Moping and Whining Won’t Get You There

For me, August has always been a notoriously bad month, if anything for the weather alone, but this one takes the cake.  A friendship I had with a guy for over 13 years mercifully but woefully came to an end, my new business has had its launch delayed for the umpteenth time due to a Director of Human Resource having the urgency of sap, and I still somehow live in a town which I am convinced is ground zero for the grossly misinformed and psychologically cloistered in the United States.

I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a part of me at times that feels like assuming the fetal thumb-sucking position however I have learned over the years that these types of stressors are signs of progress; landmarks sending me messages that I am on a path of growth. Not to say there is anything wrong with moments of contentment but when a life is lived in a billowy pillow of comfort, the other shoe will eventually drop…and hard.

Use your own personal moments of stress to become a better person.  Why did these things happen?  What was my role in it?  Am I the problem?  What can I do differently in the future to avoid this happening again?  Was it my fault at all?

Moping and ignoring your problems assure you of repeating the same destructive behaviors while also stunting any opportunity for true progress to occur.