3 Questions To Ask Yourself When You Are Feeling Down

If you've been feeling down for any length of time, you may have noticed that you ask the question "Why" alot. 

"Why does this always happen to me?"

"Why can't I be as successful as the rest of my family?"

"Why does all the responsibility always fall to me?"

"Why can't I just be happy?"

Sound familiar?

These questions will only serve to keep you stuck, starting to spiral further downwards and in some cases move towards resentment.

Another characteristic when you are feeling low is to often spend too much time looking back, feeling helpless & hopeless about the future.
 
 To counter this, a good first step is to acknowledge a minimum of 3 ways of how you want your life to look.
 
The important factor here, is that it is not what you don't want in it, but rather a more positive expression of what you do want and how you want it.
 
So, if tonight, you're feeling low, have the Sunday blues or lockdown has you wanting to retreat & hibernate for whatever reason, get out a pen and paper and start thinking of your future.
 
Regardless of what is happening right now.

Create a vision based on these 3 key questions:

1. What do you want your life to look like? Describe what you see, how you are dressed, etc.
2. Who do you want in it? Be honest with yourself here, if you are thinking about an ex, rather focus on the characteristics of that person that you enjoyed and would like to attract instead.
3. How do you want life to be for you? Describe your lifestyle, how you are feeling, what you are doing day to day and in free time, what holiday's do you go on, etc.
    

The task is to focus on the outcome, not how you will get there, as that won't serve you right now. All you want is a big picture view from which to feel a sense of hope and thereafter decide on one action step to take.
 
What we do today affects tomorrow.

Start with a dream today and conquer tomorrow when it arrives.

Until Next Time, Take Care,