LOH #206: Creating a Balance between Prioritizing my Needs and Giving to Others.

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Knowing when to create a balance between giving to others and prioritizing your own needs is very essential. Paying attention to others' needs and despising your own needs signifies that you do not love yourself enough, the more reason you value others' needs more than how you value your own needs. Prioritizing your need first before others does not also signifies that you do not love others.

There was a point in my life that I used to pay less attention to my needs and prioritized others' needs. I just could not say no to people even if what they ask for is my last and should be for me. I will not hesitate to give out rather than keeping it for my usage. When life began to happen to me, I noticed that the people I prioritized over my needs never reciprocated the same effort shown to them.

One of the days I went to my very close friend and I requested something from her. She told me she does not have enough to spare. The one she has is for herself and she cannot spare. I felt so bad and betrayed but while I went back home sitting down to ponder on the response, she gave me instead of being angry like I was initially I began to see something different. I began to see how much she prioritized her needs to giving out to me. She thought about herself first but that did not make her a bad person but it will make her avoid going to beg from another something she had but sacrificed to someone else. She noticed that she will be overextending herself and it will definitely make her unhappy. I definitely learnt to start prioritizing my needs to giving my last to others but that never made me stop giving but I was able to clearly boundaries, I gave when I was comfortable. I made sure that my giving does not encroach on my needs.

Creating a balance between giving to others and prioritizing your own needs is one thing that should be considered important. Learn the act of saying NO stop displeasing yourself to please others. Give to others when you have excess and not when what you have is just for yourself and You will end up giving to others while discomforting yourself.

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