The early bird gets the worm, but what happens when you’re the worm?
I didn’t get to complete my musing yesterday because unfortunately yesterday was one of those days I was the worm and not the bird.
From getting woken by the kids to getting pulled into the inputs of socials and everything else going on, I missed out on the focus and clarity of starting the day with a clean sheet of paper to throw down some thoughts. The good news is that, although it sucked for yesterday, today is a new day and today I can be the bird again, rather than the poor worm being eaten.
Yesterday wasn’t a total write off and even though I missed the window for some things I redirected that disappointed energy into other productive outcomes.
As such, it’s not ever truly hopeless unless you truly believe it is. At that stage it becomes difficult for anything to help you.
For anyone who’s ever experienced that kind of depressive episode where all feels lost, it becomes this negative spiral where your thoughts just run in a negative cycle of ‘what ifs’ and ‘what nots’.
I don’t have all the answers to this one and I’d probably go even further to say everyone has their own unique keys to unlocking the sequences and reframing their thought processes, however one thing I know helps me is actually surrendering myself to the situation.
Surrendering to the idea I can’t control everything - and that’s ok.
Surrendering to the idea I don’t know everything - and that’s ok.
Surrendering to the fact I can’t change what’s happened - and that’s ok.
All I can do, is select my actions going forward to do the best that I can and that’s will be enough.
It’s funny I actually woke up today with a different idea in my head I was going to muse about, however once I pulled on the thread of what I was thinking about when I woke up yesterday and was ambushed by life that this musing has gone in a totally different direction.
Rather than cloud this musing with a secondary thought, I’ll save that one for another day and leave this one here with this little thought starter - do you find yourself more often as the bird or the worm? What’s the method you use to make the most out of either situation?
