The energy reboot for ambitious women
Reality Check
So yeah, work is important to you. It gives you purpose, a sense of fulfilment and a structure to develop and be creative. You probably spend much of your time on the job, educating yourself and staying on top of the latest developments in your professional field.
Lately though you have felt tired. Very tired. Continuously tired. It’s as if your battery just doesn’t charge anymore. On top of that, you’ve been feeling aches and pains in your body which cannot be explained. The inspiration and idealism with which you started your work is long gone. You wanted to make a difference in the world. Now it seems all you do is manage egos, do politics or produce data to feed organizational systems. This is not you! You want your energy back. You want your sense of purpose back.
Recognise any of this?
- You can’t remember the last time you woke up fully energized and ready to seize the day. Instead, you wake up tired and numb.
- You feel chronic and unexplained aches and pains like headaches, lower back pain or stomach pains. You've consulted your doctor a number of times but medical assessments cannot find anything ‘wrong’ with you. Your doctor tells you to ‘rest’ or ‘take it easy’, which frustrates you.
- Work drains you. You feel lethargic and it’s as if a cloud has permanently settled in your brain. At the beginning of every week, you tell yourself: ‘this is the week I am going to crash’, but then you manage to get through it. Without any joy or satisfaction.
- You often wonder: ‘Am I doing enough? Am I doing the right thing?’ You feel guilty towards your employer when you’re parenting or looking after yourself and you feel guilty towards your family when you’re working.
- You long for emotional connection but nowadays conversations with your partner center on the kids’ schedules, who fills the fridge and how to coordinate your busy schedules.
- You lie awake at night asking yourself: How long will I keep this up? What’s wrong with my body? Where am I going with this job, this relationship, this … (fill in the blank).
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein
So how long are you going to keep this up?
If you continue down this path, you will deplete the energy in your battery and end up in a full blown burn out. Being burnt out means being sick. This means you’ll have to take a break from work to go on sick leave. You’ll not be able to take care of your children the way you want to and you’ll never have the same energy levels again, ever. This will affect your career, your family and your personal happiness in life. Your fatigue, your aches and pains are gentle wake up calls. You can wait for the big wake up call, although that one is usually much more dramatic. The choice is yours.
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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