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Affirmation #10 — Good AND Bad
There are good days AND bad days. Keep going, and you’ll find both.
When I’m not doing well, it sometimes seems like these bad things are all that have ever existed and all that will ever exist. But that’s not true! Good days will come again.
Conversely, sometimes when I’m doing well, I think that I’m finally at an idealized “better” place and that my life will be perfect from now on. That’s not true either. There will always be hard times, easier times, neutral times, happier times, sadder times, etc., throughout life. When I expect things to be more perfect than is realistic, it a) makes me stressed about the good times ending because I know deeper down that I won’t be able to keep up with these expectations, and b) makes me crash harder when I start to feel worse again.
Reminding myself of the duality and accepting both the good and the bad helps me to keep a more balanced perspective.
Affirmation #9 — Be reasonable, be realistic, let it be good enough
Be Reasonable
Be Realistic
Let it be good enough
Affirmation #8 — I’m a survivor
It says:
I’m a survivor
I don’t won’t give up
I will survive
Keep on surviving
I am strong enough to handle this
Life is still worth living even when there’s pain
I am going through a rough time, and I will make it through
I will get back up again
Not giving up today
I know that I’m really really really gonna be okay
Credits/citations: The first four lines are from the song “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child. Those aren’t quite the lyrics because I misheard them, but I like them. “Life is still worth living even when there’s pain” is a line from the radical acceptance part of my DBT handbook, DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, second edition, by Marsha M. Linehan. The last three lines are from different parts of the the song “Get Back Up Again” from the movie “Trolls.”
Affirmation #7 — I can do this
Affirmation #6 — Something is better than nothing
You may have guessed that this is something important to me from the fact that it’s the name of my blog. 🙂 I’ve actually had this sticky note longer than I’ve had this blog. I wrote about what “Something over Nothing” means to me here a while ago.
Affirmation #5 — I will do my best
Affirmation #3 — I have the power to turn my day around
What starts off as a bad day doesn’t have to end as one.
Affirmation #2 — I am doing my best, and I can improve
It’s a dialectic!
(update: this isn’t going to be an everyday thing. That feels like too much to me.)
An affirmation — Resilience
I’ve been writing things on sticky notes or scraps of paper and posting them around my room for a while now. Sometimes when I pull myself out of a bad place, there’s some nugget — thought, belief, or quote — that helped me out of the darkness, and I jot it down so that I’ll remember it in the future. I’ve amassed a nice collection and would like to share them.
Here is one (fyi, with a swear word):
This has been inspiring me and giving me hope and confidence recently. I have been met with lots of challenges, but I have survived all of them.
I like It’s Okay Not to Be Okay‘s daily motivation quotes and would like to do something similar, so I will schedule these to be posted once a day for the next two weeks. Yay 🙂 I’m trying something new here in my blogging!
DBT connection: This is like the E in the “IMPROVE the moment” skill: Encouragement.
Something over Nothing 