How to Have a Productive Self-Love Week

And what exactly is a productive self-love week?

Let’s just clarify. A productive self-love week is pretty much having a week where you give yourself a lot of self-love… Let’s just say the self-love you give to yourself is more than the affirmations.

I have always thought that to have more self-love is to say a lot of affirmations. But it turns out, there’s a lot more things that goes into self-love.

And what exactly are those things? Well, this blog post is going to go through the self-love actions that contribute to more self-love. And also, we’re going to go through how to include all these things in your week. This is so you can have a productive self-love week.

This blog post is definitely for anyone who wants more self-love in their life! Definitely check out my past blog post on self-care tips for more self-love, self-love habits for self-discovery, and daily self-love habits! You can read them after you read this one!

And if there’s something that you do for self-love that is not on this blog post, feel free to let me know through the comments! I’m the only one that sees them so you can be as open as you like!

Let’s get into this!

Time-Savers

First, lets go through some time-savers that can help make the week more productive.

1 – Know what gives you more self-love & what drains the self-love

A good way to save time during the week is to first know what gives you more self-love and what doesn’t.

For example, activities such as exercising, going on walks, and writing in your journal may give you more self-love. Whereas activities such as scrolling through social media or reading the news drain your energy.

By knowing those two, you know what to put your time & energy on, and what you should avoid.

It’s the same as knowing what makes the person you love, feel love. If you know that they feel love when you make them dinner all the time, then you would do it more often. It’s the same with yourself.

2- Know your values

It’s also just as crucial to know your values. This is also something that is different for everybody.

By being self-aware of your values, you have a good idea on how to plan out your week. Obviously, you want to live a life that align with your values. No one wants to be around someone who contradicts themselves and do one thing while doing another.

So list down your core values, and ensure that every activity you do align with those values.

3 – Know your non-negotiables

Along the line with your values, is your non-negotiables.

Your non-negotiables are the things that you absolutely need to get done no matter what.

For example, my non-negotiables include prayer, daily walks, and self-care. No matter how busy my day may be, I’m doing those non-negotiables no matter what.

And these non-negotiables are supposed to be something related to your self-care and self-love. Go back to time-saver #1 where we talk about listing activities that give you more self-love and what drains it. Maybe a few of those self-love givers can be some of your non-negotiable.

4 – Turn your biggest struggles to your greatest life lessons

My biggest lessons has came from my failures and losses.

Sometimes, we have to remember the following things:

• We have to accept that we’ll have regrets – especially when we try things that we have never tried before. It’s better to regret doing, than regret with wonder.
• Turn pain into wisdom – most times, in order to gain wisdom, we need to gain experience through the challenging times.
• In fact, we need to fail more often – some people may be like “what?!” but it’s the truth. We need to fail more often to learn more. Sometimes, failing is what we need when we need a life lesson.

I know that failure can be terrifying. I know that I’m currently in the process of getting into full-time freelancing and terrified that I’m going to fail! But I know that if I don’t do this, I’m going to regret it. Either way, I’ve got my biggest life lesson in store.

But hey, just know that not every life lesson will come from a failure or loss. It’s just that from my experience, the lessons that had come from failure were stronger.

5 – Dump the things you’ve outgrown

There may be activities that you have enjoyed before, but had become an energy drainer.

Or they may be activities that you used to do all the time, and now it feels like a drag.

There will come a time where you just have to dump the things you have outgrown.

There will be things that we will outgrow and that’s 100% okay. It means that we’re growing!

So let go some of the things you feel you have outgrown. You can always replace it with the countless activities there.

Throughout the week

Now let’s go through what to do throughout the week for a more productive self-love week!

DAILY

1 – Start your day with gratitude

Or end your day with gratitude. Or both.

As long as you do take the small time to appreciate what you have.

I’ve been guilty of getting so caught up on what I want in the future that I forget about the things I have now. But when I do take the time to appreciate what I have now, I stop stressing about what is to come in the future.

Gratitude is a very powerful self-love exercise! It reminds of the things that are going good so far. Gratitude can help in the good times and bad. When things are good, we’re grateful. When things are challenging, we’re grateful, and the things we appreciate gives a bit of light to our day.

So every day, even just 2 minutes, take the time to do gratitude!

2 – Move your body every day

AKA exercise. Even on days when you don’t work out, at least move your body.

Showing yourself that you’re caring for your body is self-love.

When you take good care of yourself by taking care of your health, you’re mastering self-love already.

Because if you didn’t really care about your body and health, the truth is, your self-love may be in a low level.

Because your health & body is literally what drives you day-to-day, that’s why we need to take care of it.

So take the time to make some movement. Even if it’s just a walk. Or some stretches.

3 – Set 5 mins a day for reflecting on what’s amazing about you
Let’s say straight up that this doesn’t make you arrogant and selfish.

In fact, reflecting on what’s amazing and awesome about you gives you a boost of self-love and self-esteem!

So many people, including me, spend too much time picking on our flaws and our worse qualities.

But when you really look at it, you have so many amazing qualities that outweigh the flaws.

So by remembering the amazing things about you, you can use those amazing qualities whenever you start thinking about your little mistakes and flaws. You’ll decide that’s just not worth picking on about.

4 – Set 15 mins a day for your passions
Some may say “But I don’t have time!!”

But hey, we can always set aside at least minimum 15 minutes. Even 5 minutes if we really want to motivate ourselves.

First, think about your passions. Think about a project that you’ve always wanted to work on. Think about something you’ve always wanted to do. Think about a goal or a dream that you want to work towards.

Set 15 minutes a day working on that to get closer to that goal/dream of yours.

Many people set goals and dreams and do nothing about it. When we do that, what’s that going to do with our self-love?

If we see ourselves not following through on our passions or goals we set, it’s going to remind us that we don’t follow through. So let’s follow through.

Even just 15 minutes a day can make a big difference if we put the consistency in.

5 – Every single day, make time for something fun no matter what
Thinking about it, we’ve been told way too many times to deprive yourself of fun, until all work has been completed.

When realistically, we should also prioritise the things we enjoy just as much.

Because here’s the thing, our life isn’t all about work, work, and work. It’s also about enjoying it too.

Even if it’s just watching your favourite TV show or going on a nature walk, making time for something you enjoy daily is a great way to do self-love.

Take a SMALL STEP

Here are some small steps you can take to start having a productive self-love week:

1. List down your self-love givers and drainers.
2. Write down your values
3. List down your non-negotiables
4. Write down an experience of a loss or a failure, and write about how that became a big life lesson.
5. List down 3 things you’ve outgrown and will now let go of in your life.
6. In your daily schedule, schedule these things:

• 5 minutes of gratitude
• 30 minutes minimum of exercise
• 5 minutes minimum reflecting how amazing you are
• 15 minutes minimum for working on your passions
• 30 minutes minimum doing something fun for yourself

Self-love isn’t just the affirmations

One thing I believed about self-love is that it’s mainly affirmations you say to yourself. However, as it turns out, there’s so much more that goes into self-love!

When having a productive self-love week, it’s all about the little things you do that make a difference. Just like with someone else, sometimes it’s the little things they do that matter the most.

Sometimes it’s actually knowing what you like, or listing down your amazing qualities. Small things count.

So let’s have a productive self-love week!

-Lauren 😊

P.S if you enjoyed this blog post, I think you’ll probably enjoy my book too, Small Steps to Progression! We literally just mentioned small steps a few seconds ago, so it felt relevant to mention it here 😂

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