Wellness Calendar: Sunday 4 February

A pocketful of plan Bs

A plan B is a back-up plan should your first scheme fail. Yet what if plan B also fizzles out – as does C, D and E? What if our wellbeing deteriorates because things keep going wrong for us and we don’t have enough resources to help us bounce back up again?

Many people can think that the world is against them when their life doesn’t go the way they want it to. They can start to spiral into a downward, depressive state, where disappointments occur with increasing frequency.

To stop this from happening, can we have a contingency plan that gives us multiple options and dimensions – more than enough for us to know that there’s always something to rely on at any moment in time?

And can we keep this list on us at all times so that we remember our options when we need them the most?

Here are some examples of the length and breadth of where this list could take us: Treats. Comforts. People. Pets. Locations. Clothes. Games. Objects. Cultural delights. Foods. Routines. Rituals. Sayings. Music. Sounds. Silence. Dance. Movement. Motion. Mental, emotional and physical exercises.

The possibilities are endless.