You suddenly wake up in the middle of the night gasping for air, drenched in cold sweat. You are breathing heavily and your chest tightens. Then it hits you – you have no clue what you are doing with your life! “Am I in a crisis? What have I done?” as you interrogate yourself.
Crisis can hit you anytime. It doesn’t need to be mid-life or quarter-life. It is whenever-life. It starts when you first recognise it and it took me quite a while. I was in my late twenties. I had a stable job, decent pay, nice office and (mostly) pleasant colleagues. Yet I was tossing and turning, waking up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep well. This went on for a few years, until one morning I jumped out of bed feeling very frustrated by everything. It was only then that I took a long hard look at my life and was shocked to discover that my life wasn’t working.
Be quicker than me. The sooner you are aware, change can begin earlier. Look into each of these areas of your life and examine them:
PROFESSIONAL
How do you feel about having to go to work everyday? Do you feel psyched up or pulled down? If you feel heavy as you are walking from the train station to the office, you know that there is something about work that you dread. Is it the job tasks you have to do? Is it your peers? Is it your seniors? Is it your boss? Write down exactly how you feel about each aspect of your work life and you will know exactly how your work is making you feel.
EMOTIONAL
When you are on the train, walking back home or just browsing at the mall, pause at any random moment and state your current mood, “I am feeling relaxed now” or “I am feeling lonely now”. Do this a few times at different situations and you will notice your typical emotional pattern starts to form. Regardless of what that pattern is, just acknowledge it as it is with no judgements.
MENTAL
Choose a night, any night. Before you go to sleep, write down what you have been thinking about most of the day – what were the majority of your thoughts about? List them out. Beside each thought, indicate if it was something joyful or stressful. Tally up. Which type of thought do you have more?
PHYSICAL
Stand in front of a mirror, preferably a full-length one. How do you feel about the person you see? What would you like to say to him or her? What is it about this person that you can’t stand? Just recognise it first.
SPIRITUAL
Are you contented with your own answers about why you are here and whom put you here? Great if you are. If you are not, it is okay too. These are big questions with differing model answers. If you feel disturbed by this, identify exactly what about this that is making you feel confused and bothered about.
WHAT NEXT?
Now that you have identified how you are faring in each of these areas, how do you think you are faring overall? Do you have issues in more than two aspects? It is perfectly fine if you do. The first step to change is awareness.
How long do you need to stay in a crisis for? It depends on you – on your willingness to change and how long it takes before you take action.
Image credit: http://fortune.com/2016/07/20/stress-tips-business-leaders-motivation/
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