The Struggle: A Day to Remember
I was having a conversation with a close friend of mine yesterday regarding a kind of “funk” that HE was in in his day to day life at this moment. I listened intently without interjection for around 10 mins and then took the stage. I myself have been going through a huge funk over the last couple of months as well. I described the analogy to my friend that what it sounded like to me is that both of us know ourselves well enough to know when something isn’t right. 1. If we do not want to get out of bed in the morning. 2. Loss of empathy or care in areas of life we typically are very passionate about. 3. Not feeling happiness in nearly anything we do. 4. Feeling worthless and invaluable because we know that there are a number of things that we need to straighten out. 5. Constant “head spinning” where we could not establish rational or coherent thoughts due to the things we are hyper focused on at the moment.
This led to the “I need to fix what’s wrong with me” discussion. I summed it up to my friend like this. “At this point in time both of us are more consumed by the thought of what is wrong with me and how do I fix where I’m screwing up rather than focusing on being disciplined about 1 thing we know we should be doing and focusing are exercising that every single day!
Analogy: We were focused on throwing our hands and arms out wide to stop the snow coming down in the onset of an avalanche.
My friend and I made a plan to be built upon. Step 1 is: wake up early every day (our time was 5:30) and go for a 20 minute walk or go do 20 mins cardio at the gym.
We have yet to decide step 2 however some ideas may be read 10 mins of a business book a night, or pack each meal for the following day before going to bed. I’m not sure what the next step will be but the thought process is:
1. There are a ton of things in our lives at the moment we are not in control of so if we control ourselves and fall back on our discipline we will be able to save the faltering airplane of our lives at the moment.
2. Make a plan and take action to get through these hard times!
Suicide prevention day was a couple of days ago and for those of you that have someone close to you that maybe has been “acting out” lately reach out to that person and in a gentle way let them know that you notice. “What’s going on with you? You seem a little off. Is there anything I can help with?”
9/11 anniversary today: never forget that 19 years ago 3,000 people went to work in the morning to never talk or see their loved ones again. EVERY DAY IS A GIFT..... MAKE SURE YOU USE IT
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