I feel like I need to wipe the slate clean and reinvent my life (dramatic eh?) I have real apathy going on here and am really trying to get my act together but don't know where to start. Any nuggets of wisdom to share? Give me something; a metaphoric kick up the bum, a new hobby suggestion, a suggestion for work, a topic to research? What gets YOU excited about life? At the moment I feel like I am going through the motions but not really living. I want to wake up in the morning and be excited for the day ahead.
Help yourself to a chocolate biscuit. I feel this could be a long chat across the table.
Go outside and observe and then, write about it. My problem is that I have TOO much that I want to write about but other things keep getting in my way of what I really want to do, to write.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your contribution Kay. Outside is pretty dismal today. Not many people around. Quiet. Nothingness. I'll make an attempt to get out next week to somewhere more interesting such as a market or a place of activity.
ReplyDeleteHi, Simone. Slumps like this happen to everyone. I know you'll get through this and find your way back. Sometimes you just need a change of pace. Do something you've never done before. Go somewhere new. It doesn't have to be dramatic, even small changes can make a big difference (I truly believe this, just as I said in my blog).
ReplyDeleteWishing you joy and clarity, my friend!
Thanks Anne. I went for a walk, browsed in a bookshop and bought a box of mint Lindt chocolate in the shop. The seller kept saying 'mint lindt' because she said she liked the sound of it! I've never bought chocolate in a bookshop before so that's a first! :)
DeleteI'm going through something similar at the moment Simone so don't feel I can be much help to you. I hope that something will inspire you, try to find something positive in each day and find beauty in small things. Write how you feel each day,good or bad, positive or negative and see if you can see a pattern in how and why you feel as you do. Small changes around the house, garden, reading matter, crafting or what food you eat may help and inspire you too. I know from your previous posts that you have been doing some of these things. Take carex
ReplyDeleteHi Rosie. I'm sorry to hear that you are going through something similar to me. I went for a walk today by myself and I found that helpful.x
DeleteHi Simone - I expect when you were working you could probably think of a thousand and one things you would rather be doing - I know I could. Perhaps now you have the days stretching before you maybe it is a bit overwhelming without the structure of work and now you could do anything you find it hard to be motivated into doing anything.
ReplyDeleteWhen I feel downhearted about life I often start by journalling my feelings - I just keep writing sometimes of everything I feel is wrong in my life until I exhaust what I have to say. It can be enlightening and throw up reasons and clues why I feel stuck.
Or I write a list of things I do want or want to do and look at why I am not doing them if they are so important to me. Sometimes I just feel so overwhelmed by things I have to do and things I want to do that I end up doing nothing and then I will try and organise my house in an attempt to organise my mind and thoughts - a good clean up inside and out does wonders for me to clear the slate.
Of course just 'being' can be good - like on a retreat - reading, walking, making a new recipe, writing to a friend, a bit of weeding outside - just little things that might get you started.
On the blogging front most successful blogs are quite often just a record of someones day to day life even if you feel there is not much happening people identify with the normality of this - like the washing machine broke and a man came to fix it or telling about a passage in a book you have just read.
I am sure the people that read your blog do so like me because they are interested in your life and what you are doing even if that is not very much.
I do hope you can find a way through this and I for one would love to see a blog post from you every day even if it just to tell us you went shopping.
The biscuits look yummy.Take care x
Hi Viv. Thanks for commenting. I'm off to bed soon so I will take a more in depth look at your comment tomorrow. I did go shopping today! I went for a walk and then to Holland and Barrett and then to Waterstones bookshop, Rather bizarrely they sold chocolate so I bought a box of mint flavoured Lindt!
DeleteIt's the time of year for new evening classes, how about trying something completely different..
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Thanks Vivienne. I am keeping a look out. I have a new project to get excited about too that came to me this morning so things are looking up. x
DeleteBefore I go to bed at night I list three things I am grateful for and three things I hope to accomplish the next day. Give it a try for a week and let me know if it helps. xo
ReplyDeleteHi Karen. I used to do the gratitude list religiously but became tired of doing so. I may give the three things to accomplish the next day a try though as it will give me something to focus on. x
ReplyDeleteAh ha! But...
ReplyDelete"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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