Languishing is very real. And the best place you can start from is to acknowledge it is.
You might not yet be able to get out of this state, this weird absence of mental health, but self-awareness is always the first step towards something better.
Doing (without interruption) and connecting (with the intent to share) are great second steps, whenever you are ready.
Feeling ineffective is very different from feeling worthless.
Being down is not the same as being miserable.
If someone irritates us, it’s not the same as if they would enrage us.
When we feel regret for a situation, that does not make the situation humiliating.
Language is made of shades. And when it comes to emotions, in particular, being able to verbalize the different levels of intensity can make the difference between seeing options and getting lost.
We can get better at expressing how we feel, and this vocabulary of emotions by Ed Batista is a fantastic tool for that.
How are you feeling today?
Don’t work for people you don’t want to become. (cit. Shane Parris)
Also, don’t date, don’t hang out with, don’t support people you don’t want to become. Those in our circles set the tone for the environment we live in. We have values and principles we aim to stick to, and we are better off when the people we invite on the journey aim to stick to them as well.
Find the examples, foster the relationships, and treasure the opportunities.
Those are the connections that make it all worth it.
Three questions to unlock learning.
When you do this regularly and consistently, no bad experience will stop you.
Rather than starting your next meeting with “I have heard”, “I have noticed”, “The numbers say that..”, try kicking off a conversation with the first question, and keep your mind open by supporting it with the other two.
People do not want to be told what they did wrong and what they should have done instead. People want to learn. Guide them in doing just that.
Changing the way you see the world is not a sign of weakness.
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