Just had the loveliest and most tranquil holiday I have ever had in the Seychelles. Absolutely beautiful and my first on a tropical island. Even went to the beach where they filmed the Bounty advert! Two weeks of blazing sunshine, white sandy beaches, beautiful clear blue ocean framed by palm trees and local exotic birds.
And now I am back in London having only arrived a couple of days ago, thinking I need to ‘get back to the grindstone’ of daily life, work and sardine-can commuting. At this moment, it all feels a bit overwhelming and that it’s all getting me down. So what to do about it? How can I turn this into something good? An opportunity?
I remember being so excited in the weeks building up to this holiday. So maybe I could arrange something else to look forward to? I love visiting new places and recently went to Whitstable to mooch around and had fish and chips on the beach at sunset. Not as grand or exotic as a tropical island perhaps but I had the loveliest time nevertheless.
What are you looking forward to doing? It doesn’t have to be fundamentally reinventing your life with a grand gesture. It just needs to be something. An evening class? A weekend away? Seeing friends or family? Sitting in the garden reading that book that’s been lying on the bedside table for weeks? Your something could also of course be taking a trip around the world or moving to another country if that is what you really want to do.
It may have been a few weeks ago now, but the thousands of runners in the London Marathon could only do what they did because they had something to look forward to. The finish line. Some of them may have spent time visualising themselves crossing the line, while others may have constantly pushed themselves to finish by repeating something motivating like ‘I can do this!’ Whatever they did when they ran their race their own way, they looked forward to achieving their own goal. And to knowing that they had set their mind to something and achieved it. However painfully it may have been at times.
