Recapture Your Vision
Work on Balance
Businesses, life, and relationships that are vibrant and productive are powered by a vision. One of the keys to pushing back the negative, building relationship, expanding your business is to keep your balance.
Maintaining balance is critical to breaking the bonds of depression. When I ride a bicycle, which is a sight to behold, I am constantly trying to stay balanced. All of the small and large muscle groups work together to keep the bicycle and me in an upright position and going in the right direction. Balance takes work. You can begin attaining balance.
1. Break out of your rut.
a. Take 100 percent responsibility for yourself. You and I hold the keys that can unlock the lock and release the chains that hold us back.
b. Think, dream and write down how you will feel better in the future.
c. Move more – even a little bit of exercise has positive benefits.
d. Read books and listen to teaching and training that put good, healthy thoughts in your brain. Try more self-help and Christian living and less fiction.
2. Remember and repeat past joyful, fulfilling experiences. Begin by remembering, looking at photos, and reflecting on good things. Read through and work on the Experience Gratitude section.
3. Re-embrace your relationship with God. Jesus loves you more than you will ever know, and He specializes in working with people who feel messed up and disconnected. Take a moment; ask Him to draw you close. Then don’t be surprised when He does.
4. Don’t overplay the negative. Overthinking the past does little to improve it. The rest of this resource is designed to give you practical, biblical tools to help you move toward hope and a renewed sense of purpose and intentional living.
From Get a Grip on Depression, by John Thurman