Today is Step #4 in my spin control recovery plan! Maybe you won't need my plan but let's see...it's Day 7 of the New Year and I was already spinn' once! Maybe my life is just more "amusement park" like...with more ups and downs than the biggest roller coaster there...but I am thinking I am NOT alone. Hence my desire to share with you my fabulous, time tested (lord it's been tested) recovery plan!
Ah....no thanks are necessary. :) That's how I am...LOL!
Now today...Step #4...Refocus.
When you have had your world spin out of control...first you breathe, then you reach out, then you clarify...and then you refocus!
Refocus is finding your footing again. It's regrouping, readjusting if you must and then moving forward again. Falling down...having things go wrong...having things spin out of control or feel like they are... is part of life.
If you are changing behavior...it's hard. If you are engaging with another human...it's hard. But it's worth ALLthe efforts it takes to get where you say you want to go. I really believe it is.
To help you refocus take time to remember what you want. Read your perfect day (Now aren't you glad you took time to write your perfect day out...I told you it would come in handy!)...feel the feelings you want to experience when you are living your perfect day. You keep imagining those feelings every day and soon you won't have to be imagining them...they will be your reality. That review helps you refocus...get clear about the whys of what you are doing and what you are after.
You then start out again...hopefully alittle wiser about what may have triggered your spinn'. And with a concrete plan to stop it faster next time it happens. Because truth be told...there probably will be a next time but I find the spinn' is less and less when I work my recovery plan and that is a very good thing indeeed.
So there you have it...my spin control recovery plan:
Step #1 Breathe
Step #2 Reach Out
Step# 3 Clarify
Step #4 Refocus
Repeat as often as needed.
Next time we are going to talk about support...it's just not for panty hose!!! Lord I crack myself up! See you then. :)
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