3 Powerful Ways To Uplift Yourself When You Hit A Low Point
In Life
Sometimes, Life Hits You Right In
The Face
Unless you live a
perfect life, sometimes, navigating through life is hard.
It happens to everyone — the rich or the poor,
the optimist or the pessimist, the good or the evil.
Life has its own way. Sometimes, it seems like all
your hopes and dreams are coming together while other times, life throws all
the bombs at the same time.
So what do you do when life shows no mercy at you?
You could do what most people do — You could blame and
complain. You could get frustrated and angry.
But then there are other options which are far
better.
1. Diversify Your Source
Of Fulfilment
People usually talk about the concept of
diversification in the investment world. They say you should not put all eggs
in one basket as it will make you dependent on one source for all your
investment returns.
The same principle applies to your life. You want
to diversify where you find fulfilment from.
I’m not saying you should distribute your focus to
multiple projects. What I am saying is you should set goals in many areas of
your life.
Don’t just depend on your career to make you feel
accomplished. Because many times, you will fail miserably. During those times,
you can drive fulfilment and self-esteem from other areas of your life such as
the progress in your health and fitness.
You can find meaning and progress in your career,
health, finances, relationships, hobbies, personal development, and so on.
When one area fails to give you fulfilment, others
will back you up.
And when every area seems to fall apart, start
with the basics which are:
·
Food
·
Movement
·
Sleep
·
Stress
If you keep these four activities healthy in your
life, it will become way easier for you to get back up.
The reason these four activities triumph every
other is that they will change the chemistry of your brain. You will feel
good, motivated, focused, and happier.
And that’s the starting point you need to change
your life.
2. Change Your
Environment
Your environment is number one predictor of your
habits, thoughts, and feelings.
While it’s not always possible to change your
environment, every person must experience a change in the environment at least
every few years.
By changing your environment you will:
·
Increase self-awareness
·
Gain clarity in life
·
Find new opportunities
·
Explore new
possibilities
·
Find people with
different perspectives who will challenge what you know and believe
·
Get out of a creativity
rut
·
Get better at
adaptation
·
Increase
self-confidence because of your improved ability to roll with the punches
If you can’t change your environment, then take
out time to travel.
Many people travel to gain more experiences, which
is great. But to take it to whole new level, let the new environment change
you. Observe and absorb your surroundings.
Ask yourself — what can I learn from
the culture? What new shift in mindset can I take away from this place?
With this new identity, you won’t live the same
life even in your old environment.
But what about the times when you can’t get into a
new environment?
The answer is simple — Eliminate. Eliminate.
Eliminate.
Take out the trash.
The trash could be junk stuff, junk food, junk people,
junk feelings, junk thoughts or junk
habits.
First, embrace the empty space you get once you
eliminate and then replace the space with a high-quality environment.
·
To find high-quality
people, become likable first.
·
To feel high-quality
vibes, stop negative thoughts.
·
To think high-quality
thoughts, learn to think better.
This new high-quality environment will force you
to raise your standards.
3. Use The
Hard Time
After doing everything you can, if you still can’t
overcome the tough times, you can take out the biggest weapon in your arsenal — your philosophy.
Nature shows us the rules. The sunset is followed
by the sunrise. The winter is followed by the spring.
Life runs in cycles and seasons. If your life is
at a low point today, it will not stay the same. Simply knowing this can give
you the strength to endure the pain.
In fact, don’t just endure the pain. Feel the
pain. Embrace the pain.
Why?
Because you only realize happiness compared to the
bad days you have.
If your life stays perfect, it would be boring and
you’ll hate it because of our tendency to adapt to a baseline level of
happiness. It’s called hedonic adaptation.
But I’m not just telling you to sit there and wait
for the magic to happen.
On top of using philosophy, express yourself
through your preferred method of creativity — writing, painting,
singing, dancing, speaking, playing and more.
The expression will heal the pain and give you the
push you need to get back up again.
And last, use the force of pain to shake up your
life. The force can either keep pushing you down or you can use it to create a
momentum in your life.
Every situation gives you an opportunity. The opportunity
could be to:
·
Train
your mind.
·
Learn a much-needed
lesson that will help you for a lifetime.
·
Help others so they
don’t make the same mistake you did.
·
Get away from something
so you can start the next chapter of your life.
Become a beginner again to get in a new personal
transformation cycle.
You can start by learning something new or you can
restart from scratch. Either way, you will experience a tremendous challenge
which will fuel your growth.
The life is your arena.
You will lose. You will get punched. You will drop
down. It’s inevitable.
After every hit, you can either give up or you can
learn from the experience to get up and try again.
If today, your life is in a good place, start by
diversifying your source of fulfilment.
If your life is downgrading, change your
environment as soon as you can.
If you’ve already hit the rock bottom, use the
hard time to start again.
It’s never too early or too late to design your
epic life. So, let’s start, shall we?
Prakhar Verma
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