Nancy BosSpeaker, StudioBos · Award-Winning Author, TEDx Speaker, Vocologist, and Founder of Empowered Voices

Taking Care of Yourself is Empowering #shorts

22 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this short motivational tip, the speaker addresses people who habitually prioritize others over themselves. She repeats the familiar advice to "put the oxygen mask on yourself first," emphasizing that one must first become healthy, happy, and whole before they can sustainably give to others. The message frames self‑care as a prerequisite for effective generosity, encouraging listeners to prioritize their own wellbeing so they can later give "to their heart's content" from a place of personal wholeness.

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This tip of the day is for those of you, my friends, who tend to give to other people all the time and never to yourself. I know you've heard it before, but I think you probably need to hear it again. Put the oxygen mask on yourself first. What that means in this case is that you need to be your healthiest self, your happiest self, your most whole self. And once you've got those things in place, then you can give, give, give to your heart's content, but not until you are your best you first.