Yesterday, I talked about this weird, kind of hodgepodged together project that I’m trying to pivot.
And I guess I just thought I’d talk about a takeaway I have from this version.
Basically, I said when I started this that there was a thing about my life I wasn’t happy with. I was getting distracted by it, getting in my own head, un-connecting from people, etc.
And if there’s one thing I feel like I’ve potentially learned, it’s that yes, sure, attitude is a lot of how you view the world. And it absolutely WILL help things.
BUT if there’s a main part of your life you’re REAAAAAALLY unhappy with – if you loathe your job, or if you can’t stand your living situation, or whatever it might be in life that’s driving you mad… if it’s something you deal with every single (or nearly every) day, and you hate it – you gotta change it.
You can change the things around it all you want. You can work out more. You can work on your hobbies. You can try to keep connecting with people and pushing it out of your mind. But it just won’t go away.
Trying to manage ‘symptoms’ doesn’t help a ‘disease’ or ‘tumor’ or whatever in your life. So, if something is taking your life force – if you can, you have to fix that.
And I know sometimes you can’t, because you need money or what have you. And maybe you’re better about dividing your life than I am, and truly leaving whatever is bugging you at wherever that is [so if it’s work, not thinking about it outside of work; if it’s home, not thinking about it outside of home, etc.].
But for me, I’ve learned that while managing symptoms might help somewhat, you gotta deal with what you’ve gotta deal with when/if you can.
I mentioned yesterday I wasn’t able to retain things and I’d talk about it more today. And I don’t have some brilliant deep dive. It’s just that if I’m distracted by a problem in my life, I stay a little distracted. That’s at least part of why I wasn’t retaining things.
So, yeah, that’s my main takeaway from this project, I suppose – you can run from your problems, but you can’t hide from them.
(I have no idea if any of that makes sense, but hopefully it does, at least a little!)