Happy Ground Hog Day, again and again ...

Hey, Cynthia here. Happy Groundhog Day! So the question comes up, have you been feeling like every day is Groundhog Day? I wanted to take a moment and just chat with you briefly about how I'm handling that repetitive feeling of Groundhog Day. It's certainly something that I've been experiencing experiencing through a lot of January too. So it's not a one-off. It's not just today. That repeats itself over and over. It's really that every day has been like that. And really at the end of the day it's what, what do we do when we feel that we're in this cycle of endless repetition? I would suggest to you that one of the things that certainly seems that help is actually having routine. And a routine allows you to focus on the things that work for you. Again, the assumption is that if you've got a routine and it's not working for you, well, you don't follow the routine. You need to get a new routine. But when you have a routine and it works for you, one of the best ways to deal with this endless Groundhog Day is to actually leverage that routine. And being able to do that, whatever it is for you, so that it helps you to get through those days to deal with it. It also helps to, you know, forward plan something that look forward to. So it's a way to goal set a future state. Not necessarily an immediate state, but something you can work towards and something that you can look forward to. Obviously, depending where you're at, what your conditions are, this could be very wide and varied. But the long and short is that really what you want to make sure is that you are focusing wholly on what will work for you. It very much has to be internally focused. And I know this is so countercultural where we think that when we focus on ourselves that we become selfish. And while I understand that thinking, the problem is that if we don't take care of ourselves, we can never be enough for anyone else. If we can't even be enough for ourselves. Again, let me say that again. You cannot be enough for anyone else if you cannot be enough for yourself. So I advocate for you taking that approach. To making sure that you are the best you possible so that you actually have something left in the tank to give others. And I think if you do that with the help of routine in building that ability, if you do it with future goal setting as something to look forward to, something to work up towards, then I think at the end of the day you're on the right track. So happy Groundhog Day, and here's hoping