1370: Give yourself room at the table
Today we’re kicking this week off with perhaps a confronting, but very helpful question that many of us can struggle with.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So I want to kick off this week with a slightly challenging question, which is what would happen if you put yourself first this week? Now, for so many of us, we have many complicated feelings when it comes to putting ourselves first. And for many of us, we kind of put ourselves last by autopilot. Many of us who were socialized as girls, well, we were conditioned and we were taught to put everybody before ourselves. We were taught to prioritize other people's happiness in many overt and covert ways. We were taught to take up less space. And this idea of putting ourselves first was selfish and just wrong. And along the way, I think a lot of us just took ourselves out of the equation completely.
So what would it look like to put yourself first this week? Would the world genuinely stop turning? Would it make you into a completely selfish bitch? Now, I know the answer to both of those things is a definite no. I'm not gonna lie. It might feel uncomfortable. Some people might be a bit taken aback. But even just thinking about putting yourself first and where you tend to put yourself in the pecking order of life, it might be quite illuminating. We know that we have to put our own oxygen masks on first, but many of us find that really hard to follow. Yet we're so focused on all the bad shit that could come from putting ourselves first that we forget that there is even good shit to begin with. We might actually gain some time for ourselves.
We might actually be more pleasant people to be around. We might be breaking cycles and modeling the behavior to other people who really need it. And we might just like our lives a little bit more. So I say give it a go. If it feels scary, start with something really, really small. Or if you feel like going balls for the wall, go for it. Pick the safest place to start. Experiment.
Gather some evidence that the world doesn't end, and bet on yourself for once. Remember that everything changes when you believe you matter. And I can't wait to be back with you bright and early tomorrow morning.
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