You know that point you hit when everything just seems to implode on you and you can’t keep up with it all?
Yeah, that was me not too long ago.
I had a life to juggle, a business to grow, completely new skills to learn, bills to pay, and a routine to keep up with.
But I hit a point where I simply checked out. I didn’t know what was wrong with me and I wasn’t sure I was ready to work through all the emotional mess.
Depression and anxiety crept in after, for the most part, being able to keep busy and keep it at bay.
If there’s one thing I want to say it’s this: Building a business, but not just any business, but a business doing what you love takes guts. But more than that it takes a LOT OF WORK. Going after your dreams takes more wind out of you than you’ll ever realize at first.
I was overwhelmed, overworked, unorganized, and drowning in simply too much to do.
Sometimes depression happens in layers depending on what thoughts you’re entertaining.
Little by little, those thoughts add layers, and then before you know it, those layers add up and start weighing heavily on you. Before you know it, you’re laying in bed, unable to get up, wondering why you feel so depressed, since yesterday’s and the day before’s and the week before’s thoughts were have since been easily forgotten, even though they are playing an active part of how you feel now.
Don’t make things harder on yourself. The only costant thing in life is change.
But too often while everything around us changes CONSTANTLY, our thoughts are still circling around the same memories, feelings, and what if situations we still wish we could change.
This creates a lot of mental suffering, because you’re mentally stuck in the past and your present is completely different and needs a different and more present version of you. But you’re not there. It’s dissonance.
This is one of a lot of little ways we make our life harder without it needing to be. We all know our best life starts within us, our minds. Yet our thoughts and emotions can be so HARD to change (though not impossible!)
A printable planner I designed My way just for MYSELF helped me work through all of that. Because it takes me out of my head and into the paper, and it helps me engage with what’s going on right now and what needs to happen to move forward.
For me, my planner is a tool. An armor of sorts. I wish it was something I would have discovered before starting this whole business journey, but fortunately I discovered it and I created it as I went.
And it changes as I change. I add pages I think will help and get rid of the old. It’s NEVER a stagnant thing.