So I have been in a funk lately… and why I choose to actively stop it!
Long time no see, humans of the world!
It has been quiet on my blog in the past couple of weeks which made me feel really bad. I absolutely enjoyed writing and was always really happy as soon as I had finished a post. Actually the same has been happening with my life. I neglected many positive activities because life is challenging me. Life is challenging me a LOT at the moment. So much, I could write a book series about what is going wrong and get Peter Jackson to make 10 movies about it. But first, why did I never write my thoughts down here?
Interestingly, I had so many ideas for blog posts but somehow I never managed to write one. Constantly procrastinating, feeling worse about it every time. The same goes for many of my other hobbies. Until I reached the point where I asked myself: “how can all my positive activities all of a sudden make me feel bad? This is not what I want!”. At this point, I realized that some of my old bad habits slowly crept back in my life. Like mentioned before, I could write forever about which bad things happened, but I am not going to. You know why? Read my tips about what is helping me to stop this vicious circle below
My current top 3 tips for getting back in my flow
1. Use my planner more and PLAN my positive activities. Challenge myself every week: can I manage to go running 3 times? Can I make 3 nice drawings?
2. Tony Robbins. You guys, I swear, this guy… he is amazing! He made me realize (again) how important it is, to know you are in control of your own life, even or especially during demanding times. Depressive symptoms include mentally repeatg over and over again, what is going wrong, what could go wrong and putting oneself in the position of a victim, which in turn will make you feel even worse. But I know very well, there are at least as many good things happening. It is all a matter of your mental focus.
3. Stop judging myself. Why does it make me a bad person if X, Y, Z happened? I don’t make mistake on purpose. I am not a bad person, because they happen. I am not worthy any less, because I gain 2kg. For every time, I told myself this was true, it will probably need 2 positive thoughts to make up for it. Eventually good and bad breaks even and make me feel good.
I hope this might help someone out there, even if it is just a little reminder of stuff you know too well. We lose our focus so fast. But we can chose to get it back on track!
Take care of yourself. Don’t depend on others to do the job for you
Chantal
