Doing what we can

I'm someone who can very easily feel stressed and anxious.

Recently, however, I discovered a trick that helps me break out of the paralysis that can hit when worry takes over.

I ask myself what I can do to help a situation. And then I do it.

If there's nothing I can do to help a particular situation, I ask myself if there is anything else I can do to help my life in general, and then do that instead.

It stops me from feeling powerless. And the act of doing something prevents me from just sitting and worrying.

I'll share with you an example. There is so much I want to do in my garden to get it all planted and looking beautiful. My to-do list is a mile long, but we just don't have the funds for most of it right now.

I could sit there stewing about it, worrying about money and getting annoyed with how life keeps throwing curveballs. Or I could do what I can do.

So I'm doing that.

I'm collecting free materials from around our garden and the neighbourhood to fill the bottom layers of my raised beds. I'm also clearing away weeds and ivy and preparing the ground in anticipation of the fruit trees I'm going to buy and plant.

It's all good, helpful work that is keeping me busy so I feel capable instead of powerless.

Mindset is so important.

If you're like me and often find yourself wound up with anxiety, I hope you'll find some comfort in the act of doing what you can, whatever that may be.

You do have power over your situation.

xx