1. Breathe

When you’re struggling, problems, stress, and anxiety can easily pile up causing you to feel so overwhelmed and paralyzed. In moments like this, it’s so important to slow down, press pause, and just allow yourself to breathe.

Take a deep breath with me. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths.

Breathe in. Breathe in hope, strength, and happiness.

Breathe out. Breathe out worry, anxiety, and stress.

2. Create A List and Make A Plan

When you’re struggling in life, facing so many problems at once can easily paralyze you. It can easily make you believe that overcoming your struggles and improving your life is just too impossible.

One thing that really helped me fight the feeling of overwhelm and helped alleviate my stress was to create a list of the things that I needed to do, what my goals were and what actions I needed to take to achieve those goals.

First, you must figure out where you want to be in your life. Determine your priorities, and the goals you want to achieve. Then make a list of all the things that you need to do to achieve your goals and align your actions with your priorities.

Remember it also helps to break down big tasks into smaller tasks to help you avoid stress and procrastination.

3. Remember That You Are Good Enough

When you’re struggling, it’s so easy to let yourself believe that you are not good enough to turn your life around. It’s easy to start believing that you are not worthy of happiness and love.

It’s important to remind yourself that your mistakes don’t diminish your value. You are enough just as you are now. We all make mistakes. We all fail and make bad decisions. Your struggles don’t define you.

You are capable and good enough to overcome these struggles and use them to grow into a wiser and stronger person.

4. Avoid Complaining (All The Time)

When you are going through so many struggles, it’s easy to let yourself focus on all the bad things. I mean, when everything around you is just falling apart, sometimes it’s impossible not to complain about all of it.

Don’t get me wrong. Complaining can be a good thing. It can be therapeutic and it can help you vent out and release stress.

But the problem starts when you allow yourself to complain about every little thing. I was guilty of this too. I complained about every little problem, every little mishap, and every little inconvenience.

Doing this did not make things easier. It just added more fuel to my struggles in life. It just made me feel so much worse.

Complaining too much is not only causing you more stress but it is also reframing your mind to only focus on all the bad and negative things.

5. Take Responsibility 

When struggling in life, it’s so easy to pass on the blame. To blame other people for all the bad things that are happening to our lives. It’s so easy to blame them for all the pain and the struggles that we are facing.

This is what I did too. For the longest time, I’ve blamed others for all the problems and pain that I’ve experienced.

I thought that this was helping but it turns out, it wasn’t. In fact, doing this was only keeping me from taking responsibility for my choices and decisions. Therefore, it only kept me stuck and unable to take the action needed to change my life and overcome my struggles.

Remember you have the choice to stay stuck or start taking responsibility to help you move forward, heal and improve your life for the better.