﻿My Thoughts On The Self Care Care Movement [0:00:00]
Self-care? Guys that engaged in self-care are a bunch of freaking... [Sound effect]. A decade ago,
that probably would have been my response to the self-care question.
Me? My background, I grew up in a trailer park in West Texas around men
that worked on the oil rigs. After college, I went to the United States Marine Corps.
The guys I look up to, they didn’t [bleeping sound], they didn’t complain and they sure
as hell didn’t need a manicure to go out there and make things happen.
And to be completely transparent, the word itself, self-care, seems to imply selfishness,
self-righteousness, and a focus in on the frivolous the non-important.
All the being said, my opinion on self-care has actually evolved over the last decade. What am I
talking about? Find out, gents, in today’s video. [Music]
Now, to start things off, I’m going to share a self-care routine with you and I want your
honest opinion of it down in the comments. So, you wake up at 8:00 AM, you use the bathroom
and you go actually back to bed. In bed, you have breakfast served to you and you
do some work and reading for the next three hours, again, just hanging out in your bed.
Now, at 11:00 AM, you get out of bed and you go to the bathroom. You get to spend about
an hour here taking a bath, showering, taking care of all the essential business. And then,
you’re going to go for a nice walk. Take a drink with you, just whatever you want and for an hour,
you’re going to go out strolling. Then, you’re going to come back and, hey, it’s meal time.
Now, at 1:00 PM, you’re having a really nice meal with family,
friends, and even guests who are coming in. You’re just engaged in catching up with people
two, two and half hours, this meal is going on, multiple servings. You’re going to have desserts,
you’re going to maybe have a drink afterwards, just catching up having a really nice time.
Now, at 3:00, 3:30, you got some options. Maybe you want to go get some work done
around the house, you want to maybe head into your study and do some reading,
do a little bit work to be able to catch up, get started for the day. Or maybe, hey, you want to
spend some time with your partner, with your wife and you, I don’t know, play game of backgammon.
Now, at 5:00 PM, you take your siesta a.k.a. your nap for about an hour, hour and a half. And then
at 6:30, you’re back in the bathroom, go ahead and shower, clean up again and you are dressed
and down for dinner at 8:00 PM. Now, at dinner, similar to lunch,
you’ve got some guests over. This is when you’re starting to entertain you’re engaging,
because the meal is important, but just as important is the conversation.
You’re starting to talk a little bit of business, things go on and if it’s a great conversation,
it will go well past 11:00. At about midnight though, you say goodnight to
your guest and you go ahead and head back in your study, get about an hour’s worth
of work done before retiring for the night. So, what do you think, pretty interesting routine,
right? A lot of self-care throughout that day. I mean, if you add it up at a 24-hour period,
this guy spends a lot of time sleeping, napping, grooming, spending time with friends,
going on walks, eating. In fact, from what I just described,
you could argue this is the selfish routine of a millennial living at home
indulging in all of these self-care. So, what if I were to tell you, that was
the actual routine of Sir Winston Churchill? Yeah, that’s same Winston Churchill who won
the Nobel Prize for Literature and led England through its darkest hours.
And interesting thing? He’s not an anomaly when it comes to men who have shaped the world. Just
look at Mahatma Gandhi’s daily routine from 4:00 AM to 9:00 PM. About half that time is
spent in what you could call self-care. He’s going for walks. He’s eating meals.
He’s taking time to groom himself. He actually is just simply spending time
working on things that he finds self-fulfilling. Now, of course, work has to get done. But, my
point here to show you these routines of these two men, who have transformed the world, yet seem to
spend half their time focusing in on themselves, making themselves better, taking care of their
basic needs is that self-care does have a place. I know for me, one of the issues I had with people
using self-care, talking about it, pushing it is they were coming off as self-righteous,
like they discovered something and that you need to understand this. And if you don’t, you’re wrong
and if you’re not, you know, doing what they say you need to do that, yeah, you’re somehow
inferior and that they’re at a higher level. So, nowadays when I see the word, self-care,
I reframe it more to be about self-improvement. For me, that has a much more positive connotation.
Self-care, maybe I’ll never fully shake, that I just don’t like the word.
But, when it comes down to it, you think about self-improvement. Improving your
self- consciousness, your understanding of who you are and what you want to go after in your
life. That’s a very important concept that many people can improve can work on should spend time
every single day if you consider that self-care. That’s a great thing, improving your
consciousness. Just what do you want to get out of this one life? Improving your self-confidence.
That is you understanding what you’re capable of, what you’re – what you can do in this life,
what you’re good at and then working on it. These are great things.
So, for me, when I reframe it as self-improvement, I find that it’s
much more palatable and for me fits into kind of my directions and where I want to go.
All right, gents. So, I know you got an opinion. I want to hear from you down in the comments.
What do you think about self-care? Let me know. And, gents, if you’re looking to get started with
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aren’t good for your body. [0:05:03]
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So, what video to watch next? How about the killer morning routine? Seriously, if you enjoy
our videos, if you haven’t seen this one, you are in for a treat. There are so many Easter eggs,
we had a lot of fun with this video. If you’ve never seen the movie, American Psycho,
you may not fully get it, but it’s an iconic morning routine and we, yeah, it’s a good one.
Go check out it, guys. The video is right here. [0:06:58] End of audio