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The “blahs” are when the blues collide with the “bah” from your “humbug.”
This occurs if we decide that the present circumstances seem to lack promise, so we are pre-prepared for sadness and defeat.
In my opinion, it is the struggle of the conscience, procrastination and disappointment–our conscience being the part of us that wants to do right; procrastination, the urge to put it off until tomorrow; and disappointment, the bad mood we find ourselves in because of the results so far.
Yes, when these three are conflicted, emotions dull, the spirit goes to sleep, the brain goes on automatic pilot and the body becomes overly demanding and aggressive.
Therefore, we over-react, over-compensate and over-eat.
So what can we do?
Well, it’s a good idea to minister to these three parts of you, since they’re not going to go away.
The best way to convince your conscience that you intend on participating in a righteous path is to:
1. Tell the truth.
Yes, first be honest with yourself. Sometimes simply stating aloud what is troubling you is enough to break the dreariness of the blahs.
In handling procrastination, my best suggestion is:
2. Do something dreamy today.
Yes, instead of ignoring what you’ve always said you wanted to do, find a simple representation of your goals and aspirations and put it into practice immediately.
If you’re a fisherman and you can’t go out fishing, simply go to the store and purchase a new lure for your tackle box.
If you’re a person who wants to be a seamstress and you don’t have time to sew right now, buy a beautiful bolt of cloth as a reminder.
Yes, bring to remembrance why you do what you do, for procrastination is not a terminal disease that infects us, but rather, a blemish on our skin that needs treatment and will go away if we don’t insist that it’s here to stay.
You have a dream. Find a piece of it and enact it.
And finally, when disappointment threatens to close down all motivation:
3. Go out and give something away that you’re not using.
It seems a little contradictory that the best way to handle feeling cheated is to become generous, but actually, since receiving must always begin with giving, you will be astonished at how quickly your disappointment leaves when you bring joy to another person over something you’re not putting to use anyway.
- Tell the truth.
- Do something dreamy.
- And give something away.
You’ll be astonished at how your “humbug” will no longer feel any “bah” … and your blues will brighten into a new day.
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