Things will work out.

Have you ever had one of those mornings where you wake up and you just say to yourself, screw this! I mean, you literally have no desire to be awake, or alive. Any thing that requires more than taking two steps you just don’t want to do. Eating doesn’t sound like fun, working out, hanging out, nothing, you want to do absoultely nothing.

I guess I pose this question to see hey, how do you get out of this? I am probably just going to walk you through my way of getting out of these funks. I mean, I have experienced a whole heck of a lot of them, I noticed them most on my mission, but now in the day to day life, I’ve begun to notice them again.

FIrst I think you need to examine the situation. What makes you feel this way? What has changed? I mean sometimes it is nothing more than you being sick and tired of being sick and tired. TIred of the hustle and bustle of life. Sometimes things haven’t played out like you wanted them. Some times you want a change of pace, or your body needs to regroup. But, other times, you just go into a rut and don’t get out. You take a day off and then you take three or four, or a week. You do the bare minimun to survive, and it is human nature to be lazy. So, now examine how did you get there and change what you can change.

Second, you need to change the way you look at it. Too often we see this as an eternal thing. We think hey that this one bad day, is a year long, and a week is like an eternity. So, relax, one bad day doesn’t mean your life sucks. It just means it is one 24 hour period. You are and can come out of this. So, don’t let it get to you, don’t get discouraged, don’t get down on yourself. Pick your head up and keep moving.

“Things will work out. Keep trying, keep believing, Things will work out.”- Gordon B. Hinckley

Third, make yourself work. Now, you are thinking, well that is the problem, I don’t want to. Too often we look at the day as wow, there is so much to do. Or, I just want this day to be over. Well, sitting and doing nothing won’t make it go any faster, and to be honest, it will probably make things go much slower. So, focus on what you are going to do this minute, okay and work little by little. Keep going and moving forward and low and behold, the day will end. Whether you do nothing or do a lot, the day will end. So, to help yourself feel better, do something, so you feel accomplished.

These are just a few ideas I have. I am sure everyone has their own way of getting over it and moving on. These are just a few of mine. I hope you enjoy them.