May is mental health awareness month and I want to talk about one key way to help your mental health. So, it's important for everybody to know and that's self-care. Prioritizing self-care. I watch leaders day in and day out sacrifice self-care for the goals of the company just to get things done to be more productive per se. And the reality is when you sacrifice your own self-care, you're less productive. and you're less likely to actually achieve your goals. Um, and I think most people know that and yet they still don't um, make a change about it. What are some of the reasons this is? Um, for example, is you're actually less productive because often people feel guilt and shame because they're not doing some of the same things um, to actually take care of themselves. So, they're not working out and so they're in their head about it during the day. Well, when you're in your head about it, your energy is distracted and diverted from the things that you are doing. So, that's one. If you just took the time that you're in your head about it to do it, you could probably spend half that time and work out or meal prep or whatever it is that self-care is to you. Um, and you would actually save time in your day. You get burnt out. You're tired, exhausted. You're not functioning at your full capacity. That is not productive. So self-care is critical to actually being the best version of yourself, producing the best work, and being the most productive. And yet, it's the thing that I will tell you leaders sacrifice first when it comes to time in their schedule. So, how are you going to prioritize self-care today? What are you going to do to take care of yourself? And by the way, be a role model for your team members because they often repeat what they see you doing. If they see you being a workaholic and not taking care of yourself, they feel like that's what they must do to be successful and to move up the ranks in the company. So when you show them that you prioritize it and how it makes you a better leader and a better person, then they too know that they can and they probably should model after you and prioritize it. It makes them better leaders for their teams. And it makes their team members better and more effective team members for your company. And overall, your company does better when you all prioritize self-care together. So again, what are you going to do today to prioritize self-care and what are you going to do to make it a priority for yourself in and out uh throughout the year?