Everyone has a place to live in, a body to perform activities, and a mind to think as much as they want. Yet the quality defines the standard of living for everyone.
If you organize your go-to home as per your convenience you’ll stay more comfortable.
If you have a set time for eating and sleeping, you body tends to produce more than required.
Similarly, if you operate your mind with a plan, everything around you will seem sorted and clear.
Hence, having a strategy or a roadmap of where one is going helps in staying forward oriented and certain about the direction.
A dedicated self care plan also sets you in the path of working for you. It makes you understand what you need to perform and how to practice it consistently.
So let’s understand what is the importance of self care and how to set it to practice and change your life overall.
(If you are looking to talk to someone totally unrelated to your life you can drop your doubts to your divine buddy for free. At the end, most of our problems can get solved if we have the right ears to listen to.)
Why Self Care Matters
As and how we grow up, there’s a settled routine that we start circling around.
A very common way of living for most of us now is to wake up before dawn, rush through a jam-packed day at work, juggle family responsibilities, and squeeze in errands before collapsing into bed, exhausted.
Taking out time to care for self helps one to stop and refill the gas so that the journey of life doesn’t stop simply because you have no more energy to move forward.
Hence, caring for yourself can bring you a longer jump towards growth, productivity, and confidence in life.
Read on 5 reasons why to practice self care and bring a significant change in your life.
Benefits of Creating a self care plan
When you have a clear path to drive yourself to the destination, you reach their early and effortlessly. And a little dose of relaxation timely will never tire you throughout the journey, making you feel better all the time. Here are a few key benefits of creating a self care plan:
- While you might be super strong, sometimes life has some external challenges knocking at your door. And those external challenges might just make you weak internally.
- Practicing mindfulness exercises, taking a relaxing bath, or spending time in nature everyday makes you reflect on your existence and how the outer factors are just pins that can be removed.
- Doing certain activities for yourself makes you feel content and satisfied with what you are as a person.
- It brings you self awareness and enhances consciousness towards your purpose of living.
- Ingraining better sleep habits, healthy eating strategies, and scheduling physical activity helps you in achieving more of things in life.
- When your cup is filled enough, you are able to pour it out to other people too. This makes you create a positive circle around you thus making your bonds with humans around beautiful.
- You can read more on what is personal wellbeing and why should you care?
A 5 step guide to creating a self care plan
Everyone should know how to create their own self care plan. Having a pre decided self care strategy makes you execute them accordingly.
If we think, we will keep thinking to start it and the external challenges of life will hide it someday.
And you are stuck.
It eventually becomes difficult to start it again, and once you come forward for it, you will have to again chart a plan.
Then why not do it today?
Here’s a 5 detailed steps for you to draw your chart all by yourself.
If you still think you want a drafted plan, connect with your divine buddy and let’s unlock your best self.
Understand your needs
I am physically fit but not strong, hence my major attention goes to exercising and weight lifting.
But there was a phase where I was struggling mentally and spent more time meditating and journaling.
Hence it is important to know where you stand and what you as a person need the most.
Read the detailed guide on how to organize your life with 5 dimensions of wellness. It will help you figure out the aspects you need to work on the most.
This will help you groom yourself all round and not miss out on some important growth parameters.
So, if you realize that detoxifying digitally is the main concern now then your plan will involve following all the 10 good digital habits majorly.
Accordingly if you are struggling mentally, then make sure to have your plan more achieving mindfulness.
Create a routine to bring it all together
Executing a self care plan consistently will make you feel better both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Though, things should be done to enjoy the process and not seek the purpose, creating a self care routine shapes your physical self, clears your mental clutter, balances your emotional resilience, increases productivity, and also enhances your sleep quality amongst other benefits.
Here’s a detailed guide on how to create a self care routine. This will help you in making a personalized one for yourself.
Build your plan calendar for every pillar
Did you know there are various pillars of self care and a person who has worked on all of them is a wealthy one.
You can start with the seven most important pillars and accordingly work on other too once these are built strongly.
Make it a habit to take care of yourself daily
If you can work on blending self care in your day to day activities, congratulations!
You will never have to spend time on maintaining a self care routine seperately.
But that will require a lot of efforts for you to blend it in your daily life.
- Start with journaling all small details. Did you squeeze in a walk during your lunch break? Jot it down! Did you finally carve out time for that relaxing bath? Celebrate! It will motivate you in doing more activities.
- Take out 5 or 10 minutes from here and there to involve small self care practices in your habits. For eg, if you are focusing more on mindfulness, then meditate for 5-7 minutes after waking up, or try filtering your thoughts when you are commuting. Instead of scrolling mindlessly, dedicate 10 minutes before bed to reading a book or listening to calming music, affirmations, or learnings.
- Combine short bursts of activity throughout the day. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, do some squats while brushing your teeth, or park further away from your destination and walk.
- You can also create your day to day self care plan in a tracking method and tick the activities you perform everyday. This checklist helps you in analyzing what is working out for you.
Recognize your Warning Signs
As a wise person you would not want to continue with a pain that even following a habit cannot cure.
There are times when there is excess of fatigue and low energy even if you have been taking care of yourself. Please consult a doctor first.
There can also be anxiety, helplessness, irritability, and anger even though you are not hard on yourself. The best to do is to talk.
Don’t want to open up to any of your known ones? I am your divine buddy here. Let’s connect.