How do you encourage yourself

[debidoo]

First remind myself that there is nothing that I can do to change any of the things that are bothering me if there isn't and I pray and think about how I believe that my life is in God's hands. And I ask him to please help me because I can't do anything without him.

[fillfran82]

Sometimes when my day is not going right and it seems like I can't do anything right, I begin to be really hard on myself and become critical of myself. I am sometimes my worse critic.  When I get to that point, I force myself to think of those things that I did get right and the good that I had done and remind myself that I am not perfect and still had a lot of growing to do.  What do you do to encourage yourself?

Hello! I too can be very hard on myself. Sometimes I can be very negative and lazy. Lukily I have a friend that is here to remind me when I'm screwing up. My friend helps to encourage me to do what I need to do. Also I encourage myself. For instance if I need to work out. I just tell myself get your lazy self up and moving. Then I remember the type of body I want. That also helps. I'm very fortunate to have a friend that helps encourage me when I'm down. But in the end your the only one that can really encourage yourself. You just gotta want it bad enough.

[jenniferhoder]

I feel for you. I have been there myself. Believe in yourself and that you WILL get through the it.

[inertia4]

Sometimes I watch videos, sometimes I listen to music. I usually try to sidetrack myself in order to get back on track. It seems to work for me.

[DeliriousKris]

I, too, struggle with the Negative Nancy living in my head.
Sometimes when I need encouragement, I look at my life now as compared to where it was 5 or even 2 years ago. I relax on my couch, and look around my house and tell myself "I worked for all this stuff, and I can AFFORD all of this! Some people can't." Now, I don't have a huge, glamorous house by any means, but I have one!

If that doesn't work, sometimes a hot bath and a nap make me feel better.

[ancmetro]

     Think: "I have to do this by this deadline". Then, break your final goal into small tasks.

[Tresbn00]

I look at pictures of my family. If I do not work at my highest level they will suffer. I really do not enjoy working sixteen hours per day/seven days a week or taking my laptop computer on vacation but the thought of saying no to their request for something that may help them excel more is very motivational. When I am at my most exhausted moment I push myself to go for another fifteen minutes because that extra fifteen minutes of effort done every day for three hundred and sixty five days comes out to over ninety one hours of work that nobody else would have done and compensation that no one else will earn. It is also why I have trained myself to invest better and to constantly be on the look out for new money making opportunities.

[missplaymate618]

I think about my 8yr old son who recently passed in January. And I have to remember that he's looking down on me and I want to make him proud along with his sister. I always think of my kiddos knowing everything I do, I do for them and it gets me through it and at least I know I am trying my hardest for them.

[gaylasue]

I just keep thinking about of my return trip planned for Hawaii next June, then in December 2018, and then for the next trip back sometime in 2019/20.  I have instructions that the Big Island is to be my final resting place for some of my ashes.

[6265AT99]

I tell myself that I can and I will accomplish what I set out to do and I do not let negative views or thoughts enter my mind.