Feeling drained, worn out, or stretched too thin?
Yeah, me too.
I like feeling tired. 'Tired' usually means that I have done something productive. 'Tired' is the feeling I get after writing a few articles and finishing a project. 'Tired' is the feeling I get after rearranging my business plans. 'Tired' is the feeling i get after running through my favorite books. I like tired.
I even like sore. 'Sore' is a great feeling. I’ve started jogging/walking (I’m so out of shape) twice a week and it's fantastic feeling sore. I know I've done something. I can feel my muscles working. Sore is worth feeling.
But yesterday, actually the whole of this week, I felt ‘drained’. 'Drained' never follows anything good. 'Drained' happens when I’ve been trying to do something productive for too long. I just put more and more energy into an endeavor and I come up short. 'Drained' is usually accompanied by feelings of uselessness.
And related to 'drained' is my good friend worn out. 'Worn out' happens to me far too often. 'Worn out' happens when I’ve done more productive things than I should have. Yeah, it's nice to get work done early, but after a while, a load of worksheets, and some reading, i just feel 'worn out'. 'Tired' cubed. Or more.
Then of course, ‘stretched thin’; my favorite. I have a fuzzy understanding of my limits, and 'stretched thin' is a common companion. Sometimes, I just have too many different things to do. 'Stretched thin' doesn’t often happen with a lot of work, or a lot of excels, or projects. I can orient myself to focus in one of those directions if I need to. 'Stretched thin' happens when I have a lot of work and a lot of excels and a lot of projects and a lot of sideline planning to be done. Most of you here know that I work four jobs and with the multiple things that I need to do simultaneously, I can't orient myself in any direction.
I have a mental list of things that I need to do soon. I need to write them down and sort through them. Hopefully, at the end of the day, I’ll only feel 'tired'.
Yeah, me too.
I like feeling tired. 'Tired' usually means that I have done something productive. 'Tired' is the feeling I get after writing a few articles and finishing a project. 'Tired' is the feeling I get after rearranging my business plans. 'Tired' is the feeling i get after running through my favorite books. I like tired.
I even like sore. 'Sore' is a great feeling. I’ve started jogging/walking (I’m so out of shape) twice a week and it's fantastic feeling sore. I know I've done something. I can feel my muscles working. Sore is worth feeling.
But yesterday, actually the whole of this week, I felt ‘drained’. 'Drained' never follows anything good. 'Drained' happens when I’ve been trying to do something productive for too long. I just put more and more energy into an endeavor and I come up short. 'Drained' is usually accompanied by feelings of uselessness.
And related to 'drained' is my good friend worn out. 'Worn out' happens to me far too often. 'Worn out' happens when I’ve done more productive things than I should have. Yeah, it's nice to get work done early, but after a while, a load of worksheets, and some reading, i just feel 'worn out'. 'Tired' cubed. Or more.
Then of course, ‘stretched thin’; my favorite. I have a fuzzy understanding of my limits, and 'stretched thin' is a common companion. Sometimes, I just have too many different things to do. 'Stretched thin' doesn’t often happen with a lot of work, or a lot of excels, or projects. I can orient myself to focus in one of those directions if I need to. 'Stretched thin' happens when I have a lot of work and a lot of excels and a lot of projects and a lot of sideline planning to be done. Most of you here know that I work four jobs and with the multiple things that I need to do simultaneously, I can't orient myself in any direction.
I have a mental list of things that I need to do soon. I need to write them down and sort through them. Hopefully, at the end of the day, I’ll only feel 'tired'.
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