About 50% of mornings I wake up depressed, hopeless, and regretting that I woke up at all.
Why would that be? Because my view of my life is stuck in a particular vantage point, you could call negative.
And those mornings, with the exception of a few, I look around for ways to unstuck myself. Not because I believe I can… but because I learned to do that.
This morning I read the Monday Morning Memo… and was inspired to write my own based on the same general idea.
I had no idea that I can do it, I had no idea if it would take me anywhere: I had the flexibility to do it.
Did I know it was going to unstuck me? Not really. And it did…
Something similar I do every morning. Sometimes I have to do it over and over and over, sometimes I get swept away by the joy of expressing myself…
And rarely, nowadays, I indulge my hopelessness for a day or two.
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