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What do you do when you wake up one morning and realize that despite all of your efforts, you still aren’t where you want to be in your life?
It’s not even like anything major is wrong. Nope. More that nothing is great. Things are kind of “meh.” Just moving along. Mediocre. Not exactly awesome.
First, recognize it for what it is. Temporary.
This, too, shall pass. This sense of ennui is just a place you are passing through on your journey to something greater.
Then tread water.
Just get through your day or week or even month.
Many times when we find ourselves in this place it’s because certain things or people have been demanding our attention. Perhaps work has been crazy. Or maybe you’ve been nursing a family member with the flu. Or whatever.
Something other than pursuing your wildest dreams has been sucking up your time. And that’s OK. It happens. That’s the point when we should give ourselves a break and tread water.
In fact, this is the place where I’ve been over the last couple of weeks. A very busy phase at work seems to have consumed my life. At times it left me asking myself if maybe I shouldn’t just give up and forget about my dreams. Just focus on the work I’m paid to do and forget about all of the other stuff. But then I realized that was the busyness and the exhaustion speaking. Not the real me. That I just needed to tread water for a bit and all of my inspiration would eventually come flooding back when my world evened out a bit again. It seems I’m seeing a glimmer of that hope again today.
I’ve talked about treading water before. How it’s better than crumbling and falling into a ball on the floor. And how sometimes it’s the thing that gets you from point A to point B.
So when you wake up on that one very not special day and feel like your life in all areas has come to a screeching halt, give yourself permission to just tread water for a bit.