Life Gets Harder - Will You Get Better?
I am a person who had spent a lot of my years on the planet seeking comfort. A lot of my life surrounded getting enough sleep. When I did not get enough sleep, I would be groggy, spicy, feel a little sad and melancholy and, worst of all, my mind would race.
When my mind raced, I would not have positive thoughts, but I Would continually spiraling downward negative thoughts.
About a week ago, I was given the opportunity to face my lack of sleep head and. My son was born, which means, he has a lot more control over my sleep schedule than I do.
Here is what I learned -
1. I will feel exhausted but I get to interpret what that means - I used to mean that I was not going to get something done and that I was not safe. The truth is that I have gotten stuff done while exhausted and I have never been attacked by wild bears while being exhausted, so I guess that it was not true that I was not safe. Now, I tell myself, that I am growing when I am exhausted and this is my way of getting better as I achieve my goals. It is sort of like the transformation of the butterfly. Before the butterfly emerges, there is an uncomfortable growth period. Now, when I am starting to feel tired, I get excited. It is all about interpretation and what yo make things mean.
Caterpillar becomes a butterfly -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpa_khU8JuY
2. Before I go to sleep and when I wake up, I run through an inventory of positive thoughts - This works wonders. I always thought that the mind racing was a bad thing. However, now I realize that my mind racing is only a bad thing if it races with bad thoughts. If it is racing with good thoughts, then there is nothing to worry about and I am actually getting better with my mind racing. I tell myself how great the next day is going to be or how much closer I am getting to my goals.
3. I feel good when I stretch - When I was exhausted in the past, my first priority used to be to take a nap. Now, my first priority is to make sure that my family is taken care of first. That will mean that sometimes I will not get a nap.
However, if I get more exhausted, that just means that I will grow.
The end result is that I have had more fun, more money deposited into my bank account, have had a ton of living and have spent an amazing amount of time with my newborn son and three year old daughter.
Before my son was born, I was very excited but thought that other things in my life (like earning money) would have to suffer for a little while. I was OK with that but I am actually getting more done, feeling more restful by making the simple change of reinterpreting the things in my life into positives and not into negatives.
Life becomes a lot more fun when I let it happen to me as opposed to having to control it.
I share this information not to brag about how well I am handling a situation, but to let those people who have the tendency to resist change, to look at their situation with a new set of eyes and a new agenda.
Make today a great day.
When my mind raced, I would not have positive thoughts, but I Would continually spiraling downward negative thoughts.
About a week ago, I was given the opportunity to face my lack of sleep head and. My son was born, which means, he has a lot more control over my sleep schedule than I do.
Here is what I learned -
1. I will feel exhausted but I get to interpret what that means - I used to mean that I was not going to get something done and that I was not safe. The truth is that I have gotten stuff done while exhausted and I have never been attacked by wild bears while being exhausted, so I guess that it was not true that I was not safe. Now, I tell myself, that I am growing when I am exhausted and this is my way of getting better as I achieve my goals. It is sort of like the transformation of the butterfly. Before the butterfly emerges, there is an uncomfortable growth period. Now, when I am starting to feel tired, I get excited. It is all about interpretation and what yo make things mean.
Caterpillar becomes a butterfly -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpa_khU8JuY
2. Before I go to sleep and when I wake up, I run through an inventory of positive thoughts - This works wonders. I always thought that the mind racing was a bad thing. However, now I realize that my mind racing is only a bad thing if it races with bad thoughts. If it is racing with good thoughts, then there is nothing to worry about and I am actually getting better with my mind racing. I tell myself how great the next day is going to be or how much closer I am getting to my goals.
3. I feel good when I stretch - When I was exhausted in the past, my first priority used to be to take a nap. Now, my first priority is to make sure that my family is taken care of first. That will mean that sometimes I will not get a nap.
However, if I get more exhausted, that just means that I will grow.
The end result is that I have had more fun, more money deposited into my bank account, have had a ton of living and have spent an amazing amount of time with my newborn son and three year old daughter.
Before my son was born, I was very excited but thought that other things in my life (like earning money) would have to suffer for a little while. I was OK with that but I am actually getting more done, feeling more restful by making the simple change of reinterpreting the things in my life into positives and not into negatives.
Life becomes a lot more fun when I let it happen to me as opposed to having to control it.
I share this information not to brag about how well I am handling a situation, but to let those people who have the tendency to resist change, to look at their situation with a new set of eyes and a new agenda.
Make today a great day.
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Sunny M -
Thanks
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