Today is a new day!

Don’t you just love how each morning, even on the days that it is difficult to get yourself out of the nice cosy blankets – it is a chance to start fresh?

It’s one of my most favourite bits about life.  One day everything can be going to crap, you go to sleep – wake up, and tackle things with a fresh mind and a new perspective – and (well… the plan is… ) it works!

Of course it doesn’t always just ‘work’, but there are a few things that you can do to help the process.  Here are some things that I do – let me know what it is that helps you to make the most out of each day!

1) Change my mindset.  This is usually the biggest issue for me.  If something is looking too big, sometimes too big that I don’t even want to start tackling it – I try changing the way I am looking at it.  If it is something scary, that is making me feel anxious, I tell myself that the same physical response  that my body has to a fear stimulus, is exactly the same physical response that happens when I am excited.  Tell my brain that what I am feeling is excitement – and the brain kicks in.

2) Write notes, masses of them.  I am a bit messy that way.  I don’t write on paper a lot, but i usually have a text doc open to just blurt stuff on.  If I am feeling particularly overwhelmed, I find it useful to take 10 minutes out – and write a list, so that I can get that ‘woohoo’ feeling when I get to cross something off as done.

3) Prioritise what is important, and what probably doesn’t need stressing about right now.  Some things just aren’t worth the brain space – including some people (arrg… not meaning to be nasty there… ).  If someone, or some thing is draining your energy – try and limit your time doing that or being around that, until you are mentally stronger to deal with it.  Obviously, if it is your kids who are driving you nuts… you just have to suck it up, princess!  haha.  I am more talking about relationships – it’s ok to draw the line on a emotion-sucking one way super needy relationship, you don’t have to be mean about it, but I have found that making the boundaries clear cut has saved my sanity many times.

So.. there are plenty of other things that we probably all do subconsciously to be the kick ass people we (YOU!) are – but I just wanted to jot a few of them down while I thought of them.

Feel free to share any that you think I could benefit from – that work for you, or that other people might want to – or could learn from too!

Have an awesome day!
- Cindy