Most of us need reminders of how valuable it is to make time for self-care.
If you’re here, maybe you need those reminders daily – because someone or something else always needs your attention.
Early on, the world trains us to put the urgent before the important.
And self-care is just not critical enough—until it is.
If that sounds familiar, we’ve collected 31 self-care mantras to help you get back on track.
A big part of living more mindfully is practicing awareness of your moods.
It might seem like extra work, but a printable mood tracker can make a huge difference.
Being mindful of your moods and how they affect you is essential to living the life you want.
And it’s about so much more than checking items off a daily to-do list.
That said, finding the best mood tracker printable for you can be a challenge.
“Just be yourself.” Have you heard that before?
It sounds so simple, yet it often seems unattainable. You’d love to just be yourself if you knew exactly who that is.
We get so caught up trying to be somebody else, somebody better, that we lose ourselves in the process. Or never find ourselves at all.
Sometimes, what we think is our real self is just a facade we use to show off to the world or to cover our flaws.
So, how do we become our true and authentic selves?
How do we regain our sense of being in a world so engrossed by false idols and insincere personalities?
Let’s talk about simple yet effective things you can do to become yourself again.
It happened again. And one of the loudest thoughts in your head right now is saying, “People don’t like me.” You wonder if they ever did.
Maybe you’re not always easy to be around. But you do have redeeming qualities. So, you don’t know why people don’t like you.
And you’re not sure what you can do about it.
Read on to learn the reasons why people scuttle or make unhappy noises when they see you coming.
Then choose a solution to focus on today.
It happened again.
You were about to do something scary but good.
And then, you didn’t.
And you’re thinking, “This is what I do. Just when I’m on the brink of accomplishing something amazing, I psych myself out.”
That’s why you’re here — to learn how to not psych yourself out.
Because you know your life could be better than it is.
And you’re not afraid to learn how to make that happen.
Do you wake up in a lousy mood nearly every day and ask yourself, “Why am I so unhappy?”
Before you even get out of bed, you feel stressed and negative. The world simply does not look like a happy place in your mind.
Like most of us, you may have some legitimately difficult things going on in your life.
Maybe you’re worried about money, and that is undoubtedly stressful. Or you might have problems in one of your relationships or an issue at work.
Even though your life isn’t terrible and your problems aren’t devastating, it feels like a dark cloud follows you around everywhere, and you just can’t shake it.
Many people wake up with this feeling the moment they open their eyes. Every morning begins with anxiety, dissatisfaction, and negativity.
They can’t understand why things are so bad, why nothing is fun and enjoyable, and why they are so dissatisfied with life.
Of course, some people feel unhappy and negative because they are clinically depressed. They are suffering from an illness that impacts chemicals in their brains that affect mood.
Depression is a serious condition that requires medical treatment, so be sure you know the symptoms of depression.
But for this discussion, we’re referring to general unhappiness — not clinical depression. (Although chronic unhappiness can lead to depression.)
You’ve probably heard some things about soul searching and getting in touch with your higher self.
But what does that even mean?
If you have a higher self, that must mean you have a lower self, too.
And it makes sense to get both parts of you working together as a team.
In order to do that, you have to know your whole self. And that means facing personal attributes you’d rather not think about.
Finding yourself generally starts at the bottom and often in the less socially acceptable parts of your personality. No one builds a house by starting on the roof.
There’s an order to these things for a reason.
Do you ever look back on your life and think, “Gosh, I wish I’d learned that lesson a long time ago?”
You think you have a handle on how life works only to discover after a few failed relationships, difficult challenges, and misguided assumptions that you’ve been missing something valuable.
As a result, much of life is wasted on worry, regret, pain, and heartache. Of course, some of this is inevitable and necessary.
But we end up spending too much time sweating over things unnecessarily instead of focusing on what is important in life.
It seems “life lessons” are called that for a reason. The lessons learned in life are a byproduct of life itself. But you can learn some of these lessons before life forces them on you in a painful way.