How to Prioritize Self Care and Discover The Meaning of Life | Sara Walker EP 485

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11When we say yes to ourselves as opposed to saying yes to everything else in the universe, how does that apply to your studies? It's like you're selecting yourself. One way we think about life, like physics of life, is what gets selected to exist, right? And so in some sense, your yeses are you selecting all the things that you want to allocate your time to. So if you're selecting yourself to exist and you want to have like a certain kind of life, you're saying yes to yourself. What happens when you say yes to everyone else? You're diffusing, you're diffusing yourself and you're like deselecting yourself in favor of other people.

0:45What happens when you deselect yourself? Your intellectual lineage dies. Wow. You think about biological lineage, you have children, like every interaction you have in the world is in some sense, like your children, like that's part of you propagating into the universe, right? Your message, your interactions, your interactions, everything you do. It's creating a ripple. Yes. Yeah. We have a limited time where we actually exist as a individual human. And a lot of your immortality, so to speak, is your impact that you create in the world, the legacy of like what bits of you remain and start to act and like actually continue to influence things.

1:21You know, Einstein's a good example. He lived for a certain period at the beginning of the last century but his impact you know has you know he still exists on the planet in a lot of really interesting intellectual ways and he exists more now intellectually than he does biologically because he didn't have that many kids but intellectually he had a lot of a lot of impact I think when you're thinking about this idea of saying yes to yourself you're just you're trying to focus like what is me and how do I define me and how do I define what kinds of influences I want to have and you actually have control over it instead instead of just, you know, blanket, just sending your bits out into the universe and not really focusing your efforts on what you think actually matters to you and what impact you want to have.

2:01What's one thing that you hope people take away from this? Well, I think one thing I think is an important observation is that we're really young. Like collectively as a species, as things happening on this planet, we're really young and we have a lot of potential and it's hard living. I mean, there's a lot of things happening on the planet, but I think the future can be bright you know there's millions of years ahead of us potentially billions you know people get off the planet and we're at the early stages of that and we can we can do a lot to affect what that looks like that's cool by what's happening on the planet now and what's one thing we should do every day to improve the quality of our life to be able to make a positive impact for millions i think self-love is really i actually really liked your emphasis on that i think that's really important and yeah, saying yes to yourself and also not being hard on yourself.

2:54I think this is something that we do way too much is like we're so self-critical. So it's like if you don't hit that marker, it's like a horrible person, whatever. And I think just having forgiveness for yourself, I personally think it's good to set goals and I like to set big goals, but that puts a certain amount of pressure on you. So then the flip side of it is not to be hard on yourself.

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