I don’t know about you, but for the last few weeks I’ve run into an energetic brick wall. It happened every year when I was an employee, and it’s happening now that I’m a freelancer.
You’d think that as the southern hemisphere heads towards the summer solstice, my energy levels would be rising. Yet, like clockwork, from mid-to-late November each year, I hit the wall and my body begins pleading with me to “JUST STOP!”
This year (wouldn’t you know it) my energy crunch happened just as I received a new batch of commissioned articles. Researching, interviewing and writing takes a lot of mental and physical energy; a considerable investment of ‘the self’.
I’m using yoga and myotherapy to help keep me going until the articles are complete, but past experience tells me that the body is an unforgiving beast. If you don’t pay attention to its early signals of tiredness/exhaustion, it will scream louder and longer down the track. The body doesn’t care if you have deadlines, need to follow up new leads or chase up invoices. All it knows is that it’s reached its limit, and it wants the mind to pay attention.
Despite knowing this from past experience, I’m asking my body (yet again) to give me another couple of weeks before it conks out. Meanwhile, I’ll do what I can to help it go the distance.
How about you? What do you do when your body calls time out? How are you dealing with the end-of-year energy bust?
There’s always a rush of work on at this time of year too, because everyone wants the job done before the end of the year. And it’s hot, so work is twice as hard.
Yoga is a good one. I fight lack of energy with energy by forcing myself out for a walk, surf or swim. It really does pep me up again.
Nearly there though. Hope you get a well-deserved holiday when all the hard work is done:)
Comment by Annabel Candy, Get In the Hot Spot — 11/12/2009 @ 11:40 am |