How to Keep Your Self Care Battery Charged (For Ambitious First Time Fathers With Side Hustles)
Understanding how to keep your self-care battery charged as a first-time father isn’t easy but critical to you and your family.
The excitement of a newborn is like nothing else you’ll ever experience. You want to be there for your child and the mother. At the same time, balance your drive to succeed in your work and side hustle.
Unfortunately, most people don’t understand this initially, and having a newborn at home becomes highly stressful for your life, health, and marriage.
Your new role in life will challenge you in ways you couldn’t anticipate.
- You can’t prepare for this role ahead of time.
- Stress on your mind and body will be unavoidable.
- You’ll be tested mentally, physically, and emotionally like never before.
- Fatigue and stress will compound into unsustainable pressure on your whole body.
You can healthily manage it all with the proper mindset and a few minor adjustments.
Here’s how, step by step:
Step 1: Prioritize your rest!
Whenever you can rest, do it! You’ll be glad you did later.
Take a nap. Go to bed a little earlier than you usually do. If you feel sluggish, scale back on your regular schedule. This phase of life won’t last forever, so give yourself some grace and rest.
Step 2: Give yourself permission for some mental breaks!
Many ambitious first-time fathers want to use their time away from their families to get caught up on their side hustle.
Cramming in more work. Staying up or getting up earlier than usual to get extra work in will eventually exhaust you and set you back.
Instead, be patient, give yourself some grace, and consider a small break from extra projects.
Do what you feel up to, but don’t push it. Your mind needs rest in this critical stage, just as much as you do physically.
Step 3: Give your ambition a break — remember this is just a phase!
You will not be running on fumes, suffering from lack of sleep, and getting training by fire for too long.
Eventually, the little one will sleep through the night, things will calm down, you’ll develop a rhythm, and you’ll have time for that side hustle again.
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