trying to get my life back on track

is a bitch. i dont know what to exactly to do or where to start because im such a mess in so many ways. i feel like i can fix things with what im thinking in my mind but its so hard to actually follow what im thinking. each day i tell myself 'today ill start fixing things' but i never do.
its like im in this cycle and sometimes things look better but soon enough they get worse.
its so fucking daunting

 

start by sorting your socks.

 

At some point or another, you just need to do it... If you just keep thinking I'm going to do it, it will never get done... I have similar problems... Once you get started, it should all come together...

 

ya thats true

but ive been trying for so long and im just wondering if this is how its suppose to be, and there is no way out.

blah...ill shut up about this because i could go on and on.

 

I have to make lists for myself. That way the list looks so daunting that I tell myself, "well if I get two things done today, then I have done something rather than sitting around all day feeling like crap." Yep make a list, when you start marking things off you feel so much better.

 

I understand where you are coming from. I finally decided to fix what I thought was wrong with me and my life. I made a list of everything I needed/wanted to do/fix/accomplish, and printed the list out several times and hung it up all around my house. That way it was in my face on a daily basis wherever I turned. Eventually you will get tired of seeing things not checked off on your list, and start doing them.

That is a suggestion of one way you could do things.

 

I think everyone is prone to putting things on the long finger, it's just so much easier than doing things!!

 

thats actually not a bad idea
i do something similar, but it has to do with my work. sometimes, when i have to sit at my desk and work on an essay or project, i make little notes to keep me going and to make sure i dont procrasante.

i definitly should make a list because there are certain things that are very do-able to help me out. sometimes it all seems so simple.....

 

thats a good idea i think i'll do that

 

I still think sock sorting is a good place to start.

 

i know EXACTLY what you mean alex...

 

us alex's are fucked up, arent we??

 

lol, ahh were not so bad, were both really good looking for one...

 

You're lucky that works for you. I, on the other hand, am taking the more extreme approach. I'm giving up free life, and putting 3k miles between me and everything I'm apart of now to live back under parental rule. I really need that boot in my ass to get me through school.

 

in my experience there comes a time when if you KNOW what needs to be done... and you've been thinking about it and knowing it for a while, it's absolutly PAINFUL!! NOT to do anything about it. when you reach that point.... there is only one thing you CAN do or you WILL go nuts!!! that is to point it in action. simple as that.

 

yeah, my life is a mess, all areas of my life are fucked and its easy for people to say get up and do something,its a lot harder to do though. i often take adam's approach though, i tend to run away, but that has stopped working so i am gonna have to do something - perhaps i'll start by sorting out my socks.

 

I think the sock idea is good and so is the list thing.

 

what if your life was never on track to begin with? i dont know, some of you sound like its just so easy, but what if everything wrong with your life arent things that you had any control over in the first place? i dont know how to fix something like that.