One of the great things about self-isolation is you have lots of time on your hands to just chill. Time to do all the things you don’t ordinarily have time for, right? Things like reading a new book, cooking, baking, playing board games with your kids, binge watching the latest season of your favourite show on Netflix, meditating, doing yoga, even cutting your own hair.
This pandemic pause has focused our attention inward like never before. Not in a selfish way, mind you, but in a positive one. We’re staying off the roads, staying home, slowing down, and being kinder and more loving to ourselves, each other and the Earth.
Imagine love and kindness being things we needed to be reminded of. Crazy, right?
Decades before the pandemic, someone we all know and love had something to say about it. You remember Lucille Ball and the old I Love Lucy show? Turns out, while we were all loving Lucy, Lucy was loving herself.
“I have an every day religion that works for me,” she said. “I love myself first, and everything else falls into line.”
Imagine loving yourself first. All the time. And everything else falling into line because of it.
Let’s try a little pandemic experiment: For the next seven days, in every life situation, ask yourself this question: “Is this what I would do if I truly loved myself?”
You might be surprised at the answers you get… and the way your decisions and your life change because of it.
Don’t thank me… Thank Lucy.
