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11 Simple Ways To Remain Balanced, Healthy and Motivated
If you’re feeling a little off-kilter, these activities can help bring you back to center.
Life is stressful. Work, family, friends, and our own needs are all constantly making demands on our time, energy, and patience. It only takes a moment for us to slip away from center and be off-balance, lose motivation, and end up going down a rabbit hole of unhealthy habits.
Luckily, self-care is ready to come to the rescue! Self-care, the literal act of taking care of yourself, is key to getting back into balance, finding the motivation you need to get things done, and keep your health in check as you do it.
Here are 11 self-care ideas to achieve balance, health, and motivation in your day-to-day life.
Isolate yourself
This single act may be the most important one you can ever do. There are so many voices coming at us from all directions, demanding and pleading for our attention. It’s easy for our own voice to get drowned out.
Isolate yourself so you can hear your own voice and listen to your own needs. Isolate yourself for at least 15 minutes every day. You can spend this time in meditation, or simply sitting on your bed in silence to see what comes up.