It’s really easy to get caught up in your own head and make yourself believe that you aren’t doing well. Everyday might feel like a struggle, you might wonder why you’re here and what you are supposed to be doing. However, I promise you that you are doing better than you think and here is how you know.

You’re always questioning yourself.

You’re always wondering if you are doing the right thing, making the right choices and doing the most perfect of the perfect things. Curiosity and questioning are signs of intelligence and questioning yourself means you are self-aware of aspects in your life and you are open to growth.

Someone broke your heart into a million tiny pieces.

Even with a broken heart, you love so hard. You are capable of loving and you are capable of being loved. Just because it didn’t work out with someone doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance at love again.

You have a job and/or you’re in school.

Even if you don’t love your job or are not sure about your major, you are trying and you are rocking it. Maybe it doesn’t look the way you want it to, but you are taking an active approach on being independent.

You’re not content with your life.

Uneasy feelings keep you awake at night, and the urge to be in a different place is real. These are the feelings you have to motivate you to make whatever changes you need to in your life. You have the courage to keep working.

You have one or two close friends.

Having several friends and looking amazing on Instagram is nice, but if you have someone in your life who you can talk to at 4 a.m. and they actually understand you as a person, you are lucky.

You’re working towards a goal.

Even if your dreams are years away, working toward a goal by going to school, or working and getting experience, is progress, and you’re making it farther than a lot of people thought you could.

You’re aware of what should change in your life.

Even if some aspects are out of your control at this very moment, you know what needs to change and you are thinking of ways to change them. This mindset is exactly what you need to keep moving forward.

You have lost relationships.

Whether these relationships were healthy or toxic, growing away and growing toward people means you are growing.

You have a roof over your head, clothes in your closet, and food in your cupboards and a place to sleep.

Not only having these things, but a surplus of these things means you’re doing well. Even if you don’t fine dine every night, wear brand names and live in a mansion, if you have a place to take a quiet nap and a sweatshirt to wear in the chilly autumn days, you are doing amazing.

You paid your bills this month.

One-month down is more time you have to relax until your bills are paid again. When your bills are paid you know that you have a stable source of money to rely on, and providing stability for yourself is one way you are doing better than you think you are.

You’ve been to hell and back.

You’re a fighter. You’ve been through some ugly crap in your life time, probably in the last couple months or years, but yet – here you are, fighting again. You look at challenges and yes you may dread them, but you’ve faced things you didn’t think you’d make it through and you came out to the other side.