Keeping Up with Life: Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Your Goals

 

Keeping up with life is hard especially when you are not in the spot you want to be. Mainly because when you are not it feels like you need to try your hardest to get there. Sometimes I tend to get stuck in these thoughts where I tell myself that I could be better than how I am right now and I go down a rabbit hole of more thoughts that enhance the boring or unsatisfying parts of my life. 

I feel that in order to not go down that rabbit hole I have to be in the mode of recovery. And by that, I mean getting into the starting line of becoming my best self, such as recovering from depression, anxiety, envy, and anger. Literally, anything you name it. And by recovering I don't mean I am in those stages right now I mean that I am recovering from the thoughts that those stages left me with. And I will be in a mode where I'll be working towards getting better. 

I have been through a lot since the start of my diagnosis but that diagnosis doesn't define me or who I will become in the future. And that goes for you too. In the past, while I was struggling I would think about my future and think the worst thoughts about it. I thought I wouldn't be able to graduate or get accepted to college because my Mental Health got in the way of me being able to see the success I hold. Your Mentality can push you back years into the past. With negative thoughts that never leave or just memories. And it won't let you see your future successes. What I want to tell you is that your future successes are waiting for you. You just need to get up and go towards the path to them. Walk towards your future successes! I know it might be hard to get up or even do anything but your successes will always be there you just need to get on the path.

To be honest I'm not going to act like I am a know-it and that I have everything figured out because I don't. You might relate if you are in college but I feel like I am in a stage where I have no drive. I just don't have the motivation to do my work sometimes but when I do I don't get that much work done because I get distracted. When this happens to me I usually force myself to do it but sometimes I don't because when I don't have the motivation to do anything sometimes it means I need to take a break. But not a break from everything just a slight break. I would do something fun that excites me so I can cool down my brain. And you can use this method too!

In closing, I feel like keeping up is a matter of knowing yourself and what you're comfortable with. If you can't handle too much stress maybe don't cram 5 assignments in one day. And if you feel like you need to cool down do something enjoyable for a couple of minutes before you start your work again. Just because you have a mental illness doesn't mean you are obligated to a life of constraint. You can do anything you put your mind to. 

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