When it comes to living a mental healthy life, setting goals can be a good way to build a strong foundation. Whether your goals inspire massive transpiration or a small shift, setting a goal is an opportunity. I’ll be honest – I don’t unchangingly take that opportunity. Achieving goals can be hard, but creating them can be difficult too. It’s nonflexible to try and modernize on something when you aren’t quite sure how to get there. So how can we get largest at setting goals if the process can leave us so confused?

When I put withal an would-be goal, there are immediately challenges that pop up surpassing I can plane begin. If I’m lucky, I know what I’m trying to do, but struggle in figuring out how to get there. More often, what happens is that not only are the steps toward achieving that goal vague, but so is the goal itself.

Balancing mental health can be challenging. Sometimes it can finger like we’re treading water, just trying to alimony ourselves afloat. If your goal is to get from one day to the next (or sometimes from moment to moment) how can you modernize outside of that? Regardless of how you tackle it, it’s nonflexible work.

When all of this swirls virtually in my head, it usually leads to one thing: feeling overwhelmed. I lose train of my thoughts, or I have difficulty creating any original thoughts. My intrusive thoughts can take over, or I start to finger a pounding headache. I immediately finger the impact and know that I can’t move forward in that moment, which is very frustrating.There’s a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. that I often think of in moments like this: “Faith is taking the first step plane when you don’t see the whole staircase.” And plane when faith is an issue – faith in something else, or plane faith in ourselves – that first step is vital. Improving our mental health doesn’t unchangingly happen by leaps and bounds. Most times, it happens one step at a time. Sometimes we know what the steps are withal the way but other times, it’s a mystery.

But towers a strong foundation ways that a setback doesn’t unchangingly been a step back. Sometimes we’re just stuck on a particular step, trying to sort out what the next move is. I like to think of setting goals in the same way. I tend to get stuck on a lot of things (mental illness can do that to a person), but I’m tired of vibration myself up over it. I don’t need to icon out what works for just anyone; I need to icon out what works weightier for me.

However you go well-nigh your goals this week, I hope you can alimony these things in mind. You are unique and special in your own way, and that ways your process might squint variegated than someone else’s. In fact, it might squint variegated than the way you’ve washed-up it previously. That’s okay! Each of these moments is a endangerment to get to know yourself better, to learn and grow as a person. And I’ll try to take those moments as often as I can.