Tomorrow is Taking Care of You Tuesday
I have a wonderful friend who is great at taking care of everyone else. She is the hardest worker I’ve ever met. She has a full time job, a busy family and a growing ministry. She is a very busy girl.
She and I have been working hard to not only take care of those around us, but ourselves as well. She made a huge breakthrough when she sent me an email letting me know she had scheduled her “annual” appointment with her doctor – for the first time in five years.
Our stuff is so often on the bottom of our list.
So by Tuesday, I want you to put something at the top of your list. Here are some ideas of things you could do to take care of you:
- Make your annual appointment
- Make a hair appointment
- Exercise
- Call a friend (not out of obligation, but because it does your heart good)
- Get a prescription refilled
- Take a 20 minute nap
- Put a flower on your desk
- Prepack some healthy snacks
- Download some music you love to your iPod
- Schedule a dentist appointment
- Schedule an appointment with your trainer
- Go take a walk
Tell me what you are going to do but Tuesday at midnight, and I will enter you to win The Get Yourself Organized Project.
Your real reward will be taking care of yourself. Go on. It’s only 15 minutes (or so…)
I completed not one, but TWO, gym classes today! I also finally made that long-overdue yearly girl check-up (although it’s been more like 18 months!). THANK YOU for this post!!
Awesome, 2 workouts. What an inspiration!
i made a haircut appointment! it’s not til the end of october but it’s awesome that it’s already scheduled and now i have it to look forward to! plus, i’m redeeming a groupon so i won’t have to pay when i get there AND i’ll be using it before expires! you go girl! thanks for the push!!
YAY! Free is always good 🙂
OK! So, between moving and bringing home a little girl for adoption all at the same time, yes in one weekend, it has been difficult to find a bit of me time. One weekend was crazy but now its settling down. I have tried to just read a good book besides my bible or devotional something a little extra for me in the evenings when everyone in our household is quiet and sleeping!! I though would love to go get a pedicure maybe this Friday!!!
Congrats on your new lil girl! So sweet.
I am going to put a flower on my table to remind me that God is good, made beautiful things for me to enjoy and He loves me!
AMEN!
Hang out with friends at our very first MOPS meeting of the 2012-13 year! And I’m going to go for a walk by myself during my older daughter’s play rehearsal while my in-laws watch the younger one (nap).
Oh, I love MOPS, have fun and enjoy your walk.
I have been walking around with a kink in my neck for weeks. Each time it pinches I think I need to call for a massage. After reading this I booked a massasge tomorrow evening. A good friend is a massage therapist. We haven’t had a nice visit in a while. So I will be getting a 2/1 deal. Sweet! Thanks Kathi.
That is a sweet deal! Enjoy.
Tomorrow my Mom leaves, after a ten-day visit. I am always sad when she leaves, so I especially have to do something fun after taking her to the airport. Then I will put my girls to bed early, read a book I’ve been wanting to get back to for a long time, and go to bed EARLY! 🙂
Enjoy your book and early bedtime!
I am getting my shoes re-soled and buying more hair color. Both are WAY overdue and I know it will make me feel good to get those off of my ‘to do’ list at last!
I hear ya, it does feel good to get the To Do list checked off. Good for you!
I’m having lunch with a dear friend…we are going to sit outside (nosh on chips and salsa), enjoy the sunshine and celebrate the joy of friendship.
That sounds wonderful! Have a sweet time.
I am going to go to bed early enough tonight that I will be able to wake up before my little ones and exercise. I’ve been in a bad cycle of staying up late, not being able to drag myself out of bed in time, then not having the energy I know I have when I am exercising regularly. I’m breaking the cycle today – FOR ME! 🙂
(Thanks for giving me the inspiration to do what I know I need to do!)
You are welcome and good luck!!!
I have a dentist appointment tomorrow after the kids go to school. It’s for me, but I really don’t want to go. So, as a reward I like the idea of putting a flower on my desk 🙂
Glad that you are going anyway. 🙂
Starting tomorrow, two of my three kids while be in school two days/week! So tomorrow morning, you have inspired me to stop at the neighborhood coffee shop and get my favorite drink. I’m going to then sit in my rockin’ minivan and read one of my stockpiled magazines whilst listening to one of MY favorite CD’s (not the kids’ CD’s). Hopefully my 5 month old babe will cooperate and nap the mid-morning away!
Oh yes, coffee and a good magazine. I pray your baby sleeps and your time in your rockin minivan is glorious.
I am going to buy that gym membership I’ve been thinking about so I can get back on track!
Good for you! Enjoy your workouts.
I will exercise. I started running last year then when the winter weather got here I stopped and it is showing. It is time to do something for me.
Kudos to you for getting back in to running AND doing something for you! Stay healthy.
I’m making an appt with the chiropractor today. like Marilyn, I also committed to peak313 Living & Active challenge
Love that you girls are finding fitness accountability. Good luck!
I’m with Monica. I have a follow-up appointment on Tuesday that I will keep. And then I’ll come home and read Brene Brown’s newest book which will have arrived earlier that day!!!
Yay for keeping appointments, they can be inconvenient but are so needed.
I have health insurance for the first time in 2 years. I am going to make myself and full head to toe physical exam appointment. Time to take care of my WHOLE body!
Excellant!
I’m going to schedule my mammogram tomorrow and go to the gym in the morning.
May your workouts be successful and your mammogram be clear!
I asked a friend to be my accountability partner this week
Good for you! Accountability partners are so great to have.
I am starting the Living and Active Challenge with http://www.peak313.com 😉
That is awesome. Good luck!
I will plan out meals that my husband can cook on his days off (Mon – Wed) that are healthy. That will give me a couple of nights off from cooking and help me take off the 15 lbs I gained back (sigh).
There is nothing better than a man in the kitchen :). I wish you success in losing the extra 15.
By Tuesday I will say no to taking on one more project which will free me up to catch up on some reading without sacrificing sleep. My Kindle is burning a hole in my pocket. And while already on the list (and not on Tuesday), I have a follow-up doctor’s appointment today that I *will* keep, and I have a water walking class on Wednesday that I will attend without complaint. 🙂
Good fo you! Taking care of yourself is so good to do. Enjoy your reading and I hope you have fun at your water walking class!
I have been having a lot of health issues that have taken me away from my 4 year old twin boys….. both mentally & physically. I have really missed just playing with them. For theu next two days I want to take time to heal my self with good foods and really play with my boys. We are going to eat some yummy stuff, that we prepare together. We are going to go on a outdoor walk/adventure and just have FUN!
There is nothing better than playing with your kids. I hope things get better health wise so you can play more 🙂
Well I started walking last week so I guess that doesn’t count. So by Tuesday this week I will prepack so healthy snacks so I have good food ready to go when I am running late in the mornings or eat at work when I forget to take a lunch.
Yeah for starting last week. I love the prepacked healthy snacks to have on hand. Good luck!
Tuesday I will go on a bike ride. I got a new bike at the start of August it’s something I’ve wanted since we moved to our house in 2007. Finally I found one at a flea market for $10! My mom bought it for me 🙂 I try to go for a ride on it every day that it doesn’t rain or I don’t work late. My mom says it’s the best $10 she ever spent!
That is awesome, you getting on the road and that amazing deal. You go girl!!