Pressure builds and keeps on building. That’ just the way that life is. The more you do, the more you have to worry about and the more reactive and proactive you have to become to keep everything going at the same time.
More than once in a while things will blow up. I think it’s inevitable. Then of course you have to scramble to assess the damage and to try to fix things. Nothing is ever easy.
In the course of all of this effort you might suddenly find that you’re not feeling all that great. Maybe one morning you will wake up and you can’t quite pin it down but you know you’re not up to 100%. The rest of your day is thrown off by this and over the next few days and weeks you start going downhill.
This type of generalized fatigue is common. It’s the sort of thing that can’t be pinned down and will slowly but surely seep in and affect all aspects of your life.
So what can be done? You obviously have to address this before you can continue on with any of your other activities. But you can’t just stop everything. Luckily you don’t have to.
The problem lies in the way you live your life and how you are living your life and the solution is also found there. Not in one aspect of your life or one activity but in all of it.
Stopping one activity or one part of your life will not get rid of your fatigue. I mean maybe one part may be more directly responsible than others but I think it has to do with your life as a whole. You have to modify everything you do to cure this disease.
So in no particular order.
Exercise – Maybe it’s time to cut down one part of your exercise regimen or change it up so you focus on another exercise. Then again maybe you’ve not been getting enough exercise. Add up all your weekly exercise hours and think to yourself “Is this too much or not enough?”
Diet – We all eat crap. Sometimes it’s unavoidable. You get invited out to too many meals with clients or family or friends. Sometimes we indulge in a little treat and before you know it that treat becomes a regular meal. Sometimes you find yourself eating “lunch” at 3PM and dinner at 10PM. Try to exercise a little diet discipline. On the other hand eating the same healthy foods all the time may make your system acclimated to a certain energy level. Shake up your routine.
Work – The 40 hour work week is a poor joke to those who want to get ahead. But 80 or even 100 hour weeks? Come on! Realize that there are only 168 hours in a week. At some point in each day the line has to be drawn and that line cannot be crossed for anything.
Other work – You may have some outside interests or some other venture going on outside of work. The same advice from above applies. Remember that this was supposed to be a side project not the main focus of your life. Treat it accordingly
Personal life – The main problem here is lending too much weight to this aspect of life. Sometimes you may have a problem in this aspect of your life and this bleeds over into other parts of your life. You have to either address this problem or compartmentalize it. Although I don’t advise doing the latter too much as it will inevitably escape out. The other problem concerning personal life is that sometimes you don’t have one. Focusing on work or exercise too much will over time lead to a hypnotic like state where you really don’t what you’re doing. Break up the monotony. Take time to do something pointless just for the sake of doing something pointless. See some friends, talk to complete strangers. Get another point of view in your life.
None of these suggestions will work on their own. Rather it will be a combination of efforts in several different fields at various levels of intensity all working in concert to keep you balanced and working at the optimum level of efficiency. There’s no one solution or one single therapy that will work universally. What worked last year may not work this year.
All that I can advise is to keep vigilant and constantly reassess your personal needs with relation to your life.
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