Too often we tried to push our way through when thing gets tough, spending ever more time and energy with diminishing return.
It usually doesn’t work but the mind tricks us in such a way that we think it does. Everything then spiral down to a total burn out.
I fell into this trap recently. Things wasn’t going well and I was pinned down by depressive thoughts.
What we need is a distruptive break. Accept the inability to breakthrough and totally get away from it all. Do something different to combat the depressive mood. Realise that in the greater scheme of things, that inability to breakthrough is really insignificant.
That’s exactly what I did last week. I took a break, went for a trip to Taipei and attended a canoepolo coaching course. A refreshing change, doing something I like and missed.
With no internet access for a whole week, it was also a rude awakening that things doesn’t need to move at warp-speed.
Everything at work was perfectly fine when I returned. Things wouldn’t have change much had I spent the week brooding. By going away and have a disruptive break, I’m now recharged and read to charge!
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