Isaiah Morehead Counseling PLLC

Everyone has goals, and I've noticed a startling number of my clients, or people I have worked with struggle to initiate this process. I have found that often they get mired in the big picture, or knowing where they want to be, but struggle to do initiate anything. They try to jump from point "A" to "Z." They're thinking ahead, which isn't all bad, but give up focusing on tasks at hand.

What I found helpful is breaking things down, writing out tasks, and having a respect for gradual improvement over time. Lots of people focus more on the results and outcomes, than the effort they put in, so they put things off until they need to do them. Despite this high pressure work style often producing results, it's high stakes, and is not sustainable long-term.

Instead, focus on building the small victories (they add up over time), view failures as opportunities to improve, and reach out to people who have more expertise than you when you get stuck. Life is hard enough without putting yourself down.

I always tell my clients that anger is always valid, but it's almost never valid. Often times people can wonder whether anger is a learned of innate, good or bad. But people's opinions and views of anger and how they end up dealing with it varies from person to person. It's helpful to understand that aggression is innate, and much like resilience, learning how to integrate it is a learned skill.

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