take yourself seriously

sometimes I feel like we're halfway serious with ourselves or we don't take ourselves seriously not in the sense that we don't understand who we are we don't understand that you know we're real people and we have real things to do real responsibilities and such but in terms of how we feel about things and what we want to necessarily achieve in this world I feel like we don't take ourselves seriously enough you I made a video about um taking responsibility for yourself and I feel like it kind of works in the same light in the same

way that we have to take responsibility and accountability for our actions we also have to take ourselves seriously enough to realize that our actions do tend towards something and they have value and substance regardless of you know what some external Factor may think and saying take yourself seriously I mean you know take that jump you know he who jumps owes no explanation to those who sit and watch and not to say that you nobody knows your internal working with you nobody's going to know what you're going through nobody's going to know how you see things

how you perceive things your opinion unless you share it but you and that's also to say you're the only one who can live out your life so why not take yourself seriously and in saying take yourself seriously I don't mean hold yourself to a crazy high standard to the point where you're essentially uncomfortable but give yourself Grace while also pushing yourself forward take yourself seriously in the sense that if you want something you actually want to do it and you're actually actively pursuing it 100% give 100% to that something actually try actually give yourself to

whatever you want to achieve sometimes you have to give yourself to it before it can give itself to you and in saying that I mean that our passion or or our dreams or aspirations some someone get mixed up in our in ability to act or inability to take what we like or what we desire seriously in a sense that maybe we feel like it's unattainable or maybe we feel like it's not for us in a specific moment and I've talked about this in recent videos but I feel like there is no past self to overcome

and there is no future self to to achieve who you are now is enough and who you are going to be essentially can already be now you know I feel like it's really just the dichotomy of our perceptions how we distance our future self from our s or distance of perception of where we can go from our current self and I'm realizing that it's no different so when saying take yourself seriously I mean realize that you have just as much potential just as much power and influence to do what you want right now at this

moment it's not about waiting for the right time it's about making yourself the right person to seize the opportunity whenever it arrives it could be today today tomorrow it could be any moment but it's not about the moment it's about being able to take advantage of the moment being able to be present within the moment enough to seize your opportunity and seize what you want to achieve which is another thing I kind of wanted to talk about um living in the moment rather than for it I feel like a lot of us live for the

moment you know we we live for uh not necessarily satisfaction but we disregard the power of the present moment to the point we're only present during maybe certain moment and that's what I mean living for the moment you we wait until something shows us our value rather than valuing ourselves at the very moment I feel like it's important to Value yourself in the moment where you are now and saying take yourself seriously like take your own opinion of yourself seriously as well and if it's not good make it good you kind of have to be

there for yourself you're the only person that knows you 99% of who you are is is an internal thing the rest the one person is external that's what you interact with that's what people just see but how you feel about yourself is going to be shown in the world a lot of things are just projections of of how we feel about ourselves so in saying that I mean you have to really get on top of that focus on how you feel about yourself you know before you focus on how you feel about everything else I

feel like once you get a solid foundation with how you feel if you have enough self love self appreciation for yourself you'll start to love and appreciate everything around you I feel like that's one of the most beautiful things you you can experience just being a human learning to appreciate everything around you learning to to love the things you see you know but separately realizing when things aren't a part of yourself but still being able to appreciate it if it's not you I feel like that's the true beauty of like interaction and being in this

social this social space like right now there's a lot of stuff that I feel like I don't necessarily do but I can appreciate you know but it makes me appreciate what I can do more takes more serious what I do you know like not in a sense of like I'm like super prideful about it or uh if someone was to talk about I'd be like flating it or something like that but in a sense that I'm going to make sure I feel good about what I do I'm going to make sure I feel good about

myself take myself seriously enough to take care of myself take myself seriously enough to to care about what I care about care about how I feel about certain things to the point where I know no matter the situation no matter what happens I know I got my back you know finding a best friend within yourself will allow you to to cultivate your relationships even better I feel like The more I've been able to understand myself The more I've been able to give other people Grace cuz I feel like a lot of a lot of times

we either put people on a pedestal or we try to uh I don't know feel like we're above them sometimes and in putting people on a pedestal I feel like we fail to realize that everybody's human everyone has a complex life they live and everybody endorses pretty much the same random set of problems we're in the same environment they everybody deals with some of the same stuff you know and in saying that 99% of you is internal that's why you can't see it but everyone's going through something everybody's got something and once you realize that

you realize that you know there's no point in focusing on what other people got going on as long as you realize that you have your own stuff going on and I'm not saying be selfish I'm not saying don't acknowledge when other people have stuff going on I'm saying don't disregard yourself I'm not saying put your I'm not saying put yourself above everyone but treat yourself like you are somebody like you are someone you have to take care of you know I feel like you should give that attention to yourself you should take yourself seriously enough

