I should be more excited....

[BookstoreEscapee]

So I posted a couple weeks ago about looking into buying a condo...my lease is up at the end of November and neither of us wants to stay here (well, Roomie wants to get a 1 bedroom in the complex but she wants her own place and so do I). I don't want to stay here, though (if I'm gonna move I may as well try to improve my commute; besides, I've grown to hate this place muchly).

So anyway...the prospect has me a tad (lot) overwhelmed. I should be more excited about looking for a place but when I try to sit down and do something about it I just get so tangled up in my head and I want to cry. I don't really have a place I want to be in, I don't have a lot of friends around here and there's no one I can look to and say I want to be in the area they are or anything like that. I don't know the area where I work very well. I know all the things I should do to start figuring that out...drive around, draw a circle on a map and look up the towns that fall in it...it's just my head is in the wrong place for all this. My biggest fear is that I'll end up somewhere that I'm miserable and lonely and feeling like I've made a huge mistake.

So how do I get into the right frame of mind where I can look at this as something exciting and good?

[taxguykarl]

So how do I get into the right frame of mind where I can look at this as something exciting and good?

Actually keeping a level head is your best bet. Don't get overly emotional or you'll lose yourself in details.

[NotMyProblem]

My coach strongly recommended I drop "should" from my vocabulary.....

I have a tendency to get easily overwhelmed and then nothing gets done. So I take a deep breath or ten and break tasks into smaller steps, attempting not to get sidetracked...

Have also learned that sometimes faking feeling positive stops being an act after awhile & I start to actually feel positive; sometimes it helps to remind myself of the positives .....