What To Do Next When We're Feeling DISCOURAGED

What To Do Next When We're Feeling DISCOURAGED

Nothing earth-shaking to hear from you OR me that we're feeling discouraged.  Obviously, that's the roller-coaster reality of life.  BUT What To Do Next When We're Feeling DISCOURAGED?  Hey dude, everyone deals with discouragement at some point in our life.  That's part of WHAT makes the human experience rich enough, with all the HIGHs and the LOWs.  IF we never experience the LOWs, then we WON'T appreciate the HIGHs.  Discouragement, disappointment, failure and setbacks, these are all things that can help us if we maintain an empowering mindset.  The key to life is to learn from these experiences, and minimize the amount of time that we allow ourselves to stay discouraged.  The question we got to answer is, WHAT DO WE DO NEXT WHEN discouraged???

Culling from experts' advisories, they always ask us to TAKE THE LONG VIEW.  Discouragement generally occurs WHEN our expectations [WHAT we think we should happen] DON'T align with reality [WHAT actually happens].  In many cases, our expectations are unrealistic and this often has to do with HOW long we think things should ever happen, if at all💧💧💧

And how about FAILURE?  Fortunately, experts around counsel us that there is NO such thing called FAILURE.  Instead, they call that as EDUCATION.  Like WHEN we feel we have failed at something, discouragement comes close to the heels.  However, failure DOESN'T really exist EXCEPT for the meaning that we give it and for the weight we tend to amplify💥💥💥

WHAT comes next, let's stick to our guns, to our vision.  if we are feeling discouraged, think about your vision.  Think about WHAT we want to create in our life.  See it clearly.  Feel WHAT it would feel like IF the image came into reality.  WHAT would this mean for us?  How would we feel?  Once we see it, and feel it, we will also feel empowered and our discouragement will dissipate.  Over and above all these, let us NOT let our ego get in the way of our development.  Our ego is often the primary cause of our feelings of disappointment and discouragement.  It DOESN'T have to be this way😌😌😌

Our takeaway:  WHENEVER we feel discouraged, first things first, let's STOP comparing ourselves to others [because if we're drowning by then, we will get fatally drowned in a bit by then].  If there's a simple mantra for us to cultivate, it is the fact that each of us has its own unique path in life.  A sure-fire 100% guaranteed way to get discouraged is to focus on other people in a comparative way.  WHY?  It's because we will end up seeing WHAT they have and WHAT we DON'T have?  Bluntly, that will be the last nail on one's coffin, if I may say so!!!