to care for yourself and to give yourself Grace but also push yourself when you need to like for example right after I made this video I gotta uh finish essay of mine and also got to do a little group case case study but you know I'm up and I'm doing it I mean I can Pat myself on the back for that one I said this in an interview once do push pat yourself on the back that's the type of appreciation you have to give yourself sometimes it's not always easy to just live your life dayto

day and you don't always have to do Grand things to be appreciative of what you do sometimes wake it up in the morning and getting up on time or getting up in general is enough it's about that love you give yourself when you're not necessarily getting love elsewhere when nothing else is showing you you know reasons to love yourself giving yourself reasons to love yourself being there for yourself and taking yourself seriously even when no one else will cuz if you don't take yourself seriously how do you expect other people to if you don't love

yourself adequately how can you expect other people to it's about being in that moment being there for you you know I feel like a lot of our life's issues and stuff slip away and are partially caused by our inability to be present with ourselves like we can't be in a moment enough to realize when stuff is going to uh harm us or when things are not necessarily integral to our character or do not serve us so we embark on those Journeys regardless and and then come to realize it days later or in some sort of

reflection of the past that maybe that wasn't for us maybe that wasn't a good idea and that's okay I feel like stuff like that inherent to Being Human but at the same time you know we would pose us more of a benefit to be present with ourselves to take ourselves seriously and and truly be someone that you know we can look up to while being at the same time like be happy that you are you who we are is I feel like Beyond comparison you're so much of an individual I feel like everyone's so much

of an individual like nobody can be compared in in many ways in many respects in terms of our our character and Who We Are if you don't feel like you're a good person you can always be better I feel like you always have time to change you always have time to to do everything and if you don't have time and you're not here then you're not here for it but while you have time while you take up space you might as well use it you might as well do everything you can take yourself seriously enough

to go chase your dreams go do what you want with with your life essentially I mean of course take care of your responsibility but take care of yourself take care of your passion take care of your your goals take care of what you want to do not don't just take care of of of other people's work or you know other people of course take care of them but take yourself seriously too you know just as much love and affection as you want to spread in the world you probably need to give to yourself first just

as much as you want to receive from the world or from other people you probably have to give to yourself first and establishing that comfortable Foundation within yourself I feel like it gives us ample opportunity to give it to other people and experience I don't know more depth to our relationships more depth to life instead of looking at life just as like this shallow surface thing like I wake up I do this I do this I go to bed make it more intimate you know make life personal make life not necessarily serious but intentional let

me in the kitchen am I cooking hey chat just let me know if I'm cooking in the comments be honest but um yeah it's about intention you know if you want to feel a certain way what are the steps you need to take to get there if you don't know I would I would say start with feeling start with not necessarily chasing the feeling but feeling the feeling already imagine how you would feel if you if you found it and it'll I feel like in some ways it'll lead you to where you where you want

to go um if I don't even know I don't even want to close out right now cuz I feel like I really got to the point I want to get to and taking yourself seriously you know realizing that you are a person person who who deserves respect appreciation and love and the one person that you need it from the one person that I feel like you deserve it from the most is yourself I mean how intimate is that how how lovely is that to be the person who knows pretty much everything about you all your

flaws your insecurities all the good things the bad things and still being able to love you I feel like that's the most wholesome kind of love you can ever experience at least in in in some sort of self sense I don't know I don't really know how it gets when you uh embarking that Journey with someone else like to that extent but um in general like the depth of love you can feel for yourself I feel like you can spread to others it's about looking yourself in the mirror regardless of what you see regardless of

what it is and and knowing that you love it knowing that like you're taking that seriously oh yeah you know I mess with that guy right there he's that's that's what I'm taking care of that's what I'm doing like I'm not necessarily saying like play a role but be present with yourself enough to enough to be you and not be the circumstance like don't be painted by your environment don't be painted by your your situation be painted by the the quality of your character and and who you aim to be if you made this far

in the video thank you all so much I can't say thank y'all enough I really can't like the amount of support I've been getting astronomical it's actually a beautiful thing to see um I'mma keep posting these vids consistently this is coming up I think this is going be posted like 4: tomorrow and I'm probably going I'm going try to put two more episodes of uh of this onto Spotify so you guys can start listening on there too what else what else what else but yeah um there's more on the way you made it this far

thank you again be intentional today try to get what you need to done if you're on spring break enjoy your spring break man make sure yall staying healthy and such I'm staying healthy um yeah but most importantly just treat yourself like someone you're trying to help