I don't know about you, but I am usually under a great deal of stress.
It also seems the world around me is just becoming more difficult and life isn't getting any easier. I tend to let things bother me way too much, and I hate it, but that's also how I'm made.
I worry incessantly about everything.
Below is a list of ideas to assist in handling those hard times that come our way and I really need to focus on them more. I ran across this
site that has the best inspirational pieces.
So when times are tough or you're feeling stressed, think about this.. .. .
1) Happiness is never constant, and it’s not supposed to be.
– You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your
life. Happiness is simply a series of moments that come and go
and add sweetness to our lives. Learn to accept this, and the more
happy moments you will have.
2) Failures are temporary situations that teach us necessary lessons.
– Life’s best lessons are usually learned at the worst times and from
the worst mistakes. So yes, you will fail sometimes. The faster you
accept this, the faster you can get on with being brilliant. You’ll
never be 100% sure it will work, but you can always be 100% sure doing
nothing won’t work. Doing something and getting it wrong is at least
ten times more productive than doing nothing. So get out there and
try! Either you succeed or you learn a vital lesson. Win – Win.
3) Even if you can’t see it now, you are making progress.
– You may not be where you want to be yet, but if you think about it,
you’re no longer where you once were either. You have good reason to
believe that you can trust yourself going forward. Not because you’ve
always made the right choices, but because you survived the bad ones,
and taken small steps in the right direction. So cry for a moment if
you have to, and get it out of your system. Crying doesn’t indicate
that you’re weak; since birth, it has always been a sign that you’re
alive and full of potential. Once you’re done, keep going! You’re
undoubtedly getting closer to where you want to be.
4) How you feel when you’re stressed is not a true measure of reality.
– Just because you’re afraid, doesn’t mean you’re in danger. Just
because you feel alone, doesn’t mean nobody loves you. Just because you
think you might fail, doesn’t mean you will. Look beyond your doubts
and keep searching for the truth. Be aware of your mental self-talk.
We all talk silently to ourselves in our heads, but we aren’t always
conscious of what we’re saying or how it’s affecting us. The way to
overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop
opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful. Listen
to your self-talk and replace negative thoughts with positive ones.
The sun is always shining on some part of your life. Sometimes you just
have to forget how you feel, remember what you deserve, and keep pushing forward.
5) You cannot change what you refuse to confront. –
You can learn great things from your failures and mistakes when you
aren’t busy denying them. If you’ve been asking the same questions for
months or even years, yet are still stuck, it’s probably not that you
haven’t been given the answers, but that you don’t like the answers you
were given. It takes a lot of courage to admit that something needs to
change, and a lot more courage still, to accept the responsibility for
actually changing it. The most important step forward is taking the
first step. The simple act of getting started and doing something will
give you the momentum you need, and soon you’ll find yourself in a
positive spiral of positive changes – one building on the other.
6) You are not what happened to you in the past. – No
matter how chaotic the past has been, the future is a clean, fresh, wide
open slate. You are not your past habits. You are not your past
failures. You are not how others have at one time treated you. You are
only who you think you are right now in this moment. You are only what
you do right now in this moment.
7) Not getting what you want can be a blessing. – Not
getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of good luck,
because it forces you reevaluate things, opening new doors to
opportunities and information you would have otherwise overlooked.
Remember, some things in life fall apart so that better things can fall
together.
8) Being a ‘work in progress’ is a great state to be in.
– Stop berating yourself for being a work in progress. Start embracing
it! Because being a work in progress doesn’t mean you’re not good
enough today; it means you want a better tomorrow, and you wish to love
yourself completely, so you can live your life fully. It means you’re
determined to heal your heart, expand your mind and cultivate the gifts
you know you’re meant to share. May we all be works in progress
forever, and celebrate the fact that we are!
9) Nobody else can do it for you. – Keep doing what
you know in your heart is right for YOU. Let your dreams be bigger than
your fears and your actions louder than your words. Live by choice,
not by chance. Make changes, not excuses. Choose to listen to your inner voice, not the jumbled
opinions of everyone else. It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may
walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
10) Life is not easy, but it’s worth it. – If you
expect it to be, you will perpetually disappoint yourself. Achieving
anything worthwhile in life takes effort. So start every morning ready
to run farther than you did yesterday and fight harder than you ever
have before. Above all, make sure you properly align your efforts with
your goals. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it in the end.
by
Hermann Hesse – A powerful story about the importance of life
experiences as they relate to approaching an understanding of reality
and attaining enlightenment.
