You never have enough time
- Do you wake up tired every day? Do you barely turn in work by the deadline? Don't you have time to spend with your friends? Don't you have more time to spend with your family? Don't you have time for yourself?
Are you addicted to your own adrenaline?
- Is it difficult for you to focus on what you are doing for a long period of time? Are you late where you are going? Are you full of commitments? Do you promise more than you can fulfill? Do you put yourself in an emergency situation at all times?
If you answered yes to more than one question - you are probably addicted to your own adrenaline rush.
Contemporary life leads us to be pressured with projects, goals, ideas, could, should, commitments, concerns and obligations. And from there to the addiction of our own adrenaline. Who can live a full life this way?
In prehistoric times it was important for man to create the energy source that adrenaline provides in order to defend himself by fighting or escaping. But this chemical reaction in our bodies was not created to be used every day to help us cope with our lives.
What causes adrenaline? Simply fear, it remains the same as in the pre-story. When the adrenaline is triggered initially it gives us the feeling of great energy and in the end it leaves us totally exhausted. Now fear that times have changed, fear of the mammoth has become fear of lack of time, money or energy. But think about it, can you survive without these three elements?
Start noticing when you're stressed. Are you pressured because you're going to be late, half an hour, an hour? Do you have to fulfill duties, appointments, meetings? If so, fear of time constraints arises.
Or maybe it is the lack of money, are you going to meet all the needs and commitments made? Society and advertising make us provoke ourselves from so many things, are you going to be able to maintain those demands and status?
Or perhaps it is the lack of energy, which can also be conceived as a lack of capacity.
It may be one or the other, but for how long can you continue in this rhythm?
Breaking the cycle
The solution to the lack of time, money or energy is to create reserves of these three elements and establish limits around them.
Lack of time, your solution:
- Clarify what you don't have time for. Describe the priorities according to what is important to you and thus obtain clarity of values. Find ways to quickly alleviate the feeling of overwhelm and thus open up space for background work. Ask yourself What should I remove from my list? Stop working at 5 or 6 PM and on weekends. Promise less and deliver more than Be realistic in times of doing a job. Arrive 10 minutes early for meetings.
Lack of money, your solution:
- Set a realistic budget. Include paying yourself first, a minimum of 10% for the savings account. Resist the temptation to buy things you don't need, even if they're on sale, ask yourself the following question: Do I need it or do I need it? No? Reduce your debt until you eliminate it.
Lack of energy, your solution:
- Take a vacation or start exercising to restore your energy. Write everything that is floating in your head, allow the paper to hold it and free your body and mind from unfinished business to things you want to change. Be clear on the limits, What you are allowing and learn when to say no Check what activities you can delegate to other people.
When you remove the adrenaline from your life you return to be in contact with yourself, with your personal values, your feelings and your spirit, which simply have not been present because you have been very busy.
