Kingdom Fitness 2024 Edition/Life at 40 and Beyond... Prioritizing Yourself
In your 40's, make you a priority. Prioritizing your health and well-being is not selfish. Prioritizing your health and well-being is wisdom 1-on-1.
As you get older, your body requires more time to recover from the stress, strain, fatigue and exertion of the day and the week. If you do not rest, your body will shut down and make you rest. Rest before that happens. When your body is overexerted you feel tired, you sleep longer and your energy is limited.
You are no good to yourself or others exhausted or stressed out. Exercise and recreation are important, but so is rest and relaxation. Resting is a biblical commandment. It is essential to maintaining maximum stamina and focus.
Overexertion releases stress on the body and soul. When you are overexerted your body reacts producing intense levels of stress, fatigue, anxiety or frustration. Step back and take a few minutes to breathe, reflect and regroup.
The older you get the wiser you should become. Moreover, the older you get the more thorough your thoughts, analysis and decisions should be. Maturity says, "Now that I am older, more experienced and more capable, how should I approach life and circumstances?"
How do you need to prioritize time to just breathe and be a human being? What do you need to say yes to and what do you need to say no to? If you do say yes, will you be more productive, happy and rested or will you be busy, frustrated and exhausted?
Stop doing what doesn't work.🛑 Stop saying yes to things that get you frustrated.🛑 Stop saying yes to things that leave you thinking and saying, "I could have been more productive doing something else."🙃
There are things we bring on ourselves sometimes. There are some things we can control. Take inventory of your decisions. What are you obligating your time to that is stressing you out instead of making you feel at ease.
Okay. Maybe you do need to keep your word, but manage your time and who you allow in your face and space. Difficult people and circumstances cannot always be avoided, but how you interact with them and how much time you spend interacting with them can be managed.
You are a priority. Your health, happiness and peace is a priority. Assess. If certain people and circumstances take you out of your character, they are unhealthy to you and a threat to your well-being.
Be attentive. Be proactive. Stay alert of what drives you over the edge of not feeling rested, tempered or yourself.
Life in your 40's requires pace and pulse. Steady the flow of your decisions and the outcome. Be all in with raising the standard of making yourself a priority.
If people expect the best of you, they have to learn to accept your limitations and boundaries. They have to learn to accept what is important to you in this stage of your life. People have to accept that you are human just like them. Even Superman had a Clark Kent.
No one is made to do it all in one day or at one time. Good results and a well lived life are the result of prioritizing time to rest and to be. So when life calls for you to be present in the moment, you are fully present and happy.
Rashea@LLO2
