How to bounce back from feeling bad quickly to get back to language learning and other important things

Have you felt sad or mildly depressed such that you can’t get anything useful done for hours or days or even weeks?

I felt pretty stressed about a particular project and I was feeling very down from around 7 pm today, it wasn’t until around 11:30 pm that I felt fairly okay again. I played one hour of monopoly on my mobile, I went for a slow jog while listening to Audible and I took a slow shower while listening to Tony Robbins.

I accept that having sad times is part of the deal called Life, being a Lean fanatic, I feel that this “waste” can be reduced if not eliminated, so, I decided to write a little SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) as an Evernote entry to guide myself to recover faster next.

Here is the entry I wrote:

1. shower
2. go for a jog
3. listen to Tony Robbins
4. listen to Jim Rohn
5. meditate using the Headspace app
6. have a cup of tea
7. have a cup of coffee
8. have a cup of hot chocolate
9. write a journal entry
10. do a MindSweep
11. scan some paper to feel productive
12. tidy my room to feel productive
13. change my physiology
14. stand with my back against the wall
15. play a game on my phone such as Monopoly

To gamify this, I decided to track my recovery time in a Google Sheets.

I hope that this short post gives you some ideas to improve your “recovery time” too. Of course, to state the obvious, if the sadness/depression persists, do speak with friends and family and/or even seek professional help.