Take care of yourself:

Take care of yourself.

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No one else will do it for you.

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Be selfish.

Always put on your own mask on before assisting another human.

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Doesn’t matter if it’s a kid or adult.

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Take care of yourself first.

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If you don’t choose yourself, you will miss your life.

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Stop people pleasing.

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Stop worrying about what other people think of you.

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Stop trying to show face.

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Or be someone you’re not.

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Invest in yourself.

Invest time in yourself.

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Do things for you.

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Just because you like to do them.

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Many of us are brought up in people-pleasing households.

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Always worrying about what other people think of us.

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Or concerned with making sure others are taken care of.

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My mom was like that.

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Always hosting parties.

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Always buying gifts.

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Always working harder than her colleagues.

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Always thinking about others.

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She can’t help herself.

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I’ve learned the same thing.

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Always make sure other people are doing good before you are.

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Nah.

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That’s not how the world works.

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You need to take care of yourself first.

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Put your health first.

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Put your mind first.

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Put your body first.

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Put you first.

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As kids, other people are always thinking about us.

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That’s what our parents are there for.

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But when you’re an adult.

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You’re on your own.

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Your friends don’t care.

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Your colleagues don’t care.

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Your parents don’t care.

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No one does.

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They will say they do.

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And some of them will.

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But they’re not thinking about you at all.

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They’re too busy thinking of themselves.

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Like all of us are.

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Problem is we put other people before ourselves.

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Care about other people’s needs and opinions more than our own.

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We can let it destroy us.

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Here’s a saying you should burn into your brain.

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It changed my life when I thought of it.

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No one else’s opinion of you should ever be higher than your own opinion of you.

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If it is, it means they control you.

Their opinion controls your life more than your own.

That’s a huge problem.

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You always put their idea of you over your own idea of you.

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You’re always beholden to them.

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You let them control your happiness.

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That is a path to misery.

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At the end of the day, it’s you against you.

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That’s it.

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That’s the whole battle in life.

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Life is a single-player game.

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You’re born.

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Have a bunch of sensory experiences.

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And you die.

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How you interpret the time in between is up to you.

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And you have a choice.

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The most important one is this.

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Take care of yourself.

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