Having a promotion dangled in front of your eager self is taunting, it’s torturous in ways that feed on your mental health because you’re waiting for the words to be said aloud, except the words continue to not exist in the oral world yet. However, why must we wait for someone to come along and give us what we want? Why don’t we take that into our own hands and make such things possible?
We must take control over it instead of letting it control us. This is where New Year Resolution’s come into play because we set the rules, we set a deadline, we set the stakes. And we make it happen. Give yourself that promotion and that hungry vicious feeding mouth on your mental health will stop feasting.
Instead, building blocks will begin to construct themselves into nourishing back your mental health as well as your well-being. We look after us, we can’t expect others to look after us because that’s selfish. Everyone needs to look after the one person in their life that is important, themselves.
The art of the journal
As someone who deals with anxiety and depression, I have found that journaling helps you keep a steady mind about the things in life. The good and the bad. Writing it down helps. I know people laugh at the idea because it’s just words on a page, but you’d be surprised how much weight lifts off your shoulders when you do write it out.
Words tend to get jumbled up when they’re swirling around your mind and not a lot makes sense. On paper it does. Writing down dates and what happened on that specific date can be compared to your later pages when you’re in a steadier place. There is no better feeling than looking at your journal and thinking, “Wow, I was in a bad place then, but after doing something about it, I feel much better.”That’s the art. It’s your book. It’s your instruction manual to look back on to fix things when they feel like they’re breaking.
Set a goal for you and you only
This doesn’t necessarily have to be set in the new year, but it’s tradition and the new year resembles a new beginning, a new start. Set your goal. For you. Set it under your terms and conditions and never under anyone’s influence because you’re doing this for yourself. Not them.
Start a new sport, practice a new hobby; you have a world of possibilities and opportunities to choose from as long as it’s your choice. Once, I was friends with someone who tried to force me into the business field of studying because it would “get me places”.
I liked Business in school, but it wasn’t something I am passionate about in my adult life. I wanted to be a writer. An author. And I stuck with my goal, not someone else’s recommendation. Once you master that art of setting your goal and sticking to your goal and finally, achieving that goal; you’ll find it is the most rewarding thing. A reward that happened because of you.
The lesson of kindness
Christmas is over, but winter also brings a lot of families despair, death and money loss. I have heard many a horror story about family members suffering a loss the day before Christmas; my family being in that boat or people not having enough money after the Christmas season because of wanting to give their children the toys they wanted, but secretly couldn’t afford.
It doesn’t cost anything to be there for those you know and don’t know, to be there as a support through a dark time. I know someone who is so close to me, but who is so afraid to speak out when they’re upset over something, and it is so important that we break that stigma.
That we offer them an ear when they need it. A big part of the promotion of one’s well-being is that they like the person that they are. Feeling like you are a good person doesn’t have to be an arrogant thing, but it is a genuine feeling that we must embrace.
