John Kenny uses a jug-and-cups metaphor to explain why you need to refill your own energy before giving to others. If you keep pouring into empty cups without replenishing yourself, you run dry. Self-care and people who support you back are how you stay full.
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Hello, I'm John Kenny and welcome to this video today. Today we're going to talk about what I like to call passing around the jug. Now this may seem a bit of a strange concept to, to a lot of people, but my belief in life is that you really need to put yourself first. Because if you don't put yourself first in life, then you will struggle. You'll become overwhelmed. You're always going to be thinking about other people's needs, and your resilience, the resilience that you need in order to get through life, will be severely depleted. Now, I like to describe this by— imagine if you've got a jug of water. By the way, my drawings are terrible. So this is your jug, and you've got lots of people in your life with empty cups. If you keep pouring your water into their cups to sustain them, To make them feel better, eventually you're going to be pretty much left with nothing. How do you then cope? Where do you go to refill your jug? Do you have anybody in your life that's got a jug that can help you, that helps you to feel that your cup Or do you just keep depleting your own jug for the benefit of others? This is why it's so important to put yourself first, to take some time to fill your jug, to make sure that you've got people in your life that can give you some of theirs, to make sure that you never run out. So it is really important for you to put yourself first. Thank you for watching this video today. I hope you found it useful in some way. If you'd like some more information or to talk about how coaching can help you in your life, then please do visit www.johnkennicoaching.com. You can fill out a contact form there, the phone number's there for you to give us a call, and we can look to arrange a complimentary consultation to talk about how coaching can help you in your life. Thank you for watching today. I'll speak to you again soon.
