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when my sister’s wedding got cancelled two days before its actual date. I taught myself to drive a car when my job started getting monotonous and draining. I set a goal to read 25 books a year when my love life had issues every day. I hit the gym five times a week when I was deep down in debts. I took all those activities to escape from reality. But once the fog has cleared, the habits helped in self-improvement.</p><h2 id="7986">Problems Are Medicine</h2><p id="3b37">As I expressed in the above paragraph, problems could make you better like medicine to your body. Unless I hadn’t faced those troubles, I would have lived a boring life. What seemed like an escape route helped me face my problems with a strong mindset. Also, I have learned you cannot escape from problems, but you have to face them.</p><h2 id="fb8e">Habits Could Be Fatal</h2><p id="7706">Be careful in what habits you get into. Reading, writing, and hitting the gym are positive habits. Alcohol consumption, self-abuse, drugs turn gradually fatal. Wrong habits have the potential not only to destroy your life but also the lives of ones you love.</p><h2 id="fcb0">Take Responsibility</h2><p id="05b5"><i>My girlfriend is responsible for my miserable life, my parents influenced my current nature, my boss is responsible for failed career growth.</i> We often catch ourselves blaming others for our life problems. But life gets better right when we take sole responsibility for it.</p><p id="bb0a">Quitting the depressing job, breaking up with the abusive relationship demands responsibility. It doesn’t mean we have to break everything that creates problems, before ending anything; think why you have started it first. Don’t expect others to understand what you go through; they can’t.</p><h2 id="f683">Find The Right One</h2><p id="3ce9">I don’t say you should face your struggles alone. Depression fades away when you share it. But rather than brooding over your troubles to everyone or not sharing with anyone, both shall be brutal. Find the right person. It could either be your pare

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nts, your partner, your long-time friend, or even your therapist. Be sure they could understand you without being judgemental. They need not find you a way to overcome your situation, the feel of not being left alone is sometimes enough. Understand who is helpful and who is not.</p><h2 id="a544">Take Small Steps</h2><p id="e43c">It is difficult to take any positive step when every breath is a battle and every second is a war. You could write about your day or cycle for an hour. Do it small, but maintain discipline. It doesn’t matter if you have nothing to write, feel sick to ride a cycle, take a break, and come back strong. Problems could take time to heal, your tiny habits would make a great impact in the long run.</p><h2 id="4cee">Eat Right</h2><p id="cc73">If you don’t take care of your health, it will not take care of you in need. Eating healthy has many benefits. Some depression survivors have mentioned that eating right has helped them stay positive about their life. Don’t compromise on food. You have got to live, anyway.</p><h2 id="74fa">Hate Your Job; Love What You Do.</h2><p id="8ea9">The enormous population doesn’t love their job, but it doesn’t mean they have nothing to do about it. Even if your work is mundane, justify it anyway. If you don’t like the rules, follow it with dedication, rise to the top, and change the rules. Stop blaming. Work hard, find your inclination, discipline your process and results will follow.</p><h2 id="226f">Motivation, Self-help - A double-Edged Sword</h2><p id="e0b7">Reading a self-help book and watching motivational videos can be helpful. But merely moving a muscle to solve your problems is barely helpful. Motivation is like a drug, could bring pleasure instantly and could disappear the next minute. Action inspires motivation, and the cycle is recursive. Read self-help occasionally, follow ideas that could be suitable for you.</p><p id="81d6">Finally, not all points may apply to everyone, take your suitable pieces, and prepare a lemonade when life throws you lemons.</p></article></body>

How I Prepared Lemonade When Life Threw Me Lemons

A Practical Approach To Life’s Problems

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Wait! this could be a cliche motivational advice and may be available in tonnes on the internet. Well! yes, I don’t say this article will differ from any of the previously published life’s problems and its solutions. But the approach that I had followed had yielded positive results.

Why Me?

