I am back baby I am back
If you watched the video I did last time out about five days ago
you would have seen I was in a pretty bad spot I was feeling depressed
I was anxious in the mornings when I wake up I'll was very demotivated. I
really felt like I stuck a little rut and pretty much everything went
pear-shaped right. So I wanted to film a video on what steps I took. I documented
this process on my Instagram but I wanted to give a video for you guys of
what I actually did to start feeling better, feeling more engaged and
enthusiastic when I get up and start well just doing shit and feeling better.
Now one of the first things I did was get out in nature and just try and
absorb all the energy from the nature itself and there's science that proves this
really does help your mental health, your state of mind and it helps me really
collect my thoughts. I'm gonna go to this spot I know which overlooks the water
which I'll take you to while I go through this video. I think you're going
to appreciate that and that's something that certainly helps me so you can find
somewhere you can get outside and you got something... if you're lucky enough to
have something outside like I have, great. If not just getting outdoors and doing
something is also beneficial.
Another good thing about being out here - every single person that I've come
across has said good morning, open for conversation, everyone's super friendly.
It's just something about this environment of being out here. Look at
can start to see the view almost at where we're going to get to.
Just something about it that really lifts the mood. But yeah, next thing next
thing I did was I wanted to look at pinpointing where the feelings were
coming from and really isolate some practical things that I can put in place
to start feeling better. So why don't you head over to home Scott he'll take you
through the process. Thanks Scott so first thing we want to
do is grab our journal, piece of paper, pen, pad, whatever you want. Grab your tea
and some pens and get started. So first thing we want to do is pinpoint. Like my little
pin I'm drawing there, my little pin? So pinpoint what are the problems? What
are the things that.. how am I feeling? like what is the actual situation so for
me I was feeling demotivated, I was feeling anxious. Okay so the list listing
out those things. Once I did that I then looked at well what can I do? What is in
my control that I can take action on to change, to help, to get me out of this rut,
to get me out of this mood, to get this mindset switched, to flip the script. What
are the the list of things that I can do? And I then list those things out. I found
this process really helpful it enabled me to get what's going on inside my head
down onto paper and really get a visual a bird's-eye view of what is going on in
my head and what are some of the things that I can take action on now to change.
To start making me feel better, to start make me feel happier, start making me
feel more engaged, enthusiastic, motivated in my days when I wake up. So morning
routines and evening routines that was the next thing that I looked at. Now this
is really about gaining control of my day and not letting the day control me.
So you can put whatever you want in your morning routine you know really up to
you what are the key things that get you going?
Obviously exercise, a lot of mindset work. So yeah just getting it in check. Making
sure that you're getting the blood flowing, you get in the mindset going,
you're starting your day without any phone or blue screen anything like that
and finishing evenings just chilling calming down and really thinking about
the things that you're proud of, try and pinpoint a win from the day and really
when you're setting up your day really think about the things like choose the
mood. Right, choose the mood. Choose how you're going to feel. Choose the emotions
and the actions that you want rather than just aimlessly going around. This is
the hardest thing when you're stuck in a rut but you might start your morning
routine small and then build it up or if you like me I have one that I absolutely
love I just have to like do it. So I set alarm. I make sure wasn't anywhere near
me. I had it planned out very precisely. I made sure I laid everything out the
night before so there was no excuses, no obstacles. Just making it as easy as
possible to do. Bbut getting that morning routine
oh geez just that alone was, was one thing that really, really started
flipping the script on how I was feeling. Another one for me was just having a... was
breaking the pattern. And for me helping a boogie in the lounge room pumping the
tunes and just go I'm crazy, go nuts. Look like an absolute idiot but who gives a
shit. Something to break the pattern so if
you're sitting there thinking of all the negative thoughts and this one this one
this one and this one just break it with something crazy like start laughing
really loudly or scream out loud or just give it a
and start thinking of all the positive things and the positive reframe. And that
is something that can help if you do that periodically throughout the day
when you had those negative thoughts kicking in that was very, very helpful
for me as crazy as it sounds. Reconnecting with your goals and your
purpose like have two... For me I wrote down two big goals. Spider web! Two big goals and I
also had a goal that I wrote that was to do with the now. And really writing
out my purpose and my reason, my why. I'm here now actually let's give me a second.
Here! Yes, this is a spot. So really writing out my reasons and my why of why
I'm doing it. And just going through that and visualizing that, thinking about that
and really reconnecting with it. The whole reason why I do what I do and that
gives me motivation to want to get up. So whatever your goals are, if you don't
have any then just write a couple of goals. If you haven't got a vision or
anything like that I've got videos on that, I'll link here for you.
So really look to connect with the goal. A macro a couple of macros and the micro
right now and the reasons why you want to do those things. I like to have
reasons for myself and then have reasons for other people like my kids. Right, that
gives me huge motivation to go "hang on a second shit yeah my kids man like I can
I want to achieve these things I want to be a better version of myself I want to
feel happy I want to feel joyful not just for myself but because I want to be
a role model for other people and for my kids so I can so I can bring value to
people's lives" So for you try that as well that was super helpful. So I'm here
I'm gonna stop talking because I just wanted to show you something yep
man that's so good. So I'm just going to sit here for a bit and soak up this
beautiful river. Picturesque!