🔥Take Back Your Time for What Matters Most
"Let no one rob me of a single day who isn't going to make a full return on the loss." - Seneca
The next time someone robs you — or lays claim to — the most valuable, non-renewable resource that exists (the ticking time on your lifeline), ask yourself,
“Is this a fair trade?”
Devoting ourselves to everyone else’s demands, interests or social media scrolls while flaking on our own desires is self-disrespect and self-sabotage.
Defend your time ruthlessly.
If something isn’t a “hell yes!” in every sense, it is automatically an “F no!”
Trust how you really feel about giving away your time like Halloween candy…
…especially when you’re set on achieving something with the potential to positively impact your life (and the ones you love) in huge ways.
The only person allowed to make demands on your time is You.
If others feel they can help themselves to your life and THEN take umbrage when you reclaim or protect what’s rightfully yours, then, off they go.
Decide what your priorities are or the world will decide them for you… and it will suck.
Some people will guilt you, mock you, nag you, make passive aggressive comments, and all the other disparaging, unpleasant things insecure, entitled, aimless humans do.
The good news is if you don’t downgrade yourself by giving in to low energy people or activities, you WILL rise above to another level of awesomeness and achievement of your true purpose(s)…
… thus allowing for better relationships with those who “get it” in your life.
People who don’t have respect for your time — the most valuable resource on Earth— in the forms of:
habitual lateness/making you wait for scheduled plans or appointments;
(in the same vein), wasting your time;
last-minute demands without inquiring about your own plans for your own time;
guilting you into changing your plans to meet their ends;
assumptions of your availability for their needs/wants, etc…
People who do this have been rewarded for their behavior in the past, in conscious and unconscious ways.
Respect, love, protect, build up, and care for yourself like someone you’re responsible for helping.
It is 100% worth standing up for your priorities first.
Even if your priority for that day is sitting on the couch and recharging yourself. It’s nobody’s effing business.
You don’t owe anyone an explanation for why you want to live your life on your terms.
Walk your highest path even if it means walking alone for a little bit.
You’re not alone, by the way. We’re here and I pull for you and send light your way every day.
Trust yourself. If you have desires to achieve everything you were put on this planet to do, then get out of your head and get into action. Do not let ANYONE drag you off course. Friends get it and support you. The rest just suck the life out of you. Literally.