How to Navigate the Hiccups of Life
Even the best laid plans can swerve off-course
The following article offers a few suggestions for handling stress and anxiety when something - or someone - gets in the way of your dreams …
Recently, my husband and I took a road trip.
We’d been getting antsy and irritable in our daily routine and semi-seclusion, often wandering about the house with a glazed look in our eyes wondering what we should be doing, what still needed to be finished, and what our lives were really all about.
Okay, not all those thoughts are on the same level of consideration, but I think you get the drift. We were bored out of our minds.
Sure, we had plenty to do and lists a mile long of the usual tasks, chores, duties, and obligations for both our work and home projects. But we’d been staring at those same lists for weeks, crossing off a few finished items here and there, and adding more as the days went by.
We didn’t seem to be making any headway, because many of those tasks required a repeat performance, things like scheduling social media posts, cleaning up our websites, setting up marketing promotions, and writing more new, unique, interesting, hope-they’re-good-enough articles.
Day-in and day-out, we found ourselves caught in a mind-numbing repetition of life.
With fewer and fewer sparks of inspiration catching our attention, we were in limbo — and desperately searching for an exit door. The worst part? Even if there had been open windows of opportunity staring us in the face, our brains were just too muddled up to recognize their existence.
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