Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. So today is going to be a little bit of a more serious video because that's what I'm about. We are here to motivate, we are here to inspire, we are here to help one another through this journey of life and its experiences and things that we go through. So this video is going to be about self-care. It's about tips on to take care of yourself, to look after yourself, to help you better deal with the experiences that life has to put in front of you or will be putting in front of you as time goes along. So if you would like to see this video on self-care tips looking after yourself then please keep watching. So the first thing that we need to understand is the whole notion of self-care. What does self-care mean? Self-care means exactly what it says. Looking after and taking care of yourself. At the end of the day we have so many things that we go through the stresses of life, anxiety, depression, mental health, things that basically affect us in such a way that we forget to look after ourselves and to take care of ourselves. So self-care literally looks at the fact that you need to put yourself first. In some instances as much as it may be difficult, as much as you may be a family person or you may be all about the people around you, the only way to perform at your optimum best is to take care of yourself. So I'm going to give you some tips as to how you can do that because I think I started really well especially when I went on the healthy lifestyle journey where I started to look at looking after myself and taking care of myself. So we're going to start with point number one. So the first thing that is very, very important when it comes to self-care is looking after yourself. So this involves things like get a good night's rest, sleep. Sleep is so, so important for you to be able to be your optimum best. We can sit here and talk about sleep all day and say, oh no, I'll only sleep on a day. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's to working, yes to drive, yes to ambition. But sleeping gives you the energy to be able to perform at your ultimate best. So you need to at least, at least at the very least, get five hours of sleep. I say five hours. Normally they say seven to eight hours. But honestly, I know how life is. I know that work is stress, school is stress. But the most important thing is to get some rest. And the only way you can do that is to sleep because when you sleep, your body recharges. Have you ever noticed when you're sick, maybe you've got an ear ache or an eye ache or an eye infection or whatever, when you sleep, you wake up feeling better the next day. Sleep gives you a body that time to recharge, to get ready for the next day. So please sleep well, okay? Sleep well. And then the next thing is eat well as well. Eating well is so important. I cannot stress to you how important eating well is. I really, I really get it. Exercising the habit, making it a habit. You know, self-care, that's another thing that I want to mention about self-care is making self-care a habit. If you decide to do it because you just feel like, you know what, I want to take care of myself or whatever, you're soon going to run out of steam and you're going to end up falling back into the old patterns that you have that really don't assist you with anything, to be honest, it just doesn't assist you. Once you make self-care a habit, I tell you it's going to change everything. So eating healthy is one of the most important things because when you feel healthy, you are healthier, you look healthier, you exercise, you take care of yourself, you, but you eat the correct foods because it makes you feel better. And when you eat the correct foods, I'm telling you things like greens and lots of water and cutting out sugars and all that, we can preach it all damn day, but the thing is it actually works. It actually helps you so much to feel so much more better. It gives you a lot more energy, it makes you more productive as well. Have you noticed when you eat a burger, how you feel after you eat a burger and chips? I'm not saying don't eat those things. What I'm saying is exercise a little bit of restraint in the bad eating department and exercise a whole lot of openness into eating healthy because it helps so, so much a constress to you how much it helps. And then the next point is keep active. To keep healthy and to keep active and to sleep well helps you perform better at whatever it is that you're doing. It helps your mind rest, sleeping helps your mind rest, eating correctly helps your body feel better. It's more energized. You get to do more things, you get to be more productive throughout the day. Being active also helps you not put your body into slumber and get lazy. At the end of the day, you don't want to be lazy, especially if you're held on ambition and drive and getting some way and achieving your goals, then you want to keep active. Keeping active means walks or yoga or exercise or chim or whatever then do that. Do whatever it takes for you to get to a point where you feel that you know what I feel good every single day. I feel good because I've had enough sleep. I'm eating the correct foods and I'm active. So you need to do. And then the next point is take part in self care habits that will help you. So these are things that you really, really love to do but pay more attention to them. So if you love to record, if you're a YouTuber and you love to record, pay more attention to it. Don't just sit and like, okay, today I'm going to do a video on this and this and this and then pay more attention to it. Put a little bit more energy into it. Sort of tell yourself, ask yourself, why am I doing this? What does it feel in me? Is it a passion? Am I doing it just because, oh well, something that I have to do or what have you? It's a way in which you can acknowledge the fact that you're taking care of yourself by doing something that you really, really love to do. Another thing is unplug. Unplugged. See, this thing right here is a problem. This thing right here is such a problem because it's one of the things that just inhibit us from unplugging. Sometimes even just for an hour in a day, we've come back from work or you've come back from school or what have you. Unplugged. Put the TV off, switch your phone off or put it on sign but put it very far away where you don't have to see it. Stay away from Twitter and WhatsApp and Facebook and all of that. Literally take some time to yourself for yourself so that you can be better so that it can get you to think about things differently. Because we do all these things each and every single day but it becomes so regular, routine that we just don't even think about it anymore. It's like something that, oh well, it's fine. I'm going to go into YouTube. I'm going to do whatever. But if you unplug and you give yourself some time to yourself, just be in your space for a while. It's good. It's good. You need to do that. While you do that, pick up a book and read. If you read, you open your mind up, you open your mind up to thinking differently. Opens up your imagination, broadens it as well at the same time. So it's very, very important because these things, the more you do them, is when they become a habit. So when you consider things like that, it is so, so important to actually take care of yourself and look after yourself in such a way that you become a better person for yourself and for others. Look after yourself because at the end of the day, we come into this world alone and we leave it alone. As much as there are people around us, but we need to know that we need to take care of ourselves. So we are operating an optimum best, each and every single day. You become a better person for it. So exercise some self-care. Do some things that make you happy, but also make you a better person. So that's all I have to say in terms of self-care. Look after yourself because that's all we need in this world. Your a better you is a better you for yourself and for everybody else. Okay? Alright. So until the next one, live in light and love and I'll see you soon. Bye.