Importance of Improvement

I’m just so tired of these days passing me by and I’m not making any real changes with myself. I know that I have undoubtably improved since last summer, because that’s when I felt completely lost. However, I know that there’s still things I need to improve on. I just want to be the best version of myself that I can be. I want to work hard to improve myself everyday along with all the other things that I’m working to improve. Self care is extremely, EXTREMELY.. essential in our lives, not just the common care etiquette that most people would first think of. At the end of the day, you’re the one in charge of all these different roads in your life, and in order to do that to the best of your abilities, you have to be in a healthy state of mind. These roads in your life may be your friendships, work, school, family, or really anything that you may have going on in your life. You want all of those things to be great, amazing, or even perfect, but for some reason we don’t pay enough attention to ourselves and our needs. We continue to put all of these in a higher priority than ourselves, but our personal needs are just as crucial in our daily lives. Sometimes we even begin to see that these roads will begin to close when we become too complacent. We will refuse to self-evaluate our lives, which then enables bad juju to plague the roads in our lives. It’s hard to understand that although these roads can only be maintained by us; it is our jobs to ensure we are well equipped and ready to do so. All of these roads that we set out all begin, and end with us. Friendship for example, is maintained throughout our lives. If we aren’t willing to understand that our friends will continue to grow and change throughout the lifespan of the friendship, then the friendship is doomed to fail. However, through self-evaluation you have more of an understanding, and may be able to recognize problems that may occur due to your own negligence or misunderstandings. The same facts apply to our families, relationships, and our work lives. We aren’t meant to be perfect, but it shouldn’t be okay for you to not want to be a better person than you were last week.
The simple fact is, we have to take care of ourselves in order to take care of other things in our lives. We have to start putting ourselves first and stop normalizing that as being “selfish”. Taking care of yourself isn’t selfish, rather it’s actually a necessity. I’m not saying to put yourself on a pedestal, because no one likes someone who is self centered. Seriously though, take care of yourself guys. Give yourself credit for your accomplishments, be proud of how far you’ve come, and be excited for your own development! I promise, life will still go on if you take an evening for yourself to gather your thoughts and take a bubble bath or read your favorite book or drink a glass a wine with a face mask on or hell even all of them at once. I can tell you what won’t be okay if you don’t though, you. You will not be okay if you don’t care for yourself. Self care my dudes. It’s important. Self care is cool. Self care is gangsta. (does this encourage you to do it? haha) If that doesn’t then think about this – if you don’t take care of yourself, you’re ruining more things than what you are fixing. 
I love you and I care about you all and I want you to thrive in life. I want you to make the best out of the life that you were given. Stop letting the days pass you and make some real changes. Start working at those goals and start building the life you’ve always dreamed of. You are important and your life does matter. So use it to your advantage and fight for a life that you are proud of. Keep being amazing my loves. I believe in you.

–xoxoB.