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This Is Important

"Self-Care"

By Ruth Elizabeth StiffPublished about a year ago 1 min read
Life is full of blessings, if only we would 'look for them'

“Shakespeare once said:

I cried when I had no shoes,

but I stopped crying

when I saw a man without legs.

Life is full of blessings,

sometimes we don’t value it”

This is why

we need to spend

a few minutes every day

thinking about what and who

we should be Grateful to have in our Lives today.

Writing this down in a Gratitude journal

means that we can re-read about these ‘gifts’

when we need to.

All of this requires

Time and Concentration.

The question we have to ask ourselves is:

how Grateful am I

to ‘make time’ for ‘myself’?

This is

Important Self-Care

and something that we should do

every day.

When we are feeling sorry for ourselves,

we should ‘turn our thoughts around’

and pick up that Gratitude journal

and remind ourselves

what and who we have in our Lives

to be grateful for.

Some call these ‘gifts’

“Blessings”.

The Beauty of humanity

is that we all look at things

in a different way.

What one person would call a Blessing,

another might take for granted

it just depends on what we have gone through in Life.

What we need to do,

to keep that Positive Attitude

which is so Important,

is to Appreciate and See the Good

in everything

that comes through into our Lives.

This takes Determined thinking,

which comes through Practice.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

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About the Creator

Ruth Elizabeth Stiff

I love all things Earthy and Self-Help

History is one of my favourite subjects and I love to write short fiction

Research is so interesting for me too

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  • Rachel Steinmetzabout a year ago

    You bring tears to my eyes! This is so beautiful and full of light!

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