177. How To Bounce Back When Feeling Discouraged

Do you ever get discouraged? Do you ever have those moments where you want to crawl into bed and pull the sheets over your head?  If you have goals – and they don't have to be to hit seven figures – goals like losing five pounds, keeping your kitchen organized, being faster at replying to emails – and you feel like you don't have it going on. That is the feeling of discouragement.  This is almost a constant state of being for so many business owners. But it's normal, and that feeling will creep up from time to time. This episode will be a how-to guide to break the cycle and bounce back into your zone of genius. It's time to create a new document. Now, open that document and title it: Lessons Learned. If you are currently in a state of discouragement, I want you to write down what you're currently learning. Isn't that such a different twist? Already? People talk about the feeling of failure right or having an experience that didn't go how they wanted it. They always say, "Oh, it's not really a failure because you're always learning," and then you want to slap them.  What we're going to do here is actually have you learn something from this exact moment when you're feeling yucky. It will shift your state, and this is not toxic positivity. Do you feel like you're not connected to the people that you love in your life? Do you need to learn that lesson? Perhaps you need the right people in your environment. You may need to learn the lesson of taking better care of your environment, the people you hang out with, the conversations you participate in, and the media you consume. Understand that a lot of the times in business specifically –we're talking business discouragement -- what's missing is a little bit more care. I know that that might sound harsh. I'm not saying you don't care about your business; I'm saying slow down. Does this email make sense, or will it make people feel pressured? (I don't have a problem with a bit of pressure if it will help somebody make a better decision, but then there's nasty pressure.) Was that in there? Could there be a little bit more care for the person receiving the email?  Could there be more care for the person who's going to read the social media post? Could there be more care in how I treated myself as I completed this task? Could there be a little bit of care toward me and humility that I might need to beef up my skills? Here's the deal, folks, discouragement can be one of our most significant points of opportunity. It can be the moment when you decide everything's going to go differently next time. It's like a calling to us that something needs tweaking. We've got more attention to pay over here so that we can cause more significant results over there. Discouragement is not comfortable. Let's be honest about that. It's uncomfortable, and that's one of the reasons that people don't talk about it, which makes me sad. We should discuss it more because it's easier to get out of than we think. We stay stuck in discouragement because we must actively try to learn what the discouragement is teaching us. If you're discouraged because someone is more successful than you and you're looking at them wondering why, recognize two things are happening: Either that person knows something you don't know, or that person is doing something you're not doing. Most of the time, what they know is how to pick themselves out of discouragement. What they know is how to learn from the times when they've felt discouraged. So, when you open that document and brain dump the lessons learned, you will feel fantastic because you'll move from discouragement to challenge. You are going to get so excited all of a sudden. You might still feel apprehensive and sad that you couldn't cause what you wanted to drive right away. But because you're in action, that mindset will shift almost immediately. As you go over these lessons learned and start to see what you can do or need to know, the second challenge is to get those things on your calendar. Schedule your implementation. This is the key to success. Let's get to it!   Other Game On Girlfriend podcast episodes you might want to check out:  Why Your Day-to-Day Conversations Matter: https://sarahwalton.com/conversations-matter/  Should You Close It Down or Keep Going?: https://sarahwalton.com/close-or-keep-going/  5 Tips to Create an Environment for Abundance: https://sarahwalton.com/abundant-environment/  Loneliness: The Truth About Entrepreneurship That No One Tells You About: https://sarahwalton.com/loneliness-entrepreneurship/  You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton   Thank you so much for listening. 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