What helps keep dreams alive?

[Wandercharm]

A procedure I use to try and get my head in the right place to be more productive, is to spend time using life planning tools to analyse my values, strengths, and opportunities to help me come up with long and short-term goals for the future. As I get older these reassessments come to more and more of the same conclusions.

My motivation has been very poor for quite some time. Despite the logic established behind following my life paths I am quite unproductive because I cannot believe with sufficient force that my goals are worthwhile, or that they are achievable.

What are some skills you use, or logic you follow to fight Depression and believe in your dreams?

Wandercharm.

[BballJ]

Hi Wandercharm.

Everyone's goals are worthwhile, your goals or my goals... whatever it is that inspires you is an amazing thing. Jim Carrey said it best in a speech he made a while ago, it went something like this.

"My father could of been a great comedian but he didn't believe it was possible for him, he didnt dare ask the universe for it because it seemed out of reach, so he took the safe route and became an accountant, at 12 years old my dad was fired from that safe job and it taught me one thing, you can fail at what you dont love, so you might as well take a chance on doing something you love"

Everyone will take the into their own perspective, i probably didnt get it right word for word but that is my understanding of it, everyone has goals and dreams and all are worthwhile. The tip i use is to stay positive, when the chips are down, smile, stay positive. To motivate myself i listen to alot of motivational clips from youtube, people put together heaps of stuff and I often listen to them when driving to keep me going or push for my dreams. I suffer from Anxiety and mild depression but i try to stay positive as much as possible and fight for my goals and dreams, everyone deserve that opportunity, especially you and anyone reading this.

I hope this helped in someway.

My best,

Jay

[MsPurple]

Hi Wandercharm I think it is good that you make goals for yourself. I find doing a full on analysis on myself can make me feel worse so I tend to focus on more short goals and dreams. I try focus on the little things like my goal for this week is to do '2 hours of CPD for my nutrition accreditation' and my dream maybe to get a job in diabetes nutrition. I try make goals that aren't too grand. When I am really depressed I focus on small daily tasks, because when I'm really depressed I just need to focus on getting through the day. When it isn't completely flairing up I may focus on more long goals. I suggest you focus on weekly and monthly goals. Then when you are feeling better than you can have long term.

I also find meditation is good for helping your mind feel less restless and helps you make goals and keeps your dreams alive. YOu can also pick some meditation based on goal setting. check out some on youtube or look on the app store. I use Calm on my phone, but I don't pay the subscription (I repeat a lot of them). Meditation may not work for everyone, but it can never hurt having 5-10 minutes of alone time.

Hope some of these helps.

[geoff]

hi Wandercharm, it's interesting that before any type of depression we have plans, some which are really impossible to think that we could ever fulfill them, but just hoping that we can, and then depression hits you so there are no real sufficient dreams, only thoughts of being negative and dismissing what ever anyone says to us or even tells us that we are capable of doing.
When we start to see the light at the other end and begin to overcome depression our dreams or wishes can be completely different than before we had depression, so we go down a different path, maybe a little unknown but certainly hopeful that our life can now change, so let me give an example.
Before I had my major breakdown I was a handyman/builder thoroughly enjoying everthing I was doing, but then depression came and when finally I had overcome it, then to continue on as a handyman/builder frightened me so I didn't want to continue doing it, actually I hated the thought, but when one door shuts another door opens, so I just fell into what I am doing now.
It doesn't matter if you dream about wanting to do something you had always wanted to do, because another path you travel down will open up for you. Geoff.