Here’s a novel thought – instead of making everything so hard on yourself – why don’t you make it easier?
Rather than beating yourself up or putting yourself down, why not focus on your strengths instead?
Here’s what I’ve learned (am learning) the very hard way – you can force yourself to conform and configure to the lifestyle you believe you OUGHT to have. You can try to get up at 5am for your workouts even though you’re a night owl. You can try to go to school online even though you are a social extrovert. You can try to eat six small meals a day, when you can only reliably eat 2 or 3. And you can try to have a ‘perfect’ relationship or try to live with the one you have.
You have enough to worry about. You have plenty of things on your plate. Why not lighten up a bit on the things that are not absolutely life and death? Play to your strengths instead of your weaknesses? Go with the flow sometimes?
For instance – it’s better to work out twice a week at 9pm then miss every workout you have scheduled for 5am (when you and I both know you are NOT going to get up).
It’s better to find a live classroom where you can meet and interact rather than force yourself to sit through a more de-personalized, online school experience.
It’s better to have a quality breakfast and then dinner (maybe with a snack in between?) instead of rigidly following somebody else’s schedule.
And it’s far better to stick with a functioning, healthy relationship than constantly be in ‘fix-it’ mode (I’m preaching to my own personal choir here).
Stop worrying.
Stop stressing.
And please stop putting yourself down.
Make your life easier.
Not harder!
End of lesson for today :-)
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