When I’m feeling less than optimistic this is the last place I want to be; on my optimistic blog.
I’ve been over my head with work and personal life. Not cool to do to myself. Today I’m blaming myself constructively. Problems seem pretty simple to fix from outside of the situation. Problem? Find it and fix it. Bam. Done! Nothing more. Unless you don’t really want to fix it…or you actually have not learned how to deal with intricate problems involving emotions. So, amongst my week of the walking dead (because that’s what I feel like) I have decided to sit down and work it out. Here’s my typical funk remover test:
- How do you feel?
- What is making you feel that way?
- How can you simplify, or completely remove, this feeling?
- How does the problem get solved?
In the grand scheme of things it’s pretty easy to lose the big picture of what you’re exactly doing and focus on the emotion currently. It’s not easy to retrain our minds but I believe it’s important when it comes to negative feelings and holding onto emotions.
Once I’ve got the big picture I can see the little emotions much clearer and realize they were never worth my time feeling. Back to the path, the journey, or whatever you personally call it.
It is not what is happening in my life that is the problem, it is how I am handling it that is the problem.
Find, fix, and don’t forget!
The Kind Gypsy 