1% Thursday: Accomplish Something
Just what you need, right? Someone else to nag you, to tell you you’re not doing enough.
Well, relax. I’m not here today to tell you to do more. Maybe you need to do less – rest on a regular basis. But you’re getting me off-topic.
What I’m suggesting today is that accomplishing something can be therapeutic. Even when you have a headache, or are in the middle of a migraine attack, feeling like you can still do something really can help.
I know what you’re thinking – you don’t know what my attacks are like!!!
You’re right, I don’t. And this tip isn’t for everybody, and it certainly isn’t for every attack (trust me, I know what it’s like to not be able to do anything).
But this week I want you to at least think about what you might be able to accomplish at various stages of a headache or migraine attack. This includes "recovery time". Could you do a mindless task mop the floor)? Or a low-energy task (write a poem)? Maybe even a senseless task (finish the next level of PacMan – sound off)?
The point is not to do more, or be particularly efficient at any stage of the attack. The point is to be able to do something small, even if it’s just to remind you that you’re alive.
Don’t force yourself, don’t make promises that you’ll do this-and-that next time you have a headache or migraine attack. Just have a short mental list of ideas. You might find it helpful to pull one idea out and try it one day.
What is 1% Thursday?
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Every Thursday at Headache and Migraine News (weather permitting) we’ll talk about one measurable, practical thing we can do to make our lives just 1% better. Usually it will be something very easy, sometimes it will be a challenge. Let us know if you try it, or share an idea of your own – and maybe a year from now we’ll see that things have really changed for the better!
10 July 2010 @ 4:53 pm
I bought two pots of roses last Thursday and was planning to plant them on a new flower bed. But as we reached home after the purchase, there came the attack. But yes, I summoned the strength to dig two holes last Friday evening and planted the plants. I hope they will give me lots of flowers as my reward.
THERE!
10 July 2010 @ 5:24 pm
Nice work! 🙂 I’m sure they’ll be worth it!
21 July 2010 @ 11:29 am
I make paper mache objects .. it is somethig i can work on for 5 mins or 5 hours.. I can walk away and lay down for awhile or for two months ! I always have something going
23 July 2010 @ 8:31 am
We really have to have something going or else we will just degenerate…I can only look at my antique chair restoration project for the last 10 months; my embroidery project for the last 6 years and all other projects that are just hidden or tucked away in some places. I hope that one day, this migraine will be finished with me and I’ll pick up my hobbies again.