"I've gotta stop setting goals for myself. Every time I do, I end up blowing them to hell and gone"
A friend of mine was recently smashed hard by depression. Like... really badly. She's a writer professionally, and she found she couldn't write. but she got back up on the horse and set a deadline. And missed it. Then another deadline, and missed that one too. She passed 3 or 4 deadlines, before she finally finished.
She said that part of the key was just to not think of it as failure, but just another step of progress. Even if you miss a deadline, yu're probably further than you were before. <3
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Date: 2016-09-16 08:57 am (UTC)A friend of mine was recently smashed hard by depression. Like... really badly. She's a writer professionally, and she found she couldn't write. but she got back up on the horse and set a deadline. And missed it. Then another deadline, and missed that one too. She passed 3 or 4 deadlines, before she finally finished.
She said that part of the key was just to not think of it as failure, but just another step of progress. Even if you miss a deadline, yu're probably further than you were before. <3