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Benefits of Giving Yourself a Special Treat
How often do you remember yourself? This is a simple, yet, serious question. You are usually occupied with one activity or several, that makes you neglect how important putting yourself first and foremost may be. At times, you have to be your first worry, your first thought, and your first concern. You have to learn how to appreciate and cultivate a habit of caring for yourself. How do you achieve this? Quite simple, “Give Yourself a Special Treat.”
Most people often regard “treats” like a luxurious, frivolous strategy. However, this is not true. Treat serve as a wonderful way of rewarding yourself. By giving yourself a special treat, you feel cared for, energized, and content. Furthermore, giving yourself a treat helps in boosting self-command. This is a good way to maintain healthy habits. Join me, as we take a look at why it’s important to treat ourselves to something special.
A Reward for Your Hard Work 
It’s not easy to manage a full-time job and still be able to juggle social, family and other commitments. However, you know how important all these are which makes it impossible for you to complain. In addition, you may have a second job, hit the gym, church activities, and other family commitments. This is not an easy task to do all that without burning out. In case you haven’t realized this yet, you are doing pretty well. If you haven’t, guess it’s time to take the time and reward yourself for your awesomeness.
Keeps You Energize
A good way to keep yourself from burning out is by taking a break. Shake it off, smile, release some steam. Just like anyone else, you deserve a personal day. Pick one day in the month or week just for you, even if it’s just for a few hours. You will definitely be amazed just how invigorating it can be to pause, reminisce, and allow yourself some well needed me time. This keeps you energized, and rejuvenated.
Feel-good Sensation
Little do we know that giving ourselves a special treat makes us feel good, even if it is by doing something small. Giving yourself a special treat does not necessarily means it has to be a big one. In fact, we can appreciate the little treats more, sometimes.
Simply take a walk, stroll down to the store, or treat yourself to a spa or a movie. By doing this, you will get the instant feel-good sensation which is often felt when we do something good for our soul. This is a great way to reduce stress and take your mind off of the worries of life.
Establish Self-regard
Studies have revealed that individual who give themselves a special treat also gain in self-control. Special treats are one of the secrets of adulthood. What this mean is that giving more to yourself essentially, makes you ask more from yourself. As you can see, there is nothing selfish about self-regard. In fact, by not giving yourself any treat, you are likely to feel depleted, burned-out, and resentful.
Self-remembrance
You might be so occupied with helping others; you end up forgetting yourself. You can easily get caught up in the same routine giving and helping friends, colleagues, family, and loved ones.
After looking at all you do for others, it might be the time to be kind to yourself. Being kind to yourself will also broaden your ability to be good to and to help others. When you remember yourself, you will gain a greater sense of awareness when it comes to helping someone else. This can be a double reward, by showing others you are willing to take time for yourself, may display more self-remembrance in them. This is exactly what giving yourself a special treat offers you.
Look for ways to give yourself a special treat from time to time. It can be vacation trips, soothing spa, movie night, a special meal, power nap, and tons more. There is nothing wrong in making yourself feel special like a king or queen. Do whatever makes you relax, unwind and unload. You will feel healthy and restored. It will also prepare you to take on the next task ahead.
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