When there’s lots of uncertainty in our lives or if we are lacking direction, stressed and not to sure of what needs to be done to make progress it’s easy to start to feel overwhelmed.

It’s all to evident now a days that anxiety and depression are becoming an epidemic and for many there seems little relief.
And I don’t have a total solution.

But I do know this space well and something that for me is essential is creating structures , routines, rituals and habits inside those times where there doesn’t seem to be any definitive ‘next move’.

Things like getting up early when you don’t need to or want to in order to complete some tasks/routines whether that meditation, breath work, exercise, training, reading, watching or listening to something educational etc.
Making sure we are eating properly or at least supplementing with something that helps to sustain us.
Getting around people who have a positive outlook or who are accomplished is also something we must pursue rather than looking for confirmation that it’s hopeless from negative fixed mindset types.

We may not have access to these people but that something Social media does do well with the plethora of podcasts and interviews out there that offer some great advice and insight.
Sometimes these things don’t equate to anything other than what they are.

They don’t guarantee life or the universe will cooperate and give us all the answers.
Just this morning at 5am doing my stretching in my beanie and fleece coat in the cold I thought ‘what the fuck am I doing here, is this even going to change anything? Just go back to bed.’

And then I say ‘then what? Do what you say you are going to do, that’s why you are here.’
And it might seem pointless, but what these things do provide is the building blocks of character.

Things like discipline, resilience, reliability, tenacity, courage, acceptance, gratitude and faith.
It’s not just keeping busy, its keeping us primed, because if the door of opportunity opens we want to be able to spring through it like fleas onto a dog – super fast!