The areas of our life don't exist in isolation, just as thoughts, feelings and behaviours are intimately
connected, our life domains intersect.
Stress from work or relationships disrupts your sleep.
A friend's support and concern deepen your sense of meaning and your trust in humanity.
Struggles with addiction affect nearly every area of a person's life.
A relaxing weekend increases our productivity at work.
As you think about activities that will help you move toward your goals.
Um, for example, could tending to your domestic responsibilities affect your relationships?
Could eating better make you a more productive worker?
Progress in different areas of your life is likely to be mutually reinforcing work through roadblocks.
Behavioral activation is one of the best supported treatments for depression.
And Borut, because it's so simple and yet that simplicity doesn't make it easy, even when when we
intend to follow the previous steps, there will be times we don't complete our plans.
When that happens, the number one thing to remember is to be compassionate with yourself.
Remember that you're a human and that this work is hard, but of compassion is understanding how our
minds work and creating the conditions that set us up for success.
We can criticize ourselves and try to use sheer force of will to become more active.
But there are strategies that can give us greater leverage to complete our plans.
Let's consider some of the most effective approaches to make sure tasks are rewarding.
A common reason we don't complete our tasks is that they simply don't provide any satisfaction.
If you find you are not getting to the tasks you've set for yourself, think about the incentive that
you have to do them, is the activity worth doing, but you have to be able to find the motivation for
it?
Or is your motivation low because the activity isn't right for you?
Choose substitute activities if you decide a task just isn't rewarding.
For example, maybe you used to love biographies and now you're more drawn to fiction.
Go where your heart leads.