What is up? Welcome back to build. And today we are going to talk about all things self-care.

So I wanted to talk about this topic because it is something that I do not speak too much. And I want to explain why I don't speak to it much. And I also want to speak to it.

So the reason I don't speak about self-care much is because I had a pretty poor experience in my past with people who really over-indexed on self-care.

And what I mean is they really over-index the importance of how routine and self-discipline and doing all these things on a day-to-day basis and taking four or five hours

every day to take care of yourself would lead to success so much so that it created a lot of anxiety

for me like I had more anxiety around the thought of not keeping up with my self-care than the

self-care took away right and so like the whole point of taking care of ourselves is that we want to feel good,

we want to be clear, we want to be mentally sound.

And I actually found that it really was stressing me out because I felt like I was constantly

just trying to keep up with all the things needed to take care of myself.

And so I really steered away for a couple of years after that from speaking anything over people

into like routine or self-care because I actually just was trying to understand what I really

believed about it. And where I've kind of fallen is that I really believe that true self-care

is self-discipline. And I get it because a lot of times when people think about self-care,

they think about bubble baths, they think about face masks, they think about eating your favorite junk food,

they think about tropical vacations, right? I beg to differ. I think that self-care is not the spa day

that you want. I think it is the 5 a.m. workout that you really need, right? Because if you're

running a company, or even if you're building one from scratch, or even if you're just working

within one, the type of self-care you need is the type that builds self-trust and self-respect.

What you need is discipline. Okay. Self-discipline is self-care in action because skipping the

hard stuff today costs us trust and respect for ourselves tomorrow. And that is really my philosophy

around self-care. It's just that we want to do things that make us like and

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