- Stop complaining and count your blessings every day. Start with three and build it up to five every day. Be specific and count the so-called things that are often taken for granted. I’ll start with a) my fingers worked, and I can type this blog, (b) I can see, and c) I can see in color.
- Embrace loneliness and reinvent yourself in the process. Being unattached, I get lonely sometimes, but that loneliness has allowed me to do and write all sorts of stuff – including the first of three novels I am writing. One at a time : )
- Say goodbye to those who don’t bring positive energy into your life and drain you. It may include family members; family loyalty stops when abuse and bullying start and continues. It’s unbelievable how much lighter you will feel when you say adios to toxic relationships.
- Pick one skill you want to embrace or improve and put all your effort into learning or improving upon it. See part two of number two. I have numerous partly-written manuscripts in the cloud, but I’ve never said, “I will write this novel and finish the first draft by x-date”, so they remain incomplete. That is, until now.
- Sweat every day to improve your mood. I need to do a lot more of this and reap the benefits. It will also help me have a clearer and healthier head to write with.
- Fail forward. Learn from every mistake you make. Yeah, it sucks when things don’t go your way, and it’s easy to get down on yourself. But don’t. Just move forward and consider yourself a work in progress. Even the best golfers in the world sometimes spray their tee shots and miss short putts.
- Commit to the goals you set and never look back. Pick a few and go for it. Oh, and don’t tell anyone else because someone will always be a naysayer or impart their two cents—which is usually all it is worth.
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