We are big on self care, often highlighting it’s essential role in maintaining a healthy, satisfying and productive life — self preservation on the other hand is essentially the shell to self-care's hermit crab. Meaning you need both to survive.

In the same way that we need to care for ourselves we need also need self protection, too. "Self-Preservation" — is therefor a key fundemntal element in ensuring we have a sustainable enjoyable, satisfying and productive life.

But what exactly is there to preserve and protect?

We only need look at our life to see/find the answer (s). The following list is a good place to start..

Our self esteem and thereby our self confidence and image

Our values that are the cornerstone of our life

Our motivation that gets us to do the things that we do

Our talents which help us to achieve our goals

Our growth that has made us the person we are today

Our development that enhances and boosts our efforts at improvement

How we manage ourselves - maintaining our efforts as to not only keep what we have but accomplish more and meet new challenges

Our discipline that helps keep us on the path we walk

Our control that helps keep the elements of our life (and this list is an important part of that) in balance and helping us move forward

Our personality, so that we are able to live, give, share and contribute

Our behaviour so that it moves along with our growth and development

Our attitude that it be good and wholesome, free yet flexible, strong and determined, giving and resolute

Preserving self..

The task may appear formidable. But most of these are natural if you care and look after yourself - if you adopt a self preservation mode in life.

For most of us preserving our self is something that easily takes second place to many other things in life. Yet it needs to one of our number priorities in our day to day. Of course we are worth the effort, time, attention, care, love and all those good things.

Whatever we give to our favorite hobby, our beloved pet, our partner in life, we should equally give that amount of effort and time to ourselves. If we don't then who will.

There is much to preserve and protect..

There is much about us and our lives that we should care for, preserve, safeguard, maintain and defend selflessly. After all, self love and compassion is something we can all do more with on a more regularly basis.

In doing so, self preservation will not only maintain us on the path through life that we lead, but energise us, motivate us, propel us, and give us the momentum to meet life's many challenges on the road to fulfilling our true and full potential.

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