywhere I can find them. I will be doing the same thing right along with you. Ready to go? Here is the first one:

Challenge #1: Smile at yourself in the mirror for 10 seconds. Reply in the comments if you got this done. You have the entire week to do this. If you like the results of doing it once, do it every day this week.

See you next Sunday!

Dave

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