Handling Disappointment Like a Two-Year Old
I’m participating in the My 500 Words Challenge by Jeff Goins. This is the first post of 31.
http://www.wordcounter.net/ (pretty cool word counter if you’re interested)
- Day 1: 234 words
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Last year was rough for me. My freelance work plummeted as I fell ill both physically and mentally.
I let clients go, I neglected my website, and a number of other activities I do online to maintain clients projects aka earn money to pay bills.
Disappointment in myself and in my situation led to depression and YES, a huge pity party.
I’m thankful that I know myself well enough to stay off of the computer or the insanity that was me in 2014 would be forever etched on the interwebs.
What do you do when life, people, circumstances disappoint?
What would a Two-year old do?
Grieve.
Feel the pain of broken promises, missed moments, and painful experiences. Don’t stay there but experience it.
Once that is done build yourself up again. Not overnight in a superhuman kind of way but lovingly like you would your own child.
Slowly enter the world.
Surround yourself with positive people and thoughts.
Take the next step.
You don’t necessarily need to know where you are going just have faith that the next step is will lead you to the next and keep on “keeping on”.
How do you experience disappointment? I’d love to know any tips you have to positively handle these bumps in life’s journey.
I’m not sure my advice will help you. I practice gratitude. I try to be grateful for what I have. For example, yesterday I had a horrible day at work. After I got home, I said to myself “at least i have a job!” I thought of the things my job enables me to do. I thought about the fact that I have a decent manager ( I do,thank heavens!). And today I had a much better day. Without that support, though, I may have reacted a lot differently.
Alana, gratitude definitely goes a long way. It is all a matter of habit. I need to do that because I am definitely blessed with so much. Thank you for the reminder.