Do you sometimes feel out of control, overwhelmed or just that you can’t seem to move forward? The summer or rather lack of a summer here in the North Island has created a number of challenges for many of us — maybe all of us — whether physical, mental, emotional, relational and certainly financial.
Have you ever thought about why we experience Groundhog Day? Maybe I’m an odd one out on this. I’m sure that I read a piece by a doctor several years ago about this sort of feeling and why we experience it. Now, I’m certainly no medical man myself, however my recollection of the general theme, was that our reason for thinking that life is being spent on that hamster wheel that I’ve mentioned in previous articles, is because we literally are doing the same thing over and over.
I’m not sure about you, however for me, there seem to be a lot of recurring themes with conversations out there, when speaking with other business owners, industry colleagues, friends or someone I’m standing beside on the side of the kids’ sports field. The hamster wheel is real and so many of us feel like we’re on it.
Last night, when I was doing exactly what I’d been telling myself all lockdown not to do — staying up later for no good reason once the kids had finally got to bed — checking emails, checking the news and getting a head start on today’s work until late into the night. Why? What the heck was I doing? I know just how useless I am without good sleep.
15 more that I've listened to...
Like me, do you guys sometimes get to the end of the day, week or even weekend and think, “Jeepers, what have I actually achieved?” We tend to want to feel on track, a degree of success and fundamentally, we need to have Purpose. Rather than fixating on the future end goal, I think it boils down to the desire to feel that we are ‘Making Progress’. Evidently ‘Progress’ derives from the Latin ‘to walk forward’. So basically, taking steps.