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How To Go From Down To Up, Fast

Written by: Laura Posey

Article Overview: Yesterday was not one of my better days. Despite starting off the year full of excitement and hope, yesterday I was really down in the dumps. For starters, I caught a cold and didn’t have much energy. Everything on my to do list looked like moving a mountain and I just wasn’t up to doing a thing. That useless feeling somehow went from being a momentary feeling to escalating into the entire year being a mess.

How To Go From Down To Up, Fast

Yesterday was not one of my better days. Despite starting off the year full of excitement and hope, yesterday I was really down in the dumps. For starters, I caught a cold and didn’t have much energy.

Everything on my to do list looked like moving a mountain and I just wasn’t up to doing a thing. That useless feeling somehow went from being a momentary feeling to escalating into the entire year being a mess.

Do you ever get that “What am I doing with my life feeling?” That’s where I was.

Luckily, I have some strategies for turning it around. If you ever get in that down in the dumps mood, I hope these will help you get out fast.

Remind yourself that it is only a feeling

Every feeling is just a bunch of chemicals in your body mixed up in a certain way. Joy is one chemical cocktail, fear, another and so on. Even feeling poopy is just a bunch of chemicals that can be changed quickly.

Find a starting point for happiness

To change your chemical cocktail is a easy as changing your current thoughts. Find something in your world, past or present, that makes you happy. For me yesterday, I had to think back to all the great things I’ve done in the past and how many clients have thanked me for helping them. Replaying some old movies of my life in my head got the happy chemicals flowing again. Making of list of things that you like about right now can help also. Even something as silly as “I like the wallpaper on my computer screen” can start the process.

Change the scenery

Another thing that helps a lot is to get out of wherever you are and go someplace nice. Take a walk, go to lunch, call a friend to meet at the mall, or just go home and hug your kids. By changing what you look at and adding an environment that stimulates you, you start the chemical remix that will have you feeling better.

Do one thing

If all else fails, I resort to this last tactic. It requires force and I don’t like it but it works. I literally make myself do one thing that could prevent my worst-case scenario from happening. Sometimes it is making a phone to a client and reminding them of a product they haven’t bought. Other times it is sending an email with the same purpose. Still other times it is reaching out to a colleague and asking if they might remember to send a referral if they think of it. By doing that one thing, I feel like I’ve accomplished something and it unsticks me enough to do one of the other things mentioned above.

I’m happy to report that changing my scenery worked wonders for me yesterday. I took a trip to the aquarium and watched the lovely fish swim around. Afterwards, I felt refreshed and ready to tackle some work, even though the cold was still clogging up my head.

What sort of strategies work for you? I’d love to have your comments here so others who read this article can learn from you (and you, from them).

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