Energy = Life. As someone who has been diagnosed with a serious energy-limiting illness, I have become very aware of the importance of energy. When I originally wrote this post back in 2013, my life was very different. The way I thought about energy was different.
Now I know what it’s like to not have enough energy to be able to function at a basic level. To be constantly housebound because I don’t have enough energy to leave the house, without suffering a massive body crash afterwards.
Energy has taken on a whole new meaning for me now.
Let’s dive into my thoughts on energy, self-awareness, and doing what you love.
Energy
I have only recently started working on my blog again. I couldn’t work on it for a very long time because I didn’t have any energy. I was too sick to do much of anything.
It feels great to be writing again, even though I am still seriously limited in what I can do.
It takes me a really long time to write a new blog post because I struggle to concentrate for long periods of time. Updating old posts is slightly easier, but even that takes a lot of time.
I need to take a lot of breaks to get anything done on my blog.
While blogging doesn’t give me energy, it means a lot to me to be able to do the basics again. My blog has been such a big part of my life since 2010; it has been extremely difficult having to abandon it.
Strangely enough, being sick has reintroduced me to something I used to love when I was younger but had forgotten about. Since being sick, I have embraced my love of Formula 1. I watch all of the races (including the practice sessions) and totally love it.
As my best friend pointed out the other day, I am most energized when I am watching Formula 1 or talking about it. My beautiful cat and Formula 1 are what have gotten me this far, without losing my tiny mind.
What energizes you? What do you love to spend your energy doing?
Self-Awareness
Blogging about personal growth has made me more self-aware. Writing about self-worth, motivation, and how to be a better person inspires me to be a better person.
Writing about self-worth reminds me to love myself despite my illness.
Even though writing uses energy, I find writing very therapeutic. It’s why journal writing is so good for us.
Writing challenges us; it makes us think. It helps us be more aware of our thoughts and feelings. Even the feelings that we are trying to hide from!
When I am writing and blogging, I’m more focused and motivated. My energy levels are still low, but I feel happier and more content.
Are you in touch with your feelings? Even the hard ones. How is your self-awareness going?
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Doing what you love
So many of us struggle to find the time or energy to do what truly makes us feel fulfilled. We struggle with feeling too tired.
The next time you come home and flop on the couch to watch television because you are tired, turn that attitude on its head and ask yourself: Am I on the couch because I feel tired, or am I tired because I’m on the couch?
Decide what fills you with positive energy, and spend as much time as you can using your energy wisely.
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I’ve been slack in my exercise routine (due to an injury) and it’s showing. My energy levels are down and I’m just not feeling like myself. Since it’s my knee that’s injured, I could always do a different form of exercise to get that feeling back.
Hey Thea – good to have you back. I contacted you before I first started blogging about 4 months ago as I’d been reading you for a while. It must have been when youre life started getting too busy for blogging. I’m plugging away, down the road on the Gold Coast, building the blog, working part time with two kids. So it will take a while. But you are right – the more energy you put into something the more energised you become…cheers..kathy
You’re spot on. The days when I don’t make the time to write or blog are always the days when I feel particularly flustered and exhausted by the time T-J comes home.
Hi Kirstie
How are you going? Sorry for taking such a long time to respond.
I am glad you enjoyed the post. I meant to tell you ages ago, I finally found one of those 5 year diaries we talked about a while back. It took months but eventually I found one.
How is the writing going? I hope its all going well.
I look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Cheers
Thea
That’s great to hear about the diary. Not long ago I passed the year mark for filling mine out, I was excited I’d stuck with it long enough to achieve the milestone.
As for my writing it’s going quite well. I’ve been writing a lot of longer short stories and recently had one accepted into an upcoming anthology, so my first traditional publishing credit – yay! Thanks for asking.
Hope everything’s going well for you too.