When You're Worn Out

Do you ever feel stuck?  You keep grasping onto anything you perceive to be moving just to feel the energy flowing through you? You pick up that book, read that article, imagine yourself as the character of the movie you’re watching to escape your paralysis.  And the clock keeps on ticking and you keep on grasping but all things slip one by one through your desperate fingers as you grow lethargic and blah.

You try a new focus, but it’s not really you and so you lose interest after only a few focused minutes and think, “Do I have ADD or something?”  And them you move on and try something else, only to find yourself in the same spot, only now more time has passed and you still haven’t found what you’re looking for.

 

We all have those moments.  And when we’re in the center of that moment it’s so hard to find a way through.  So how do we? How do we get past this awful static state that we’re floundering in?  How do we find that something that will make us feel like we have a purpose?  How can we find our happy, complete selves again?

 

First, you have to be honest.  You have to ask yourself if you’re doing things that really aren’t you.  Are you doing things that you’re really not good at and never will be?  Then ask yourself, “What am I good at?”  So many of us spend our lives doing things that don’t really make sense. 

 

Second, you have to stop blaming.  No one is to blame for the state that you’re in.  No one held a gun to your head (hopefully) and forced you to do things that aren’t really you.  It’s no one else’s fault that you’re unmotivated and disinterested with your life.

 

Third, get rid of the baggage.  Once you’re honest with yourself and admit the truth, you’ll feel like a 100 pounds lighter.  Once you stop blaming you’ll have room in your thoughts to think about what you can do and how you can do it.

 

Finally, reflect.  Reflect on how lucky you are to be here , even in the static and dull moments, even when we don’t know the answers.  Remember that you don’t have to have all the answers, that’s a job for the Creator.  You just have to be open to receiving them, one by one and then using them as you walk through your life’s journey.