Jay-Z Wants You To Put Yourself First

You can’t take care of others if you don’t care for yourself

“God I work hard, please don’t envy me

I paid the cost to be the boss to floss this hard” — Jay-Z, “Come And Get Me”

What’s good, everyone? We’ve got another edition of ya’ favorite weekly column with the homies here at Medium, “What Would Hov Do?”

Each week, you send me questions on life, love, or whatever’s on your mind. And every week, I sift through them with the help of lyrics from the big homie. My column is literally the embodiment of the phrase,“Hov did that, so hopefully you wouldn’t have to go through that.”

If you’ve got an issue that you think you can solve with a little boost from myself and Jiggaman, drop your question here on the low low — nobody gon’ know it was you, promise.

This week, we’ve got a question from “I Wanna Be Selfish:”

“I’ve recently been struggling with putting myself first. My whole life I’ve put everyone before me. I would like advice on how I can learn to put myself first — I feel like I won’t achieve my goals if I continue like this.”

When I’m on a flight (or when we all used to all be on flights. Remember those? Good times.) I love listening to the flight attendants…