Staying Motivated When You're Ready to CollapseBy Lilian Sue [Health & Your Life]
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How can taking the initiative help you when you’re running on empty? Lilian Sue gives a few tips on how to stay driven when you’re tired.  After writing more than a few articles on relationships and how to deal with a significant other, I realized that I was overlooking a really crucial component in life. Our relationships to work and our hobbies affect every other section of life. If stress consumes your life at the office, and you are unable to find the motivation to get up in the morning, you can bet that the rest of your life will suffer right along with your job performance.The same can also be said if you have a lot on the go. Personally, juggling work with freelance projects and a social life can be demanding and, at times, I rarely remember what day it is. It comes down to trying to stay organized and prioritize which needs at the office and which needs at home take most precedence. Most importantly, however, there will come a point where you’re just ready to collapse. Inevitably, I end up taking on too much at one time and would much rather just fall into bed and sleep for a few days, if only to get some peace from all the tasks. What I find helpful though, is doing some serious self examination and discovery, because chances are you’ll find out why you started doing the job in the first place. With a little reflection, you can reignite waning passions for your ambitions. Take Initiative If there is one thing that I learned at an early age it is this: if you’re not proactive, no one else is going to do it for you. It is one of the driving forces behind my self-directed hunt to find suitable work experience before I graduate from university. Although I currently have a full-time temporary position, I am still constantly on the lookout for new opportunities, for new chances to network with different people and to gain the experience to utilize my skills. It’s not to say that I don’t have help; it's just that I am conscious of the fact that that help, in the form of my co-operative education advisors, is not only limited to me. Moreover, only I know what appeals to me best in a job and what sort of experience I’m looking to obtain. Look to Those Who Inspired You One of the elements that drives my initiative is looking to those who inspired me to continue to write in spite of both the difficulties financially and with breaking into the advertising industry. In my pep talks to myself, I tell myself that I honestly have no excuse to give up on my dreams, no matter how difficult it is. In times when I felt defeated, beaten and depressed because all of my initiative wasn’t yielding results and I contemplated giving up, I was reminded of my closest friends and of my first love, all of whom battled insurmountable, painful and sometimes even deadly odds to achieve their dreams. |
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