Thought Bubble: Feeling sad, frustrated or bored? Learn something new. Anything new. It doesn’t have to make money or even make sense. It just needs to bring you into a different direction then you were in before. When you plant a new flower tree this creates a whole new world with new experiences that weren’t there before.
Meditation: Sit quietly, breathe in and out three times. Relax and focus on what might help you to feel joy. Can you go back to childhood and experience some special moments? What did these moments entail? Imagine you can grab one element from that magic moment and bring it to your present life.
Discussion: Learning something new is a tactic to bust many negative emotions. It also can keep you on a good even path and it can open up doorways where there were none before. For instance, I am learning a foreign language. Initially I wanted to travel to the country that speaks the language. However, things change and I am content to just learn the language. The language happens to be spoken in the country that my ancestors came from. A bonus, learning it has educated me on certain nuances I had observed in older family members that I didn’t understand. I do understand now because I started learning the language.
In order to learn anything you need to do it. If you want to garden, draw, create art, 3d printing, fish, fix a car, ski, swim, bake or cook, get better at math and so on. You need to start doing this thing. With math, get yourself a book of math equations with answers in the back of the book. Just start doing the math questions. When you get stuck, get another book to help you out. Oh yes, you can use the internet but you could get distracted. Just do math problems everyday and you will find yourself getting better at it. The same goes for anything new you might try. Repetition, is very important.
Feedback from others is not suggested during these early stages of learning something new.
Desire + Expectation + Action = Success
