Recharging Your Batteries by Susan Dunn, MA, Personal and Professional Development Coach

TIME: Late February

DILEMMA: The Blahs

This is just the time of year to take a look at that reoccurring problem – how do you keep the passion alive? Because it’s February, you may be thinking of “romance” when I say “passion.” But I mean it in a larger sense. I’m talking about the energy that drives our lives.

This is the time of year when life may look like getting up, shaving, doing the laundry, feeding the dogs, and having the same fights with the same people over the same things. It can be uninviting and uninspiring, a case of “been there, done that, and not too thrilled about the prospect of going there and doing it again.”

Whatever zap of energy we got from the New Year and New Year’s Resolutions has likely worn off. If we’ve dropped our resolutions, there’s a letdown. If we’ve achieved them, there can also be a letdown. I think of the woman who told me once, “I lost the 30 lbs. and still my life isn’t perfect.”

It isn’t about life being perfect, it’s about life BEING. Let’s take a look at that. What the woman meant was that losing 30 lbs. made her look and feel better, and did a lot for her health, but the baby still cried, the secretary still missed the deadline, the traffic still piled up, she still didn’t like her mother-in-law, the dishwasher still needed to be emptied, and she still was unable to streamline her projects at work she way she’d like to.

So how do we recharge our batteries when they’re running low? Here are some tips.

WORK OUT

Putting out energy brings in energy, and the important thing is that this isn’t just physical. Work out MENTALLY by starting a new course, online or on-site. Continual learning throughout life is one of the hallmarks of resilient people. Get in on this early and stay with it.

Work out EMOTIONALLY by taking the focus off yourself, and helping someone else. If you’ve got the blahs and start focusing on that, you can dig yourself into a hole. If you turn outward, toward others, you’ll soon become interested in the world about you and that’s it’s own antidote.

Work out PHYSICALLY by adding to or “upping” your current workout schedule. Many people add pleasant walks this time of year, just to get outside more, to move about more, and to get more sunshine. If you don’t want to go outside, get the movement going inside.

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