Hello and welcome to my podcast, andrea TLC, in which TLC stands for the Life Coach, which TLC stands for the Life Coach. I am your host, andrea, and thank you for joining me here on Andrea TLC. I hope that we all been practicing our one hour self care. I know I have, and, yes, I had to double a day because I missed a day of doing my hour, but I did, I did go back and I did two hours. So I am holding myself accountable and I hope you are doing the same as well. We're going to hold each other accountable. Remember, we're doing this journey together, each other accountable. Remember, we're doing this journey together. So, with that being said, I want to continue on doing the self care, and this one is about making ourself a priority. It's very essential for us to maintain balance and well-being. So I have a few ways that I'm that I want to talk about. I have a few ways that I want to talk about how we can make ourselves a priority, okay. And so the first one I'm going to I'm going to talk about is setting boundaries. So if you've been following my podcast, you know that there's an episode where I do talk about setting boundaries. It is okay to say no? Okay, because if you don't set boundaries, other people will not and they will consistently step over a boundary. They will always step over a boundary because they can, and we don't want that. So it's okay to say no to people and activities that just drain your energy. Okay, setting a boundary. What it does, it protects your time and your mental health Okay. So that's why it's very, very important to set these boundaries. You know that it's something that's going to just drain you to death. It's okay to say no, okay. The next one, of course again as we've been doing last week, is practicing self care. Yes, we're going to dedicate each day to an activity that focuses on our mind, body and soul, whether that means meditation, exercise, doing a hobby that you like or love. Maybe you love it and it's fine. Whatever that means, even if it means just relaxing in a nice bath, you know we're going to take that time to focus on ourself. Me time Okay. We're going to use this time to recharge and focus on just things that makes that brings us joy, relaxation and peace. That's all we're. Also, there's the nourishing of our bodies, so you know we have to eat healthy. Look, I'm guilty of that too, sometimes, or whatever, I like to go eat at the fast food restaurant or whatever. I mean, that's fine to cheat, but we're not talking about that right now. We're talking about how to do it healthy in within ourself, okay. So, yes, again, I practice eating healthy, staying hydrated, and here's here's one that we don't really think about Getting enough sleep. That is very, very important. We have to get enough sleep. Okay, I know, we're out here, we're working these jobs and you know, sometimes it's just it feels like we just we can't get enough rest. But we got to do it, we got to be. We have to find a way to just get enough sleep. Okay, and here's a big one. Here's a real, real big one. You just can't do any of these things, in which I hope that you can at least do the one hour for yourself. Here's, here's here's a good one right here.

Just surrounding yourself with positive people, being in a positive environment. Try to surround yourself with people who support you and uplift you, encourage you. We just need that, okay, we just we need supportive, positive people in our life. Try to stay away from negativity and negative people, negative environment. That just ruins your self-esteem and drain your energy. We just we don't want that, we don't need it, we don't. We don't want that, we don't need it. We don't want that in our life. We just really need to get away as far away as you can from that kind of stuff. We're only trying to be around positive people, people who love us and support us. Those are the people that you want to surround yourself with. At least do that. But I also want you to practice the rest of it. You know the whole eating healthy and exercising and staying hydrated.

Yes, we have to do all those things and yes, we have to set aside boundaries, but also we need to also set aside a time for ourself, and I gave a, I gave a time of one hour. If you go over that hour, that's. That's perfect. If you can, if you can do more than an hour, perfect. If you can, if you can do more than an hour, just at least an hour, okay. And no, I'm going to say it again, I said it last week and I'm going to say it again If you own your job and you get an hour lunch, that does not count.

I mean it. Y'all that don't count. This has to be your hour. You're not at work, work. You are at your own leisure, at your, at your house. Maybe that hour is going to the store, and no, you can't go to the grocery store for an hour trying to pick out things that you need. No, you can go to the grocery store just to look around. You're not in a rush to do anything. Just you know.

Sometimes I like going to the grocery store and just you know, finding what's different, not necessarily because I have to be in and I have to be out. We're not doing that. We're going to do something for an hour that is just solely for us. A person that likes to take a walk, you know, even if you just like to sit outside, and you know, on your porch or whatever it is that you do that you find peaceful. That's what I want you to do for that one hour. I want you to do that for one hour. I want you to surround yourself with positive people. I want you to stay hydrated, eat healthy. Okay, I know that one might be a little shaky there, but we're going to try it, okay. So let's continue to make ourselves, you and me a priority. Until next time. Peace, love and light you.