How To Get Out Of a Bad Mood

Sometimes there are days where I just don’t feel good for no good reason! It could be influenced by anything from lack of sleep or exercise, to lack of direction with my goals or schedule.

At times like this, it’s incredibly easy to just wallow in your grumpy, irritable mood. But that doesn’t make you feel any better! 

I’ve found a good way to help get myself out of this mood, so try this next time you feel this way, too:

• Sit down with a pen and paper.
• Write down dot points answering this question: “What are my main problems right now? What is causing me to feel bad?”
• Go through each point, and write down what the SOLUTION would be to this problem.
• Write down steps to take in order to make this solution possible.
• If the solution is not possible or is out of your hands, you’re going to have to focus on letting go of that problem, as it will be wasted energy stressing over something you can’t control!

Working this way will teach you how to mentally work your way out of a bad day. After all, a bad day isn’t a bad day - it’s just a bad attitude! Only you allow a day to be bad. It’s all a matter of perspective!

What I Learnt in 2016

I uploaded a video on Youtube of what I learnt in 2016!

The amount I grew in 2016 is crazy - it’s possibly the most I’ve grown in any one year! Here’s a recap of what I talked about in the video:

• Started working full time for the first time in my life.

• Learnt how to be disciplined and how to build a schedule that works for me, and how to stick to that schedule. It actually took me a while to realise that if I didn’t draw or gym in my very limited free time during the week (mornings and evenings), then it wouldn’t happen at all, and weeks and months would pass with zero improvement!

• Finally found a diet that works for me! With limiting carbs and sweets and unhealthy foods without feeling deprived of them or feeling the need to eat them all the time and have horrible cravings!!
  I did a 12 week program with my best friend and incredibly smart Personal Trainer, Emily, and the biggest things I learnt from that is:

  • The importance in fat in a diet when limiting carbs.

  • The effect eating carbs in the morning has on your energy and cravings (you crave carbs much more throughout the day, and you also have greater peaks and troughs in your blood sugar).

  • How good having a high protein and fat breakfast can have on your blood sugar and cravings.

  • How it feels to not be tired all the time because of crazy blood sugar.

  • How to push myself.

• I learnt a tonne about the gut, inflammation, blood sugar, and the effect the pill can have on your body. I found out that my gut was very unhappy (constantly bloated), and I altered my diet by eliminating gluten and dairy, with great results. I then found out the pill was still affecting my gut horribly, and my gut improved substantially after coming off of it (I can now eat gluten and dairy with fewer issues than before). I also learnt of the many silent symptoms that I didn’t even realise I was experiencing because of the pill - constipation (from affecting liver function and the gut), weight gain and fluid retention or similar (I’m assuming from the effect on my gut), making my breasts denser, weak nails (also from unhappy gut).

• I learnt about leaky gut - where cells can leak from your intestines into your blood stream, meaning that any inflammation that you may experience in your gut from eating hard-to-digest foods (especially gluten) can result in the inflammation leaking into your bloodstream and being transported to other areas of your body! Good motivation to eat well!

• I learnt to take chances, and not worry about having to be perfect all the time, and to just focus on and enjoy the process and journey!!! Of learning new skills, and improving on old ones.

So Happy New Year to everyone, and I hope you have a good year and work hard!!! Plan your future and reach those goals! :D

A short summary of the major things I learnt in 2016! Content: 1. Started a Full Time Job (0:23) 2. Learnt Discipline (0:49) 3. Diet & Health (1:30) 4. Gut Health, Inflammation and The Pill (4:04) 5.

Happy New Year! 2017

The amount I have grown in 2016 is crazy - it’s possibly the most I’ve grown in any one year! For me, 2016 saw the start of working full time - I was lucky enough to score a full time illustrator role, directly related to my studies, and close to home, too! This job has given me a huge confidence boost, in believing that I’m worth hiring in the field that I want to work in. After 2 years of no leads at all in the job front, obtaining this job has been a life-changer, and great motivator.

And of course, with working your first full time job, I learnt a hell of a lot about myself - about what I’m capable of, and of where I need to focus on changing and growing further.

This year, I’ve seen great changes in my health, lifestyle, and mentality, and I learnt the necessity of being disciplined in order to get everything done that I need to (because a full time job takes up a hell of a lot of a person’s time!). I’ve learnt how to be disciplined in order to get shit done (who really needs to sit in front of the TV every night after work anyway!), and I’ve both rediscovered my passion to create in multiple mediums, and also learnt how to squash down that mean little anxious voice who says I’m never good enough and there’s no point in trying (I’m sure every artist will have experienced this at some point!!).

I’m so excited for what 2017 will bring, and to get cracking on my goals for the next year!

My goals are:

• Draw for 30 minutes at least 4 times a week.

• Have an online social media presence every day - posting several times a day over different sites.

• Start Investing and planning my money for the future.

• Continue going to the gym at least 4 times a week.

I shall probably add more as the year progresses, but those are my main focuses for the moment :)

So Happy New Year to everyone, and I hope you have a good year and work hard!!! Plan your future and reach those goals! :D