Just Keep Moving By Suzi Elton At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Do you feel burdened by so many problems that you are tempted to just give up? Does it seem that no matter what you do, you can't get some positive momentum going? Do you think that no matter what you do, nothing works? Do you wonder how to get your life turned around and going in the direction you want? Does it feel like you live in a pressure cooker and you can't get any relief from the stress? Are you sliding into depression and hopelessness?

There are times in life when the only answer is to just keep moving. What does this mean?

1.) It means that continuing to take action is the only answer. Make the decision that you aren't going to give up on your life--without a fight. During these kinds of times, this is the hardest choice of all...and the hardest one to continue to maintain decisiveness about. It is the key choice though that will do the most for turning your situation around.

2.) Get out a pen and paper and do some brainstorming about actions you could take. Write everything down...even the "crazy ideas". This is simply brainstorming--just writing it down is not yet a commitment.

3.) If you have some trusted friends who would be willing to brainstorm with you, that's even better...because you'd get some great ideas you might not think of alone. During this process, don't screen anything out.

4.) Now, take some time alone with your big fat juicy list and start to organize it for usefulness. You might have three columns, titled something like, "Definitely Do", "Pursue Maybe", and "Probably Not--Now". Categorize all the items on the list. List all the items in priority with the most important on top. When you're finished with this, you have a list with the most valuable, definite choices at the top of the left column, and the unrealistic definite no's at the bottom of the right column.

5.) Now, take everything in the, "Definitely Do" column and assign a date when you intend to take action on it. Now you have an action plan.

6.) Keep your action plan handy and use it to keep you focused on the actions you need to be taking.

7.) Add to the action plan as you go. Make it a living document.

8.) Whatever you do, don't allow yourself to fall into depression. If you do, you are lost. Yes, it is human to get low sometimes. The key though is to keep moving. If we become self indulgent about depression and "feeling sorry for ourselves", we will get stuck there...and solving our problems becomes impossible. You're probably thinking that it's not so easy to keep from being depressed. Experiment with continuing to take action no matter what you feel like. Just taking action itself will lessen depression or keep it at bay.

9.) Exercise is the best preventative for depression that there is. If you exercise on a regular basis--5-6 days a week--and you just make yourself exercise no matter how low you feel--the depression will lift and you will start to feel better.

The hardest thing to do and the best solution for overwhelming problems is to just keep moving and taking action to solve our problems.

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