Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

What is your self-care package?

18 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this motivational talk, the speaker asks the audience to consider their own self‑care package and then shares his personal routine as an illustration. He describes using music, dancing—even down the aisles of long‑haul flights—and regular exercise as core components that reliably lift his mood and help him manage psychological and emotional stress. He stresses that a self‑care package must be known and consistently applied, because circumstances won’t always be ideal. The speaker offers practical advice, urging listeners to identify and adopt their own consistent self‑care activities, with exercise highlighted as a universally accessible option to get out of one’s head.

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What's your self-care package in this room for you personally? Anybody know your self-care package? I'll go to mine. Ready? Here they are. Music, dancing. I dance down the aisles of airplanes. I'm not joking. I just flew 15 hours to Australia, 24 hours to Australia. I danced down the aisles. I know my self-care package. All the flight attendants think there's a crazy man up in the one seat, but that's fine. I know my self-care package. Because you are not going to always have this go right. You need to know your self-care package. And if you don't know what it is, if you took nothing else away from today, is to figure out what my self-care package is. Which is, when I do these things, I'm in a better place. And it's consistent. If I do these things, I'm in a better place. So I'll tell you common ones. Exercise is a massive self-care package. That when people are dealing frustrated psychologically, emotionally, go and walk. Go do whatever exercise you like. But something to get you out of your head.