Seize the day now and block off the weekend so that you can get some time with zero commitments to recharge your batteries. Speak with your spouse now. Let your spouse know what your plans are and ask your spouse what is going to come up this weekend that is going to get in the way of you taking some time off. This is a time to be selfish in a healthy way versus selfless and allowing everything to continue to come at you to the point where you are exhausted. Canadian Thanksgiving is just around the corner and if you don’t do it this weekend then when will you do it? The outcome of taking the weekend is a renewed joy for life and work. The consequences of not doing it are exhaustion.
Speaking from experience, from listening to clients seven hours a day and sometimes four days a week with clients sharing their joy and their pain … A lot of energy goes out and at the same time a lot of energy is absorbed. I have joked in the past, after absorbing a good dose of client challenges … “Who’s negative energy is this anyway?” There are times when I feel so heavy from having absorbed what clients experience that I can’t differentiate and separate myself from the energy. I need time off.
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