Before takeoff flight attendants deliver the same reminder: put your own oxygen mask on before helping others.

It's strange when you think about it. Shouldn't that be automatic? Hey, I can't breathe — better fix that. And yet we need the reminder. Every flight. Every time.

So here's my question for you, in your own flight around the sun:

Where are you not putting your oxygen mask on first?

Sit with that for a second. What's the first thing that comes to mind?

Now, let me ask you — why? Why do you keep letting others take your oxygen — sacrificing, shrinking, settling? Whose purpose is that serving?

Because it's not yours - If you can't breathe, what good are you to anyone else?

I think about this a lot in my own life — the ways I've handed my oxygen to arbitrary deadlines, letting other people's priorities overshadow mine, chasing a version of "success" that wasn't sustainable or fulfilling, and waiting to "earn" fun or rest.

The thing is, these things don't show up like a lack of oxygen does — they drain away our time and energy more slowly. It's not necessarily that we don't recognize these things — we just let things slip over time, and we keep adding things without evaluating what needs to be cleaned out, losing sight of what's important.

And we don't realize there is a problem until we are forced to. But when you structure your days around YOU, it's easier to recognize when you are losing oxygen.

A YOU first approach doesn't come from fleeting reminders or when things fall apart — it comes from building it into how you structure your days so putting yourself first stops being something you have to remember.

That's exactly what I built inside → the YOU(niverse).​

The Bottom Line = You don't need another reminder to put yourself first — you need a structure that does it for you automatically. That's what's waiting for you inside YOU(niverse).