Bad weather, low levels of motivation, the possibility of failure of good resolutions for the new year and days since Christmas: here is the perfect recipe to consider the third Monday in January the saddest day of the year.
Even if not scientifically confirmed, it is indisputable that cold, memories of the recent Christmas holidays and the thoughts that go to those still too far away, not to mention the health emergency and the economic crisis, make us think that during
Blue Monday, that this year is January 18
, life isn't exactly smiling at us.
So here are some proposals to counter the sadness of Blue Monday, but also that of any other day of the year that is not exactly happy, which Fabiana Pavone, psychologist and psychotherapist, has elaborated:
1. Go to sport.
Even a simple walk can be an antidote to sadness
2. Negative people?
No thanks.
Surround yourself with positive people who make you smile.
3. Loneliness can be a resource: we begin to devote time to the most important person in our life: ourselves.
4. Never give up on good intentions.
If the goals set at the beginning of the year begin to falter, then, why not, let's reformulate them.
5. Make way for change.
Let's eliminate what we don't like from our own and work towards a new goal.
Decluttering
is a great starting point to kickstart our phase of change.
Making space in the surrounding environment is synonymous with reordering one's life, which is why decluttering becomes a real
therapeutic practice
.
It starts with freeing room after room, removing all the superfluous that is not needed: objects, clothes and even furniture that are not essential, which allow us to leave free space for fresh thoughts, new ideas, projects and new beginnings.
Curiosity:
analyzing the top ten of the best-selling second-hand products in 2020 on eBay, it emerged that last year the Italians decided to resell for the most part
books: almost 113,000 volumes of second-hand fiction available on the marketplace in 2020 and over 100,000 essays.
Games, comics and graphic novels (almost 88,000) and cell phones (almost 56,500) follow.
And
watches
- over 56,000 - and
clothing items
(over 50,000), without neglecting collectibles: Pokémon (48,600), postcards of Italian landscapes (over 47,000) and vinyls (41,600).
At the top of the ranking of the regions where the most sold on eBay is Lombardy, with over 7 million items, ahead of Lazio (almost 5 million and 200 thousand) and Emilia-Romagna, with almost 4 million products sold.
Reselling the objects we decide to dispose of encourages a sustainable and circular approach:
the purchase of a second-hand object impacts the environment up to 2.5 times less than a new one.
The platform
is committed to reducing carbon emissions by 3 million tons by 2025, also through the promotion of the resale of objects between individuals on the site, which represents an opportunity not only to earn, but above all to give a new life to something which is no longer useful to us and which can make other people happy.