{"id":5178,"date":"2014-01-18T17:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T22:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2014-01-15T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:17:48","slug":"i-love-me-tip-finish-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2014\/01\/i-love-me-tip-finish-one-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Love Me\u201d Tip: Finish One Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/files\/2012\/12\/Self-Love-logo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3701\" alt=\"Self-Love logo\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/91\/2012\/12\/Self-Love-logo-300x64.png\" width=\"484\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Today is Day 18 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com\/\">Self-Love Month<\/a><\/strong> with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining <a href=\"http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Self-Love Movement<\/strong><\/a>\u2122.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/files\/2014\/01\/SL-book_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5093\" alt=\"* SL book_cover\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/91\/2014\/01\/SL-book_cover-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>We often have little chores that we put off doing and not doing them is annoying. Finish one thing, however small, like cleaning out and organizing your socks to get a feeling of accomplishment. Sew on the button you\u2019ve been meaning to fix. Pay the bill sitting on your counter. Call the person who annoys you back and get it over with. It\u2019s usually a relief to get one thing that\u2019s been niggling at you done.<\/p>\n<p>When I look at a clean drawer I feel so good. I dance with delight when I do some laundry, since I hate doing it. Knowing you got something done can be a joy. Choose something small you\u2019ve been putting off and do it. Make yourself smile from the relief of a chore being done!<\/p>\n<p>*************<\/p>\n<p>Join <a href=\"http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Self-Love Movement\u2122!<\/strong><\/a> Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com\/the-pledge\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>31 Days of Self-Love Commitment<\/strong><\/a>&#8212;<strong>\u201cI commit to do my best to do something loving for myself, however big or small, for <strong><strong>the next 31 days<\/strong>.<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and get my book, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com\/the-book\" target=\"_blank\">How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways<\/a><\/strong> for free at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com\/\">http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com<\/a><\/strong>. Read my 2013 31 Days of Self-Love Posts <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2013\/02\/3961.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Self-Love Movement\u2122<\/strong><\/a>! on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheSelfLoveMovement\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Day 18 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement\u2122. We often have little chores that we put off doing and not doing them is annoying. Finish one thing, however small, like cleaning out and organizing your socks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice-people-can-finish-first","category-self-love-acceptance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;I Love Me\u201d Tip: Finish One Thing - Lessons from a Recovering Doormat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2014\/01\/i-love-me-tip-finish-one-thing.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;I Love Me\u201d Tip: Finish One Thing - Lessons from a Recovering Doormat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is Day 18 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement\u2122. 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