Want Your Best Year?
Do This ONE Thing

When I coach nurses in the Well-Being Coaching Initiative, I don’t advise, tell, or prescribe what to do to take care of themselves. They already know what they need to do, and so do you. The challenge is actually doing it and requires one thing and that is to prioritize—specifically, prioritize yourself.

You already make time for the most important things in your life, and you have to prioritize yourself and your well-being to be one of those important things. If you are new to this concept of Self-Leadership, it may sound selfish but it really is self-full. When you don’t prioritize your well-being, the high cost is your time, energy, and eventually your health and happiness, because you cannot be your best mother, wife, leader, or friend when you are running on empty vs. full.

Prioritizing yourself means making yourself important enough to get to the gym, prepare your lunch (and eat it), go to bed earlier, take a walk, or embrace a creative project because you know what helps you feel good about yourself. You commit to getting it done in your busy life because you know putting your well-being first supports you to show up to be your best when you feel your best.

Whatever you decide your priority is for your well-being this year, commit yourself fully to do it and recommit as often as necessary, daily and sometimes several times a day. Like all practices, when you develop the routine to prioritize yourself, it requires less energy, effort and explanation, because you have created a habit. You get to feel good about yourself for getting to the gym on a cold and dark morning and everyone else feels good because they experience your best self.

Prioritizing yourself is your commitment to be your best which creates your best year.

Happy New Year.