Messing up life - General Edition

Are you known as someone who's known as calm and collected in more than most of the situations? - "Everything sorted out in your life"

Are you someone who's known as strong and crazy to put everything on line and bet on your gut/luck?

Are you someone who's known as a diligent crook - showing up consistently in a weird manner all the time?

Someone who only knows work.. work.. work... until you burn out?

I believe that I have this image of myself in the heads of a lot of people. So, if you're one of them..

To start with... what does a sorted life look like?

1. Ambitious goals
2. Strong foundation 1 - habits
3. Strong foundation 2 - health, wealth and social life
4. Independently successful in navigating challenges or hurdles

I came with 3 of those 4 things before drastically changing my surroundings, people around me, lifestyle... and a lot of things - without a support system.

Recently when I observe and reflect back over the past two to three months, I have lost almost all 3 of them. Leaving myself with 0 of those things.

Eating habits spiraling down - lack of exercise or even enough physical movement - toxic spending habits towards unhealthy things (games, fast food, subscriptions, memberships...) - living life on a day to day and week to week basis (just getting through the day would mean success..) - refraining to get out and socialize....

I have been doing this stuff for a while now.

And is it bad? - Maybe. Maybe not. I haven't had a major issue take over things in my life so much so that I lost a reason to wake up.

So... it might be better than what it could have been in the worst of times...

The worst part about all this is... you know what needs to be done... what needs to be fixed and you don't want to.

Because something has eaten away your spirit and energy to rise up and do the menial tasks of the day, let alone fix and spiral back to where you started and exceling over it.

What did it take to reach to this point?

• Overwork or rather overcommitment
• Inability to communicate boundaries
• Inner/past demons taking over during crucial points in time
• Lack of any support system

So... what's the takeaway.

1. Start with the basics - habits - rushing won't do any good without a strong foundation.
2. Define and know your boundaries (or at least limits) - if you sleep 8 hours a night - committing to do 10 things in day is unrealistic.
3. Learn and have courage to communicate - if you want to say something but you can't - nothing's going to change.
4. Develop a self sufficing support system - or plan ahead of yourself - so that lack of support system doesn't let you fall apart in an instant.