Tough day....week?
Do you ever have really TOUGH days or weeks? I am sure you do. Well I am just getting over both a tough day and week or make that weeks. Lots of new and different things going on in my personal and business lives that have thrown me for a loop. Not just one loop but a bunch of them.
So what do you do when you have these tough times? Do you have any secrets or things you do to keep you grounded? Well I do and thought I would share them here. First of all, when things are just tough and I am not sure what to do, I try to remember the time when things were going good. I try and "transport" myself back there mentally. No I am not much of a metaphysical guy. What I am talking about is trying to "pull myself up by my own bootstraps". You know the old saying about pulling yourself up by your own boot straps, right? Well this is the time to do it. You do it by dusting yourself off and reminding yourself where you came from; especially the good stuff.
Many times we forget about the good stuff when we are in a funk. The good stuff seems so far away. But really it is not. It is right where we left it, in our minds. So when times get tough, I try to remember the good stuff.
Secondly, I repeat a saying in my mind to keep myself out of the funk. This go around I have been repeating the phrase: "Just go to work." This has helped me tremendously when the life pressures are so great they make me want to run and escape. Sometimes it is good to escape (in a healthy way) but other times it is not. Right now it is not because my new and old clients are depending on me. I am putting in the extra time right now because after tomorrow, I get to escape as I am taking off about a week for a Christmas break. So right now it is "Just go to work" time.
Mind you I am a bit O C (obsessive compulsive) but have always known it. The repeating of my phrase is good to get me out of the funk I am in but can be bad if I cannot stop. This is the gray area I work in as you probably have your gray area.
The last thing I try and do is I try extra hard to put myself in the "other" person's shoes. When I get frustrated and beaten down, I tend to lash out at my family. This is not good for anyone as it just makes more problems. This time I am not lashing out as much (even though I am not perfect yet) but I am trying to catch my impulse to do it before I do it. Now I try and temporarily leave the situation until I cool down. Then I can talk with a level head and the other person doesn't feel my frustration quite as much.
So the moral of this post is the when times are challenging remember they will pass and blue skies will present themselves again. When you have hit the bottom, remember there is only one way to go.....UP!
Let's Get Started!
Jeff
So what do you do when you have these tough times? Do you have any secrets or things you do to keep you grounded? Well I do and thought I would share them here. First of all, when things are just tough and I am not sure what to do, I try to remember the time when things were going good. I try and "transport" myself back there mentally. No I am not much of a metaphysical guy. What I am talking about is trying to "pull myself up by my own bootstraps". You know the old saying about pulling yourself up by your own boot straps, right? Well this is the time to do it. You do it by dusting yourself off and reminding yourself where you came from; especially the good stuff.
Many times we forget about the good stuff when we are in a funk. The good stuff seems so far away. But really it is not. It is right where we left it, in our minds. So when times get tough, I try to remember the good stuff.
Secondly, I repeat a saying in my mind to keep myself out of the funk. This go around I have been repeating the phrase: "Just go to work." This has helped me tremendously when the life pressures are so great they make me want to run and escape. Sometimes it is good to escape (in a healthy way) but other times it is not. Right now it is not because my new and old clients are depending on me. I am putting in the extra time right now because after tomorrow, I get to escape as I am taking off about a week for a Christmas break. So right now it is "Just go to work" time.
Mind you I am a bit O C (obsessive compulsive) but have always known it. The repeating of my phrase is good to get me out of the funk I am in but can be bad if I cannot stop. This is the gray area I work in as you probably have your gray area.
The last thing I try and do is I try extra hard to put myself in the "other" person's shoes. When I get frustrated and beaten down, I tend to lash out at my family. This is not good for anyone as it just makes more problems. This time I am not lashing out as much (even though I am not perfect yet) but I am trying to catch my impulse to do it before I do it. Now I try and temporarily leave the situation until I cool down. Then I can talk with a level head and the other person doesn't feel my frustration quite as much.
So the moral of this post is the when times are challenging remember they will pass and blue skies will present themselves again. When you have hit the bottom, remember there is only one way to go.....UP!
Let's Get Started!
Jeff
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