Beyond just receiving caring from others, when you don’t demonstrate care to others consistently, life loses its color and connection. You feel less emotionally engaged with those around you.
Real change begins with real commitment to be more conscious about our goals and choices, and consistent in our efforts to make them happen. To be worthy of more caring, we simply must accept it, see that it’s all around us, and, of course, return the blessing.
Activator #1: Care for Thyself
You should deeply care about how you feel, what you think, what you want, what you need, and what makes you feel happy. Just as important, you should have plans and routines in place that allow you to do all these things and care for yourself in general.
- Schedule a minimum of seven hours of sleep every night
- Remember: Smaller portions, more produce
- Exercise at least three times per week
- Meditate
- Drink a lot more water
- Give yourself a break, and a little credit
- Tap into the emotional side of yourself more often
Activator #2: Be More Vulnerable and Allow Others to Care for You
Share your results with others, ask for help, open yourself up to letting others help you, support you, mentor you, encourage you–care for you.
Activator #3: Be More Present, Interested, and Attentive to Others
The only way to experience the deepest levels of human experience is to be deeper in the moment in our interactions with others, fully invested in the now, with them alone.
But our presence with others should also have a goal, and that’s to demonstrate that we care and want to learn something about them. Being present allows us to be curious and pay attention to others.
Charge Points
1. Five ways I’m going to start taking better care of myself include…
2. If I were willing to be more vulnerable in life, I’d probably start asking for more help in the area of…
3. Three ways I’ll start demonstrating more care for the people in my life are to…
* Source: The Charge by Brendon Burchard