Top 5 Reasons to be Courteous to Yourself

It's hard to be decent to yourself. I know it.

With work and family or school and work (did I mention work?), it's hard to give yourself permission to treat yourself with the same courtesy you expect from others. But let's take a step back a minute and think about this. Treating other people better than you treat yourself? Even without becoming a selfish member of the Me! Me! Me! generation, does that really make sense?

I think not.

And on that note ... here are the Top 5 reasons to be decent to yourself:

5. If you don't take care of yourself, you won't have the mental energy, strength or resilience to do all of those things you have to do in your life -- including taking care of those around you.

4. If you don't respect yourself and your time, nobody else will either.

3. Treating yourself badly will leave you feeling frustrated, angry and/or depressed. Like you don't have value. And that's no good, right?

2. If you can't give courtesy to yourself, how can you recognize how to behave courteously towards others?

And ... finally ...

1. If you don't do it, who else is going to do it for you?