{"id":84,"date":"2014-06-04T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2014-06-04T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T15:31:10","slug":"84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"You Are Worth 6 a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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You Are Worth 6\u00a0a.m.<\/span><\/h1>\n

Invest in yourself much lately?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Working from home has been interesting… emotionally interesting. A while back I ran into a lazy rut that had me in tears! Gavin would come home and I would felt\u00a0so guilty for having wasted an entire day accomplishing almost nothing. What’s worse is that because I felt so awful about myself I would lose the energy to do anything! The cycle would repeat itself and it just got worse. Here is the thing… I remembered this exact feeling when I was working THREE JOBS! When I got to thinking about it… it was also the same feeling when I used to\u00a0eat\u00a0something that was fast but super unhealthy, missing my Jesus-time, skipping a workout, choosing TV over craft I wanted to do,\u00a0or not\u00a0getting that thing done that’s been there for a month. \u00a0So what was the deal!\u00a0<\/span>This crazy self-criticism\u00a0would grow exponentially with all of these things shouting at me. It was the lack of investing in myself!<\/span><\/p>\n

BOOM.\u00a0Mind blown. I\u00a0had nothing to give because my tank was empty.<\/p>\n

First things first, I have always been a morning person for Jesus-time, it puts my whole day on the right track, but I was not getting up early enough to get it in. For some reason at 8 a.m. my brain switches over to business mode and I am way to distracted to even attempt Jesus-time. No Idea why, that’s just me… but I felt entitled to sleep in\u00a0because\u00a0I was exhausted from being pregnant. Let me translate\u00a0that\u00a0into\u00a0reality;\u00a0I felt entitled to punish myself! I was shooting myself in the foot from the moment I wouldn’t wake up.\u00a0The\u00a0same goes for every other thing I was denying myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

So! This had to stop.<\/p>\n

My emotional and physical health was worth getting up at 6 a.m., eating better, ignoring the TV to do what I loved, and overall investing in myself. It took me about a month but one tiny triumph at a time I made myself a priority and the change that has occurred and remained since then is amazing. I feel\u00a0better, have\u00a0more energy, I have more to give to my friends and family, I sleep better\u00a0and\u00a0my confidence is through the roof! The self-criticism monster has been silenced and when it tries to sneak up on me for\u00a0a tiny failure… I can stomp it out because my tank is full.<\/p>\n

In order to get out of lazy rut that was basically self-punishment I…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • \u00a0Made a morning routine that includes Jesus-time, personal development time, and making sure I am ready for the day by 8 a.m. (sometimes this means getting up at 5)<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Got an accountability partner that I Skype with every Friday where we discuss successes, challenges, ah-ha moments, to-do’s for the next week and prayer requests.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • made my workout a “no matter what” it’s going to get done\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • choosing the delicious healthy foods that may take a little more time over the quick unhealthy ones (me\u00a0and my families bodies are worth the investment)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    As time goes on and my life-stages change there will be new hurdles that I have to get around… but you know what.
    \nI’m worth it. I have to be.\u00a0<\/span>Here is my question for you… Are you investing in yourself? The fastest way I have discovered\u00a0to find out is to sit down and write out “instead of doing X, which does Y,\u00a0I did A which is causes B” and then discover how you feel about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

    EX: Instead working out today which gives me energy, makes me feel good about myself, and boosts my confidence I chose to watch TV which caused me to feel sluggish and frustrated later\u00a0because I got nothing done.<\/span><\/p>\n

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