Fog makes it hard for us to see very far in front of us. Sometimes the fog can be light, and sometimes the fog is so dense you can’t see a foot in front of you. Brain Fog is just like fog in the forecast. Sometimes the weatherman tells us that the fog can be dangerous to drive in, and sometimes our brain has “brain fog,” so dense that we can’t function as well as we would like to.

My brain has been in total “brain fog.” I am going to be a tad bit too honest for some people, but I hardly ever do research on topics because I am a firm believer in writing from experience, not from someone else’s experience through research, but experience first had from people I know and from what I have experienced. I told my girlfriend, Patty, about my brain fog and I just couldn’t seem to write. Patty simply said to me, “write about your brain fog.” I just looked at her and thought, “why not,” everyone experiences brain fog throughout life.

I believe brain fog happens when we are overwhelmed with life and/or the pressures we put on ourselves. I am in the midst of starting a new part-time job, in the middle of buying a home, starting my own practice, continuing education, writing a book, and starting a Podcast. My brain is overloaded just like fog, which makes it hard to see which direction to go. My brain was fogged over with so much going on in my life. Everything in my thought process, “the fog” was making my brain hard to function because it was overwhelmed with so much going on. My brain needed me to help it sort everything out.

When we have so many exciting things we want to achieve, our first step should be to sit back and plan them out, instead of just flying by the seat of our pants to achieve all our hopes and dreams the minute we think of them. Yes, I’m totally excited about where my life is headed, but I realized that the fog in my head was because I was trying to accomplish so many things at one time. What I needed to do was write down my plan and take the necessary steps to succeed without the stress of brain fog.

I’m so grateful for Patty telling me to write about Brain Fog. The lesson I learned from my brain fog is… Having exciting things happening in your life is beyond joyful and exciting, trying to do everything you want in a day is unrealistic (a tad exaggerated, but you get the point). I have talked so much about making lists and breaking them down into tangible measurements but, my excitement for my goals overtook the process I believe in. I needed to slow down to achieve my dreams and desires while teaching myself patience and accountability to succeed in a slow and steady pace helping to let the sun shine in my brain instead of the fog.

When we plan out our goals with the steps to achieve them, we make a clear (letting the sun in) path in our brain instead of just winging everything at one time without a path, which makes seeing (the fog) our end goal difficult because we don’t know which direction to go.

When you feel you have no direction, take a moment and write down everything that is going on in your life and what you can do to put some things on the back burner for a later date, and map out what you can do to accomplish what needs to be done first within a timeframe. We all want to achieve all of our dreams quickly, but reality is….To achieve our dreams in a healthy manner, we need to take our time and grow with the process of achieving life goals and ambitions without our brain becoming fogged.

I am going to master my new part-time job, continue to work on my blog, close on my house in two weeks. Once the house closes, I will finish my continuing education, finish getting my practice off the ground after I finish school , and then I will start my Podcast while finishing my book.

Thank you Patty for your inspiration and honesty.

Trust the Journey and Life Lessons

Alexis

Alexis Life Coach Inner Abilities LLC

Holistic Life Coach & Counseling