10 Ways to Sort Out Your Complicated Life
There comes a point in everyone’s life when they feel as if they are entrapped in a complicated mesh that they themselves have created around them. They cannot find a way to sort it all out. The funny thing is, when it happens to someone else, one has all sort of advices to give; but when it comes to one’s own self, we are blank! Here are 10 ways to sort out your complicated life, that is, if your life is complicated.
1. Take a breath
What happens often is that you are too caught up in the complication and you have no time to pause and think about your life. If you would not take a breather, your vision would forever remain clouded, and that essentially translates to a complicated life.
2. Let it out
In the tech-savvy era of ours, this step is exactly where no technology can replace the good old pen and paper. Get out a yellow legal pad or your beloved diary, and go ahead and belt out your sob story. Do not hold back, even if things do not make sense and you feel like you are penning down gibberish, do it!
3. Try to make sense of it
After you have taken a pause and put it all down, chances are you would already start to feel better and see things clearly. Spend time on reading what you wrote and go through it, examine it to identify why is it that you feel your life is complicated. Figure out the culprit.
4. Involve your friends.
This is what friends are there for. Reach out for your closed ones, the ones that do not secretly feel happy that you have messed up. Talk to them, let them know what is bothering you, and seek their advice and act on it.
5. Positive reinforcement
If you have read our article on the importance of Positive reinforcement, you know that it can work wonders. Giving yourself a constant feedback that your life is not messed up will help you believe in the notion. It will eventually help you sort things out.