Do You Know The Best Way To Ride Your Roller coaster?

Your response to daily challenges defines who you are

If you are like me, you get to ride the daily roller coaster of challenges and emotions.

This is generally true, but now it is more intense than ever.

COVID-19 puts so many of us into new territory.

Learning how we navigate this roller coaster daily is critical to our mental health and physical well-being.

I am sure that I am like most people and feeling the weight of this crisis.

Like most, I am worried about family, friends, my organization, our community, our country, and the world. That becomes a lot of mind space to have occupied.

I have to work hard to make sure I free my mind up to work effectively.

I want to be available for those I care so much about. It’s not too much of a guess to say you are doing the very same thing.

So, what do we do about it?

In less challenging times, I would seek solutions and move forward doing the best I could.

It was, or least seemed to be, a simpler time. The number of moving parts was less. Or were they? I am not so sure they were — but I just imagined they were.

Life has always been complicated, and it will always be.

What I get to do consistently is determine my response.

This is the real secret to good mental health and physical well-being.

The only thing that is mine is my response.

Is my response appropriate to the need in this situation?

The other component I have control over is how do I show up at this moment.

When I am rested and prepared, I can show up better able to deal with the issues at hand.

I do still have the ability to determine my response to all that is happening.

For me, this is where my values come into play.

What do I value, and what do I want my life to be?

Can I stay true to who I am despite what confronts me today?

Will I support others in the process they use to remain whole and functioning?

Can I serve others and do it while staying healthy and productive?

These are the questions I am using to clarify how I will proceed through this challenging time.

I share this to help you develop your strategy for navigating this time.

We all have a different shape to our daily roller coasters.

We need our plan to proceed.

It can help to clarify our strategy, share ours with others, and assist them in finding their approaches.

Doing so allows us all to survive and begin to thrive in the future.

You control how you will ride your daily roller coaster of emotions.

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