4 Steps to Help You Get Back on Track no Matter How Long You’ve Stayed Down

Jennifer E. Idoko
3 min readMar 7, 2022

Have you been feeling down and stuck and ready to try to get back up and move on, again?

Please read!

As humans, one of the common struggles we face is feeling down and shitty especially after something unexpected or terrible has happened to us but do we have to stay down for long?

Are you feeling down or stuck because;

  • You lost money
  • You lost client(s)
  • Your career hasn’t started yet even though you think you’ve been trying hard
  • You lost a job
  • You lost a relationship
  • You faced a very terrible embarrassment that’s your fault
  • Or you actually messed yourself up big time by yourself

It is said that the toughest people are not the people that have never fallen but have fallen yet keep getting up no matter how many times they fall.

I know that this article is common motivation but resist the urge to assume it’s “just another content”, especially if you’re down or you’ve been feeling stuck, and try out the tips provided below.

Are you feeling down and stuck and ready to try to get back up and move on, again?

Please pay keen attention as you read!

  1. It’s time to move on, say it to yourself, and mean it this time. You must have been down for a while which means you’ve sulked all you want and can, which is very important, so, MOVE ON. Tell yourself from within that you’re ready to move on and mean it from the depth of your heart and every fiber in your bone, this time.
  2. Talk to at least 3 people in your life that you honor and respect. Doesn’t matter if it’s the same thing you keep telling each of them. Hear all they have to say to you and let it sink in deeply. Hear at the time they’re telling you, also hear when you’re back alone with yourself — i.e, replay it in your head and let it sink again.
  3. Map out a re-launch/moving-forward plan. Use a strategy that’s worked for you before when you were down or something new entirely. It’s a new dispensation for you anyways. Map this plan realistically and as simple and detailed as possible so that you can see it. For this, you must have to trust yourself and respect yourself like you’re somebody of authority that you respect so that you don’t take that plan with levity because you created it yourself.
  4. Take it one day at a time, in little bits. You may not fully launch out at once but if you continue taking the steps every day, you’ll look back one day and see that you’re actually already back on track and doing way better.

I know these because I am currently at step 4 of getting back on track and I promise you, it’s been cool and steady, it can be cool and steady for you too.

Life is too sensitive to do it alone.

Here’s to becoming a tough person because no matter how many times we fall, we will keep standing up.

Cheers

From someone strongly rooting for you, Jen

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Jennifer E. Idoko

Sharing personal development and growth tips for young adults in their twenties and early 30s.