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Ensuring self-care

Ensuring self-care

- I know you want to be successful and that you work very hard, but for many professionals there's one missing piece of the puzzle, self-care. That's a way of referring to how you take care of yourself. This is not an optional topic you might indulge once in a while. It's an essential investment for sustainable health and career achievement. When you operate at less than 100%, you're slower, less effective, make more errors, and often neglect your team. So choose to be more resilient, mindful, and productive. Choose quality self-care. Here's how. First, stop saying you don't have time. That just means you don't have clear priorities, don't understand how you're hurting yourself, and don't want to give your best self to every single person around you. Make time for self-care. It starts with your health, including physical care, which means adequate sleep, a reasonable diet, and some form of consistent exercise.…

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