Welcome to November’s post. You’ve been working hard to achieve those goals. This month, let’s take a moment to relax, take a count of your blessings.
Many people know they have 24 hours per day, but not too many realize it also limits their energy. You have a limited amount of gas in the tank for each day – and you need to be careful about how you use that fuel.
You can invest your energy in accepting yourself, crafting solutions, and self-improvement. You can also waste it on negative thoughts, anxiety about the future, and self-destructive attitudes.
To ease your mind and get the most out of your daily energy, follow these five tips below:
- Accept your situation
Never dwell on a problem for too long. If you can fix the issue, you do so on the spot. If you can’t change your current situation, you’ll simply accept it and move on.
As you know, there’s a certain amount of energy you have per day – and a common way people waste it is by dwelling on things they cannot change. You might think you’re lying on your bed doing nothing, but you’re filling your mind with negative emotions and wasting your energy away.
There are countless things you cannot fix -there are also plenty of issues you can solve. It’s always better to fix what you can than to dwell on the impossible.
- Focus on solutions
For things you can change, it’s all about action.
When something bad happens, you can curse and scream about your luck – or you can treat it as a possibility for improvement. There are obstacles in life, there always will be. It’s up to you to dwell on the issue or the solution.
Let’s say you have to go to work tomorrow and you are feeling anxious about that. It could be for many reasons, like disliking your job. You can burn out doing nothing but feeling sorry for yourself or you can sit down, update your resume, and get that job interview you want so much.
If you can’t change the situation, you must accept it until you can change it. If (and when) you can change it, ask yourself: “how can I make this better?” and do it without hesitation.
- Focus on letting go of the past
It’s bedtime. You lay down on your bed and close your eyes. Suddenly, that silly thing you did three years ago hits you out of nowhere. You’re still clinging to the past! And guess what? Doing so will not help you at all.
Your past is there to elevate you, not to torment you. Everyone makes mistakes – and many of us will continue to do so! But as long as you can grow from your mistakes, you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Once you missed an important deadline, you’ll be on time for the rest of your life. Missing out one time is a small price to pay to be on time for the many opportunities to come!
- Do something fun
There will be times when you will need to remove yourself from a situation entirely. It might be a bad day or a terrible week – awful months are not unheard of either! To fix situations like these, you need to hit the reset button.
The only way to do so is to have fun. Going to the bar with friends, playing video games, whatever it is, you need to keep it light and fun. Then and only then, you’ll be ready to kill it at work.
Cars go to gas stations to get more fuel; humans sleep to get energy. Cars need routine work every once in a while to keep things in check; humans need to have fun to stay sharp!
- Focus on relaxation
If you think you’re not tense, then check again: unclench your jaw, drop your shoulders, and stop breathing shallowly. We’re constantly stressed and we don’t even know it!
Fortunately for you, as long as you pay attention to your body, you will know when stress is creeping up on you. And that’s when you have to focus on your breathing. Breathe deep into your stomach and feel how tensions escape your body.
A tense body is an anxious body – and when anxiety takes over, it’s hard to get anything done. Breathing is the way out of that terrible state!
Conclusion
How you handle your situation depends on how you interpret it.
If you focus on things you cannot change, everything will seem impossible. If you work with what you can change, the progress itself will be motivation enough to keep going! When things get rough, you can always have fun and get back to a relaxed state.
Remember: a tense body moves half as fast as a relaxed one – and you are one deep breath away from relaxation.
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