The Key to getting out of your Depressing Funk

I use the term depression lightly because I know it all to well, we all do. Whether it’s a long term thing, a short term, a week, a month, any period of time. It’s a funk. You feel beside yourself, truly beside your self. Your friends and family are around you, having fun enjoying time, you want to be happy and enjoy it. You can see yourself with the energy you once had and think it could be so easy to just be happy. But it doesn’t happen. You are just there, zoned out and blah. You can picture the whole atmosphere being different if you could just get out of your funk.

It happens. This isn’t just a bad day or two, it’s a drawn out period of time. I’m no doctor. But I have what I believe will help you. Personal Development Books. Usually I say exercise is the key, but exercising is a big step/commitment when you are in a funk. It’s harder to start, so it doesn’t happen. You need something now to get you started with a better mindset. Once out of the funk then exercise can come into play.  

Personal development can change a lot in a person to allow you to grow. Your life revolves around your thoughts. Depression truly is a chemical imbalance in your mind. Doctors and medication can help it, but if you don’t want that to be your path forward; read personal development books.

When you read you turn the wheels in your mind, you take in what your reading and think about it. 

Reading personal development creates thoughts and trains of thought that are in a positive place. It’s simple but effective. Give yourself 10-15 minutes each morning to wake up and read a personal development book. Below are a couple of my favorites. Do it until you finish the book, then read another. You will feel your thoughts change and the depressing funk will slowly lift. Here are 5 books that I recommend, but you can easily do a quick search on Amazon for some.

The Miracle Morning

The Power of Habit

Girl, Stop Apologizing

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Compound Effect

Let it be that simple, let it begin with just buying a personal development book and giving yourself a few minutes each day to read it. It won’t be easy to start, you’ll literally put off reading the book to sleep instead. But force yourself to do it each day. It will help you.