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Turn Around Discouragement
We have felt discouraged from time to time. It is a universal human emotion. It comes from having plans or goals that aren’t just falling quickly or easily or, it can feel like ‘ever’, into place. And we start to doubt ourselves. We think about giving up. Quitting that project. “That idea was stupid anyway.”…
We have felt discouraged from time to time. It is a universal human emotion.
It comes from having plans or goals that aren’t just falling quickly or easily or, it can feel like ‘ever’, into place. And we start to doubt ourselves.
We think about giving up.
Quitting that project.
“That idea was stupid anyway.”
“Why did we actually think we could succeed?”
Discouragement can lead to depression and despair if it occurs often enough or if we are already battling with these in our lives.
There are some things that make discouragement worse:
- Not being rested. If we are tired or sleep deprived things just seem worse than they really are. We aren’t able to put things in their proper perspective.
- We keep missing our goals — we aren’t feeling successful in many, if any, areas of our life. If we have problems in one area of our life and then something unrelated also isn’t…
