Life Sucks
Do you feel like you are going round in circles, doing the same thing, without passion or drive. Pleasing others before yourself. Sometimes feeling ‘is life really worth living’, or ‘is this it’! Often at this time of year many people reflect on the previous year and think about what they want for the year to come. Perhaps now is the time to identify the route of your underlying feelings.
Try asking yourself what specifically you are unhappy with?
Your relationship with your partner
Your financial situation
Your body
Your health
A current situation
Work / job
Challenges with Children or dependents
Very often we undertake our lives on autopilot, without stopping to ask ourselves whether we are happy, or really thinking about what we are unhappy with.
Make some time for yourself, writing can be a great tool to uncover or connect with deep routed unhappiness. Talking to someone you trust, or investing in coaching, counselling or another therapy.
It is important to try to identify, acknowledge and accept what may be bothering you. What you may find when you are trying to avoid an issue is that it will keep rearing its ugly head, until you confront it head on!
Make 2016 your year.
So, did you think I was going to talk about how this might affect someone else?
But, what about how it affects you, inside?
Please remember, there are times when everyone is unavoidably late, and I am not talking about those times. I want to address the issue of bad time management!
Bad time management has a detrimental affect on our health:
Feelings of:
Guilt
Shame
Anxiety
Which can lead to:
Stress on our minds and bodies
Elevated blood-pressure
Stomach upset
Migraine
These types of feelings and symptoms can manifest themselves in different ways.
If you are someone who struggles with managing your time effectively and feel that you do suffer with the above on a regular basis ,here are some ideas which may help:
Don’t squeeze in that ‘extra’ job off your list, reassign it to a different place and where you have more time.
Allow more time than you need to.
Don’t schedule appointments back to back.
Be realistic in your planning
Plan some flexible time into your day
Get some help, and ask for help when you need it
Coaching can be a great tool for looking at time management
Remember:
You are a human being – not a human doing…
I couldn’t not write about this, and feel it should be on everyone’s agenda, every day, as many people grow older they become more intense and often stuck in their ways.
When we look at children they live in the present, generally happy and laughing, and when they experience upset, they move on really quickly.
As we grow older the ability to 'move on quickly' becomes less and we begin to become more bogged down with life's challenges.
This can, in time, seriously affect our health.Worry,fear and anxiety all lead to stress which is not how we are meant to be living our lives. My suggestion is live life to the full and take on board some of my top tips to help you 'loosen up'.
Top Tips
Make time to have more fun
Spend more time with family and friends
Go to bed early
Have a lay-in
Spend more time outside in the fresh air
Keep a sense of humour with you
Be more flexible
Try to look at things from another’s perspective
Find ways to relax
Regularly remind yourself of what's really important and finally give yourself regular healthy meals,exercise your body and be kind to yourself!