…. When you don’t want to do anything?
I sometimes get this feeling where I don’t want to do anything. I don’t want to go to work. I don’t want to go out. I don’t want to talk to anybody. I don’t even really want to get out of bed. Sometimes I even just sit there and cry, and most of the time I don’t even know why. Now, I’m pretty in tune with my body and I know when this is just a ‘female’ time and I’ve fully come to expect that once a month my mood will drop somewhat, and I just have to roll with that, and that’s OK.
But the times when I can’t put two and two together, and it doesn’t make sense for me to feel this way… what do I do to ‘snap out of it’?
FIRSTLY: I am kind to myself. I know this is a blip. I know that I’m strong and that I’ve gone through so much just to be here today that I’m not about to give that all up by shutting down and quitting on my dreams. If I feel like crying, I cry. If I feel like eating chocolate, I eat chocolate. This isn’t a state of mind that is going to last forever, so I am kind to myself and I let it happen.
SECONDLY: I talk it out. (After a few days of eating chocolate and crying, maybe.) And I don’t just rant and moan to the first person that comes along. I’m very careful who I talk things through with. I don’t want to moan about life just to have the other person agree with me. That makes me feel even worse!
Well then what IS the point in pursuing what I love in life if it’s all hopeless in the end anyway!?
No, no, no. I pick very carefully and bend the ear of someone who is going to kick me up the butt and help me figure out what my next step is. I’m lucky I have friends like this who will list different parts of my life, and together we’ll figure out what I’m unhappy about.
THIRDLY: I make a plan. I write this plan down. I put it up on my pinboard/dreamboard. I try and break it up into achievable steps. I put it somewhere that I can see it!
And I take action
