Do you take time out at the end of each day to reflect on how your day progressed? To evaluate how you navigated through the day’s challenges, to celebrate your victories, acknowledge your challenges and learn your lessons.
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Are you waiting for someday to arrive where you finally have all the time in the world to live your dream life? Someday when the sun rises from the west, someday when I’m done with this project or Someday when my kids are off to school/college.
We all have our good days and our bad days! But do you often swing from one extreme to another that is extreme happiness and joy to complete sadness and depression rapidly? Then that can impact your regular day to day functioning severely.
You sat for hours thinking of worst case scenarios and then even worse scenarios only to realize nothing happened besides the hours you lost worrying, your vitals that shot through the roof as you sat there in panic, the hair fall thanks to the undue stress and maybe the demise of some well-manicured nails in the nail-biting clincher to nowhere.
Have you caught yourself blaming others, situations and circumstances, luck or fortune, for where you are in your life today? We play the victim card and sit on our hands, wondering why life is not turning out the way we hoped it would.
What Next? We’ve all been asked that question from our childhood. Finished schooling? What next? Finished college? What next? Got married? What Next? And with COVID that question has reached newer levels of annoyance as there really is no clarity on what next.
Confidence is not about genetics. It is a learned skill. However, we are raised to believe in everyone else but ourselves. And, this lack of self-belief comes in our way and makes it harder for us to do what we set out to achieve for ourselves.
Constant worry about health & safety, our job security, our lifestyles and wondering about what is going to happen next has incapacitated most of us from thinking clearly.
I remember asking this question to myself at many momentous occasions in the past – “Is this it?” Is this all there is to life? When routines plateau, and general discontentment sits in our hearts and minds, this is a common question we encounter.
Constant worry about health & safety, our job security, our lifestyles and wondering about what is going to happen next has incapacitated most of us from thinking clearly.
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