5 Simple Ways to Practice Self-care
Make your personal space into a representation of yourself
No, this is not a list of bubble bath routines
This is the beginning of a treatise on living your best life. Your best life is your routine life—what you do consistently, not the high points. As Bill Gates said, “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
So, let’s talk about what you might do in the next few years.
If you are an adult who has moved out of your parents’ house, you probably already know that being a grown-up is hard. If you also pay all of your own bills, without your parents’ help, and you earn an average salary—then you know that adult life is hard! So here is a reminder of what you can do to show care for yourself.
1. Learn to calm your mind.
Meditation, prayer, and communing with nature are all methods to help remove negative thoughts and to stop reliving—ruminating—reliving any negative experiences and thinking about how you might have responded differently. This rumination, this worry, does not solve any problems, and it wastes your time.
