How do you show you care about yourself?
Do you eat and sleep well?
Do you take time to give yourself what you really need?
Do you love yourself well?
If you scare yourself with made up dangers, you are not caring.
If you neglect your home, your kitchen and bedroom, you are not caring.
If you ignore your debts and spend money you don’t have, you are not caring.
If you are critical and demeaning with your inner dialogue, you are not caring.
These bad habits can be undone.
They were learned in childhood from others who were ignorant and unloving.
Unconsciously we simply take on the inner and outer languaging of our unconscious care-givers.
Consciously we can easily and consistently erase it and replace it with loving kind words and thoughts.
If you do not treat yourself with the respect you would offer as an honored guest, you are neglecting yourself.
If you do not offer yourself the gentleness you would nurture an innocent child, you are not caring.
If you forget to care for your basic needs as would a loving and protective parent, you are not loving you.
If you mistreat or abuse yourself with thoughts, words or behaviors, you are forgetting who you are.
It is true that those who fully and freely, love, trust and respect themselves, can selflessly love others.
Those who give themselves what is truly best for them, will easily encourage the best for others.
Those who see the future in a positive, productive and prosperous way, will be most supportive for others.
Those who care for themselves impeccably, give consistently to others.
We are all volunteers.
Everyday we volunteer.
We can resist and complain.
Or we can gratefully choose to give our best.
When you give your best to each and everyone, including yourself, you will be fulfilled.
When you speak the best to each and everyone, including yourself, you will be prospered.
When you imagine the best for each and everyone, including yourself, you will be at peace.
When you live your best each and every moment, you will be happy.
Why not begin today to live the optimum way!
Loving you and all as One,
Betty Lue
Twelve Daily Steps To Optimistic Living
1. Focus on my successes rather than on my failures.
2. Notice that which I have accomplished rather than that which I’ve left undone.
3. See and acknowledge my beauty rather than focusing on my imperfections.
4. Notice and acknowledge all the times I’ve followed the optimum conditions,rather than judging myself for the times I have not.
5. Acknowledge all my wins each and every day.
6. Create and maintain an environment that nurtures me.
7. See problems as opportunities to learn from rather than as obstacles to avoid.
8. Tell the whole truth on a moment to moment basis in order to maintain impeccable and loving relationships.
9. Be conscious every moment to put positive thoughts into my mind rather than negative, knowing all thoughts are creative.
10. Appreciate my feelings as a means of understanding myself, thus directing and creating my reality.
11. Continue to forgive myself and others as a means of creating a state of Grace.
12. Fill my life with joy and ecstasy by practicing daily the art and skill of verbally expressing my gratitude for all that I have.