Coming Back

I thought of this post idea a few weeks back, however, I wanted to prove something to myself before I posted it. You see, after posting Ego I didn't post the later week, which is normal, now and then I take a break. After coming back, though, I was having trouble thinking of ideas. I posted Fernds and posted Meaning and at this point I was struggling to find a topic which usually pops up into my head somewhere throughout the week, but this time I was finding a topic on Friday afternoon. I pulled out my notebook, and wrote down this idea, "Coming Back." Which I wrote down, and then wrote down simply to prove to myself that I could. Anyways, this will be a shorter post in which I'll be detailing what may cause the lack of motivation when coming back to something and how to effectively use your break.

If you take a break from something and come back enervated instead of energized two things can be at play. Firstly, you might hate the thing that you're coming back to; if you took a vacation from your 9 to 5 job and you're coming back, and you really don't want to. You should really quit your job, and do something that makes you happy, because whatever you're doing right now isn't cutting it. You shouldn't be dreading coming back to what you were doing before. If you're not dreading coming back to what you're doing, but your motivation is lacking, something else is at play. You love what you're doing, however, you might be lacking ideas. If there are other things occupying your mind and preventing you from thinking about the thing you want to do, then you might have less interest, as when you come back you may be stressed. Another possibility is that to do what you want to do, there are things you have to do that you don't enjoy. The details that make what you're doing run, but not the fun part. If you focus on the things you don't enjoy doing, it'll make it harder to focus on what you do enjoy doing. The human is wired in a way in which negativity is four times as prominent as positivity. To fix this, simply focus on the fun part, the part you enjoy, the part you love. After you do that, energy will return to your veins.

When you take a break. Take that break to refuel you. It's not a problem if you're taking a break to get more energy, to build more ideas, you have to give your car up for a bit to upgrade it, turn it off to put gas in it. If you're fueling, then your breaks will end in you excited to go back to doing what you were doing. If you're taking a vacation, then, as said from Joel Salatin, "if you ever need a break from your work, never come back." To make your breaks effective, keep thinking about your work: ways to make it more efficient, ideas if you're a creative, how to do. As long as you don't do it and think these things, you will be fueling your drive and love for your work more and more until you can come back.

With all of that said, I'll be ending it there, sorry for the short post, but I felt that's all it took to get my point across and adding any more would be forcing something. I hope this helped tell you why you might be enervated from coming back to your work and how to effectively use your breaks. I hope you enjoyed this shorter post, have a wonderful week, I'll see you the next, peace.

"If you ever need a break from your work, never come back." - Joel Salatin