Secure Your Own Mask First Analysis

Secure Your Own Mask First (Page 67)
This section from the Arianna Huffington’s book Thrive really spoke to me, and I underlined almost the entire thing! The main idea of this part of the book that the author is trying to communicate is how important it is to actually take good care of yourself in order to be able to do anything else well, or to be able to help or be a positive impact on anyone else’s life. Using the analogy securing your own oxygen mask so that you can breathe and in turn help others to get their masks on and help them, there is a very good point to be understood: How can we expect to be able to work effectively, achieve our goals, get things done, and have successful relationships with others if we aren’t even properly breathing
And the sad truth is that the same relationships that I claim to care so much about are what usually take the hit because the people who care about me want to see me well taken care of too, and if I’m not taking proper care of myself, how can I really be of any help, support, or even enjoyment to them? My realization while reading this part of the book is that through making sure that I take care of myself and give myself the time that I need to be as happy, healthy, and stress-free as possible, I am actually doing a favor to those around me and will in turn be strengthening my relationships with others because I will personally have more to
I am a major hurry-er, I seem to be hurrying through all of my life! I am not quite sure where I got this from, and I will say that it definitely also has its benefits too, I get things done, and I can get them done fast. But there is also the downside that hurrying through life means I may miss things that you would enjoy and experience if I would just slow down every now and then and take time to enjoy and actually just “live” the moment. I think this is especially important to my personal relationships, sometimes I find myself spending time with someone who I care about, and at the same time feeling guilty that I’m not getting more things done at the same time or multitasking or what say you. Instead of just enjoying the quality time that I have to spend with another human being, I’m mentally organizing my to-do list and thinking of what I want to or need to get done once our encounter is over. This is something that I have noticed about myself before, but reading this section of the book made me a lot more conscious of it, and it also scared me into thinking that I don’t want to be a parent someday who is rushing their kids around and is so concerned about getting things done and being organized that the poor kids barely get to live a little. I do not have children yet, but I