Happy Love Your Work Day!

𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒅𝒂𝒚. Okay so it isn’t actually! I flat-out lied.

I just wanted to ride the Valentine’s Day wave so I thought I would commercialise Valentine’s Day a bit more. Oops! What I meant to say was I only wanted to be innovative in my work.

As we all know it is super important to be innovative if you want to advance in your career or be a top expert, top writer or top salesman. So why not take advantage of Valentine’s Day and milk it for all it’s worth. After all it’s not like it’s been done to death or we’re all really sick of it. Okay, so maybe a few of us are a bit sick of it.

Love Struck Teenager

God, when I think back to when I was an excitable love struck teenager. The excitement leading up to Valentine’s Day was excruciating. Would I, wouldn’t I get a card? Does he, doesn’t he love me?

Oh the agony of waiting.

Oh the ecstasy when you received a card which had S.W.A.L.K (sealed with a loving kiss) written on the back of the envelope.

Oh, the humiliation if you didn’t get a card. The feeling of being so unworthy and undesirable and worse still being laughed at by your so called friends. It was a kind of exquisite torture.

Life was so simple in those days. A man declared his love for a woman and gave them a card and some flowers🌹 and then the woman would fall into his strong muscular arms and the fun would begin. To be honest that only really happened in the movies, real life was a lot less romantic.

But, time and tide waits for no man and things have moved on. Valentine’s Day is no longer reserved for lovers. Far from it. I kinda feel like there is little left of the essence of romance that was the hallmark of Valentine’s Day in the past.

At one point it was little more than another shameless money making opportunity. Frankly, I hold the Americans responsible for commercialising it dumbing down the romance element. They extended the scope of Valentines day to include all loved ones.

Soon you were sending Valentine’s wishes to your brother, your sister, your, mum, your dad, the cat, the dog and postman Pat. Well, maybe not postman Pat but you get the picture.

Valentine’s Day has now morphed beyond recognition. There are even Valentine weekends for beeches!!!

I was mega impressed when my friend announced she was part of a “𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒅”. She and other volunteers were out cleaning up the beech. Fabulous! What a great idea!

Love Yourself

So today, in the spirit of love and Valentine’s Day I want you to love yourself because if you don’t love yourself no one else will!!!

If you make a mistake, give yourself a break and speak to yourself nicely.

— Forgive yourself.

— Learn from the mistake.

— Strategise for the future.

— Implement a plan to help you grow.

Would Saint Valentine approve of this new improved version of Valentine’s Day. No idea! But there is one thing I am sure about and that’s self love.

It’s not wrong to love yourself. It’s not vain or egotistical. It is 100% necessary. The ancient texts tell us exactly this. Know yourself and love yourself because when you are strong in love, you have more love to spread to others.

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