Look around everyone. They all seem to have a peaceful and joyous life. Why me?. It is not uncommon to feel that problems find me in a way or another. Some have financial problems, some have relationship troubles, some feel they have too much and some feel they have nothing. So, every human in this world has the trouble of Why me?. Understand this overwhelming feeling is universal. A friend of yours who looks happy and makes people laugh also has experienced Why me?.

It Is Ok To Be Not Ok

When people stumble upon problems, they all exhibit a behavior pattern of self-isolating themselves from the world. It is cowardice to cry in front of everyone. It is bad to look gloomy, always. What if they will laugh at my problems?. What if it doesn’t look serious? The DNA structure of each human is unique, the same as life’s problems. Perspective differs. Never care about how others react. You know the weight of your troubles, so embrace it. There is nothing wrong to be not OK. But staying inside and not finding a way could be harmful. No problems are big enough to worry; small enough to avoid.

Build Positive Habits

I learned to swim at 27 when my sister’s wedding got cancelled two days before its actual date. I taught myself to drive a car when my job started getting monotonous and draining. I set a goal to read 25 books a year when my love life had issues every day. I hit the gym five times a week when I was deep down in debts. I took all those activities to escape from reality. But once the fog has cleared, the habits helped in self-improvement.

Problems Are Medicine

As I expressed in the above paragraph, problems could make you better like medicine to your body. Unless I hadn’t faced those troubles, I would have lived a boring life. What seemed like an escape route helped me face my problems with a strong mindset. Also, I have learned you cannot escape from problems, but you have to face them.

Habits Could Be Fatal

Be careful in what habits you get into. Reading, writing, and hitting the gym are positive habits. Alcohol consumption, self-abuse, drugs turn gradually fatal. Wrong habits have the potential not only to destroy your life but also the lives of ones you love.

Take Responsibility

My girlfriend is responsible for my miserable life, my parents influenced my current nature, my boss is responsible for failed career growth. We often catch ourselves blaming others for our life problems. But life gets better right when we take sole responsibility for it.

Quitting the depressing job, breaking up with the abusive relationship demands responsibility. It doesn’t mean we have to break everything that creates problems, before ending anything; think why you have started it first. Don’t expect others to understand what you go through; they can’t.

Find The Right One

I don’t say you should face your struggles alone. Depression fades away when you share it. But rather than brooding over your troubles to everyone or not sharing with anyone, both shall be brutal. Find the right person. It could either be your parents, your partner, your long-time friend, or even your therapist. Be sure they could understand you without being judgemental. They need not find you a way to overcome your situation, the feel of not being left alone is sometimes enough. Understand who is helpful and who is not.

Take Small Steps

It is difficult to take any positive step when every breath is a battle and every second is a war. You could write about your day or cycle for an hour. Do it small, but maintain discipline. It doesn’t matter if you have nothing to write, feel sick to ride a cycle, take a break, and come back strong. Problems could take time to heal, your tiny habits would make a great impact in the long run.

Eat Right

If you don’t take care of your health, it will not take care of you in need. Eating healthy has many benefits. Some depression survivors have mentioned that eating right has helped them stay positive about their life. Don’t compromise on food. You have got to live, anyway.

Hate Your Job; Love What You Do.

The enormous population doesn’t love their job, but it doesn’t mean they have nothing to do about it. Even if your work is mundane, justify it anyway. If you don’t like the rules, follow it with dedication, rise to the top, and change the rules. Stop blaming. Work hard, find your inclination, discipline your process and results will follow.

Motivation, Self-help - A double-Edged Sword

Reading a self-help book and watching motivational videos can be helpful. But merely moving a muscle to solve your problems is barely helpful. Motivation is like a drug, could bring pleasure instantly and could disappear the next minute. Action inspires motivation, and the cycle is recursive. Read self-help occasionally, follow ideas that could be suitable for you.

Finally, not all points may apply to everyone, take your suitable pieces, and prepare a lemonade when life throws you lemons.

Depression
Problems
Nonfiction
Self Improvement
Motivation
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