smurphette
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Sitting in work while a meeting drags on, cry laughing that she thinks making her bed and shoe lace management are achievements.Subject : Open your laces
I was slipping my runners off (or should I be saying “trainers” now?!) the other day without opening the laces. I thought about how I would have to open the laces when I was putting them back on.
So I opened them.
Because my future-self would thank me.
That is a form of self-love.
Here are some other things that my future-self might thank me for:
- Having my gym gear ready for when I get up
- Making my bed
- Yoga
- Planning my food for the day
- Training
- Spending time with friends
- Writing that email
- Returning those packages
- Reading
- Leaving the apartment clean before bed
(Ok - this is actually just turning into my to-do list for today!)
So let’s consider things that my future self won’t thank me for:
- Going to bed late
- No clean coffee cups in the morning
- A hangover
- Scrolling instagram for hours
- Watching TV
- Sacrificing special moments to be leaner
These, of course, are all common sense. But common sense doesn’t always prevail and we often feed our current needs rather than our future needs.
I think that long term happiness comes from a mixture of both.
I don’t believe in always working towards a future goal, if it results in sacrificing current happiness.
But I also don’t believe in just making decisions based on what you want now.
This is where “being mindful” is important in all decisions you make.
In The Furnace, we encourage mindful decisions through the mindset section. This results in intrinsic motivation, and personal responsibility that can be carried throughout your life.
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Thanks for reading,
Siobhan “Self-love looks different for everyone” O’Hagan