TIRED OF ALL? 10 PRACTICAL TIPS TO GET AHEAD - GEOGRAFÍA - 2025

Tired of all? Life frequently poses complex situations to solve. At such times, people must do their best to succeed. However, these types of situations cause high physical and mental wear and tear that can be difficult to overcome.

Personal, family, work problems can pile up and motivate the appearance of the feeling of being fed up with everything. This fact can cause people to reach an extreme situation, in which they are left without the strength to continue.

Are you sick of everything? Try these 10 tips

1- Do not outsource responsibilities

The first aspect to take into account is not to outsource responsibilities. When problems pile up, it is common for people to pin the blame for what is happening to external elements.

"My work situation is unsustainable because of my boss", "with the current crisis it is impossible to have economic stability", "my family does not help me at all and I can no longer do anything"…

These types of thoughts tend to appear frequently when one is fed up with everything. And in some cases, the presence of these thoughts can be highly justified.

However, outsourcing responsibilities does not allow you to overcome difficult personal situations. If you do, you will leave your emotional state in the hands of elements that you cannot control and this will cause you greater doses of dissatisfaction.

Therefore, it is important that you become aware that the one who needs a change in your life is yourself. The one who has to make changes to be better is you and, therefore, it is important that you adopt a leading role.

2- Become aware that you need a change

Acquiring an active and leading role in extreme situations is a vitally important element, however, it is often complex to carry out.

When you are fed up with everything the need for action is coupled with the absence of physical and mental energy, a fact that can lead to a blocking situation. For this reason it is important that you go little by little and adopt an action plan that is in accordance with your current state.

Acquiring an active role in the life situation should not be an extra source of stress or pressure, but rather the opposite. It should be an element that allows you to guide a roadmap to follow and gives you the strength to carry it out.

In this sense, the first step to take is to become aware that you need a series of changes. This fact will be the starting point that allows you on the one hand to get out of the blockage situation and, on the other hand, to acquire motivation to improve your vital state.

3- Detect what things you would like to change

Once you are aware that you need a change, it is important that you use that idea as a source of motivation to overcome adversity. Right now you are fed up with everything, but you must visualize that if you make a series of modifications in your life, things can improve.

As mentioned above, it is important that you do this exercise calmly and patiently. Changes are not made from one day to the next, nor will you go from being fed up with everything to being delighted with your life immediately.

For this reason it is advisable to go step by step. Take the time to become aware that you need a change and then calmly reflect on those elements to modify.

If this exercise is not done calmly and with a certain degree of pause, you will probably develop the idea that you have to change everything because nothing seems right to you.

However, this step needs to be done in much more detail. If you detect generalized elements to change, it will be impossible for you to modify anything.

Go from less to more, start by detecting the most subtle and easy to carry out changes, and as you can modify them you will see yourself with strength to change more important elements.

4- Analyze the things that motivate you

The previous point must be closely related to motivation. That is, the changes to be made should increase your gratification and your motivation for the things you do.

Analyzing the things that motivate you is a difficult exercise when you are fed up with everything. It is usually common that at this time you do not find anything that is capable of motivating you.

However, it is important that you are aware that this is the case due to the emotional situation that you present at present. In other words, your current state prevents you from finding motivation, but that does not mean that you do not present any type of personal motivation.

If you look back, you will surely see other moments in your life where you had a great variety of motivations. The difference is that in the past you had fewer difficulties and problems, so it was easier for you to find motivations.

So, in this step it is not as important to find things that motivate you as to find elements that you think can motivate you.

Motivation does not appear autonomously but you must develop it yourself. If you start activities that you like, that you have liked or that you think you may like, you will already have a source where you can develop your motivation.

5- Set yourself goals

Another important element to overcome these types of moments is to set goals. If you review your immediate past, you probably realize that your current state is due in large part to having no goals or doing nothing to achieve your personal goals.

And it is that people need constant goals to be motivated, experience gratification and carry out a satisfying life.

Setting goals involves developing important decision making. The objectives to be set must be rational and congruent, and above all you must be aware that you can achieve them.

For this reason, this step should be done calmly. Visualize what things you want to achieve and, later, break them down into smaller objectives that you can acquire little by little.

6- Go step by step

When one is fed up with everything, the feeling of being overwhelmed and on edge can lead to the need for immediate global changes.

In fact, when one is not well, what you want is to start being well, and for this the quickest way is usually to change everything that causes discomfort.

However, this perception is usually the element that prevents any modification from being carried out. Changing everything in many cases seems highly complicated, so the vision of everything or nothing tends to make the situation difficult.

For this reason it is important to go step by step. Making a daily change, no matter how small, may be enough to start the path of change and, over time, overcome the current situation.

7- Focus on things you can control

To be able to overcome this type of situation it is essential to focus on things that can be controlled. In fact, if you focus on things that you don't control, your acting ability will be minimal.

Consider changes that depend solely and exclusively on you. Intervene in those elements that you know you can control and you will see how your emotional state will gain consistency and confidence.

8- Invest time in yourself

When you are fed up with everything it is important that you focus a little less on others and pay more attention to yourself. When one is in an extreme situation, their ability to help others is reduced due to their personal state.

For this reason, it is important that you first recover, increase your mood and stabilize your emotional state. To do this, you must invest more time in yourself.

Find moments to relax, de-tension and regain energy. All of us need to stop, rest, and have moments to ourselves. When you do, you will be in a better position to face problems and achieve your personal goals.

9- Look for gratification

Beyond the absence of rest, one of the main elements that gives rise to extreme situations and the feeling of being fed up with everything is the absence of gratification.

When you have a good time, your mood improves. You experience positive emotions, develop optimistic thoughts and develop a state that allows you to get out of the blocking situation.

For this reason, it is important that you find moments each week to do activities that you have fun with and that are capable of providing you with gratification.

10- Find support

Last but not least, it is vital that when you are fed up with everything you seek support.

Don't leave things to yourself or try to make war on your own. Problems are more easily solved if you have people by your side who help you to do it, so seeking support is essential in these types of situations.

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