[TEXT] To make changes in your life, worry about them in the morning, not at night.

People tend to do the reverse. Ruminate and go over shortcomings at night, and then wake up with a fuzzy recollection with the mind wanting to go everywhere but back to the uncomfortable, sleep depriving thoughts from the night before. All we want is to get a coffee and to savor the time we get to ourselves before work, and that becomes a bad habit.

Instead, try letting yourself off the hook at night, and actively make yourself uncomfortable as soon as you wake up in the morning, thinking about all the ways you are not yet fulfilled as a human being. That way they're fresh in your mind to focus on for the rest of the day.

(Obviously if you have a mental illness/neurosis you probably ruminate on random irrelevant shortcomings constantly (and in an unhealthy way), but can't actually act on the changes, because you're not physically able to--or if an opportunity shows up you feel too shit and worthless to take it, or nothing is ever good enough. I get it. You have to deal with that separately before you can get into the whole /r/GetMotivated cliche effectively.)

Submitted January 15, 2018 at 04:10AM by lookingintothesun http://ift.tt/2r7RA0t