4 Principles for Dealing With the Bad Days
A reoccurring theme over the last few years is that the bad days come, regardless of place, mindset or wellbeing. If you can sustain a side hustle for a decent period of time, you’ll need a mechanism for dealing with the tough days. Here are a few ways to deal with them.
Accepting that pain is part of the equation
Pain features quite heavily in the making of most bad days yet the relationship most people have with pain is confusing
- Principle 1: Expect it to be hard
- For example, giving in to the pain and feeling completely vulnerable is the best way to find your way through life.
Understanding burnout and your triggers
Find out what your triggers are and look backward to avoid them
- Avoid idolizing people who have become uber-successful
- Don’t follow the rabbit hole of YouTubers’ yearly income report videos and spend too much time internalizing rather than living it
At the end of the page
The bad days will come
Acknowledging the good in the bad
Every experience, however bad it feels, can always be seen as progress.
- Bad is not as bad as it seems
- Sometimes, you just have to come out of the burnout hole
- Don’t pile on the pressure for no good reason and paralyze yourself.
You can feel the pain and find the good in it
After the rain, look for the sun
- It’s not about toxic positivity
- Just then, that moment when you have the hope that the sun is about to come out
- You look around and you say, you know what, things have been awful lately but, actually, here’s some good that has come out of it all