Are you taking care of yourself ?

A cobbler lived in a large village and he was the only cobbler in town, so he was responsible for repairing the boots of everybody else. However, he didn’t have time to repair his own boots. This wasn’t a problem at first, but over time, his boots began to deteriorate and fall apart. While he worked feverishly on the boots of everyone else, his feet got blisters and he started to limp. His customers started to worry about him, but he reassured them that everything was ok. However, after a few years, the cobbler’s feet were so injured that he could no longer work and no-one’s boots got repaired. As a consequence, soon the entire town started to limp in pain, all because the cobbler never took the time to repair his own boots.
This simple principle is so often disregarded. If you don’t look after yourself, after a while you’ll be no good to anyone else either.  Your best intentions will mean nothing and you’ll be unable to do what you’re meant to do. This goes for leaders, social workers, teachers, advocates, even parents. If you don’t take the time to care for yourself, no-one else will. 
Are you taking care of yourself ?

This was a forwarded message I received on WhatsApp. 

A nice thought something we tend to ignore. We so love helping everyone else but we always tend to forget our own self. We always think others come first, what about “I” well … I will get there, things are good, no tension, just normal pain in back, normal cough in neck, normal ….. 

STOP!!!

If cup is empty you will have nothing to offer. Start thinking about self to be able to help others. 

It’s not called selfish… its called SELF CARE 

Kindly start taking good care of self.