I recently took a family vacation to Disney World and had an amazing time. It was non stop action for 4.5 days. Lots of walking, riding rides, eating, standing in lines and LOTS of people.
There were 14 of us, 3 kids and 11 adults, on this vacation and in the entire time we were there, there was only one small meltdown on the day we left. . While I tried to contain myself, 4:30am is not when I am at my best 🙂
During our stay we were all able to go, go, go because we were having such a great time. We were experiencing so much joy that we hardly even noticed how worn down we were becoming.
It wasn’t until we got home that we ALL realized that we were simply exhausted. While meeting with my coach the following week she said “you sound fatigued”. Because I practice regular self care, fatigue is not something that I experience very often but I sure experienced it after vacation!
Fatigue is not a bad thing IF full recovery is accomplished as well. I personally prefer to have a great balance of expending energy and fully recharging my batteries. I am at my best in all that I do when I schedule in one day each week of total down time (naps and all).
The coaching points are…
1. When you love what you are doing you have more energy and stamina than when you don’t love what you’re doing.
2. When you are experiencing great joy in something, be sure to build in self care moments so that fatigue does not occur often.
What and how frequent of recovery methods do you want to build into your schedule for your body and mind?
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