I found that wanting fast results only led to despair. ––the Wealthy Gardener
You’re tired of the struggle. You feel overwhelmed and incapable of achieving your dreams. You see no progress; in fact, you see only a lot of conditions that you don’t want.
And you try to ignore the despair.
Despair can be due to many things. We feel despair when we have false expectations, when we find the journey harder than we expected, when we fall short of our goals, or when we find that all worthy achievement takes longer than we originally imagined.
But what should we do about it?
A quote from Edmund Burke hangs on my wall: “Never despair,” he wrote, “but if you do, work on in despair.” His words remind me that sitting in idleness only intensifies despair, while activity cures it.
Maybe despair is a call to double down our efforts.
Lord Alfred Tennyson advises, “I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.” Misery can be a sign to get moving.
“A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work,” said Geoffrey Norman. Work is easier than worry. And surprisingly, work can alleviate our despair.
–John Soforic, author of The Wealthy Gardener
I agree so much!!!